militarism

January 8, 2024
Nina Ebner and Gabriel Antonio Solis

As corporate boosters push to shift supply chains from China to northern Mexico, military expansion in the borderlands secures manufacturing zones for transnational capital.

January 3, 2024
Markus Hochmüller & Markus-Michael Müller

Following the abolition of the Army, narratives celebrating Central America’s most peaceful nation have masked a militarized policing model shaped by U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency.

December 28, 2023
Diana Ramos-Gutiérrez with Myrna Pagán

A Puerto Rican demilitarization activist reflects on the decades-long struggle to urge U.S. forces to withdraw from the island and the ongoing challenges Viequenses face today.

November 26, 2023
Dawn Marie Paley

Understanding structures of domination helps us better support efforts to transform them. Read more in "Militarized Democracy Refracted," the Winter 2023 issue of the NACLA Report.

November 9, 2023
John Lindsay-Poland

Legal U.S. firearm sales to Latin American countries are on the rise, arming violent actors in Mexico, Guatemala, and elsewhere. U.S. gun export policies need more than tweaking.

October 24, 2023
Amy Li Baksh

In the throes of the Cold War, a tiny Caribbean island dared to wage a revolutionary experiment. As the Revo imploded, the United States invaded.

September 26, 2023
Jemima Pierre

As the United States and its allies push renewed foreign intervention, the uses and abuses of the first Black republic as a testing ground of imperialism offer stark warnings. Haiti still struggles to be free.

September 26, 2023
Shalini Puri

Forty years after the U.S. invasion, centering Caribbean perspectives on the rise and demise of a revolutionary movement holds the possibility of stepping out from empire’s shadow and imagining alternative futures.

July 24, 2023
Dawn Marie Paley

As expropriations for the controversial megaproject accelerate, impacted communities assess the security and geopolitical implications.

July 10, 2023
Raúl Silva Telles do Valle and Biviany Rojas Garzón

Under Bolsonaro, environmental crimes skyrocketed amid a slide toward authoritarianism. Now, defending the rainforest also means rescuing Brazil’s democratic rule of law.

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