The abolition of Costa Rica's military 75 years ago has been highly celebrated at home and abroad. Yet the story is more complicated than the myth lets on.
A transnational adoptee born in El Salvador and raised in the United States shared his journey to uncovering his family's truth and finding his voice as a desaparecido.
Under the Shadow looks back on Chomsky’s 1983 lecture at the University of Colorado, as some of the worst aspects of the Reagan administration’s Cold War-era foreign policy ravaged Central America.
British director Alex Cox’s 1987 film Walker, starring Ed Harris, laid an uncompromising critique of U.S. imperialism in Nicaragua. For his “a revolutionary film in a revolutionary context," Cox was blacklisted from the industry.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration illegally funded counter-revolutionary warfare in Nicaragua. As scandal engulfed Washington, the solidarity movement pushed back against intervention.
For transnational adoptees wrenched from El Salvador and Guatemala in the throes of civil war, storytelling and art are powerful tools for navigating identity, dislocation, haunting, and healing.
Disappearance cuts through the Americas. The pain, grief, and resilience of the region's struggles for justice is the focus of our Summer 2024 NACLA Report, "¿Dónde están?"
The 1979 Sandinista victory over the Somoza dictatorship sparked hope across Central America and beyond. Nicaragua quickly became ground zero of a violent U.S.-backed counterrevolutionary war.
