Ecuador’s Paro Protests Autocracy, Not Diesel
President Noboa escalates repression and lawfare against protesters, targeting Indigenous people and water and land defenders.
Mexico Can do More for Migrants
Though constrained by U.S. threats, Mexico’s history demonstrates it can—and must—do more to protect the dignity of migrants at home and abroad.
Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border
Reflections on empire, genocide, and the violence that has come home to roost.
Learning from the Los Angeles Protests
In the wake of widespread protests against deportations that began in Los Angeles earlier this month, left and feminist movements must develop a future facing vision to combat fascism.
Regímenes que le apuestan a la otredad
En la Guatemala de la era de la guerra civil, la Policía Nacional recopiló álbumes fotográficos de todas las personas que etiquetó como subversivas. Hoy, ese legado de criminalización sigue vigente.
“Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth”
In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.
El Salvador, No Place for Asylum Seekers
Deported from the United States without due process, asylum seekers now face political persecution and deadly conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prisons as the Trump administration outsources cruelty to the Bukele regime.
Call For Pitches | Boomerangs of Empire: The Americas as Colonial Laboratory
[CLOSED] NACLA is currently accepting proposals for our Winter 2025 issue on the Americas as both site and system of imperial experimentation and return. Send us your pitches by May 2, 2025.
A New No-Man’s-Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba (Review)
Esther Whitfield's book examines how art produced in Guantánamo transcends cultural and linguistic divides to find common ground, reimagining empathy and resistance against political forces.
The U.S. War on Migrants Gets Help from El Salvador
El Salvador's offer to house deportees and U.S. citizens in its infamous prisons – for profit – signals a new and troubling escalation in the criminalization of migration.
Trump and the Threat of Domestic Militarization
Mexico's experience with the militarization of prohibition and migration is defined by violence and displacement.
The U.S. Is Helping Brazilian Police Kill
Brazil’s highly militarized policing disproportionately impacts poor and racialized communities. By providing funding and training, the United States has helped exacerbate the crisis.
