Paramilitarism

The June 21 presidential runoff will feature starkly different approaches to the growing power of armed and criminal groups.

Forty years after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s ongoing crisis exposes the devastating legacy of permanent foreign intervention.

[CLOSED] NACLA is currently accepting proposals for our Winter 2026 issue on state violence, insecurity, and the political production of “criminality.”

Haiti’s gang coalition Viv Ansanm is powered by thousands of child combatants drawn by hunger, displacement, and a century of foreign intervention.

In a nation long plagued by impunity, the historic conviction of Colombia’s powerful former president is testing the country’s judicial independence and raising the stakes for truth and accountability.

A recent violent and destructive march calling for the expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana demonstrates the vehement anti-Haitianism and rising fascism prevalent in the Dominican Republic.

For transmasculine activists uprooted from the lands and waters they called home, embroidery and poetry become practices for expressing nostalgia and building community in Bogotá.

The discovery in historic neighborhood Comuna 13, a neighborhood known for its art as much as its dark past, has reignited the debate over paramilitarism in the country.

Apartheid and genocide in the occupied territories hold up a mirror to the racist exclusion of Haitians and Black people in the Dominican Republic. Anti-imperialist solidarity is imperative.

Violence is on the rise in Zapatista territory. As an Indigenous “peacemaker” becomes the latest victim, communities call for justice, not militarization.

Twenty-one years after the Bojayá Massacre destroyed their town, survivors in the community of Bellavista Nueva in northwestern Colombia recount their story on their own terms.  

NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on militarism in the Americas. Send us your pitches by April 21, 2023.