Caribbean

June 18, 2021
Gelien Matthews

At the University of the West Indies, the campaign to rename Milner Hall highlights a decolonial struggle for historic reparations.

April 28, 2021
Roberto Carlos Garcia

In an interview, lawyer-advocate Rosa Iris Diendome discusses her work defending the citizenship status of Dominicans of Haitian descent, which filmmaker Michèle Stephenson chronicles in her recent documentary Stateless.

August 20, 2020
Kasmine D. Forbes

Increasing community control and ownership of crops like cassava can ensure economic and social welfare.

March 16, 2020
Pietra Brown

Blooms of smelly and unsightly sargassum seaweed have impacted the tourism industry across the Caribbean. Now, solutions must balance environmental factors and local livelihoods.

September 19, 2019
Melanie La Rosa

Citizen-led solar initiatives in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria remedied immediate local challenges and forged increased resilience using sustainable power, serving as an important example in clean energy development.

June 11, 2018
Laura Weiss, Marisol LeBrón, Michelle Chase

NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue, Eye of the Storm: Colonialism, Capitalism, Climate in Caribbean.

February 16, 2018
Bret Gustafson

How U.S.-backed military interventions in the Caribbean have been tied up with fossil fuel extractivism.

October 19, 2017
Angel “Monxo” López Santiago

In the wake of Hurricanes Maria and Irma, the Caribbean must escape the trappings of modern-day colonialism and seek out its own kinds of sovereignties.

September 26, 2017
Marisol LeBrón

How reconsidering the history of policing in Puerto Rico complicates our understandings of the island's colonial relationship with the United States

September 15, 2017
Kevin Edmonds

From climate change to dependence on tourism, the Caribbean today faces a variety of existential threats. 

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