south america

May 3, 2021
Alejandra Dinegro Martínez

Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori face off in a polarized second round. Beyond the candidates, a national popular-rural bloc clamors to be heard.

May 3, 2021
Alejandra Dinegro Martínez

Pedro Castillo y Keiko Fujimori se enfrentan en una segunda vuelta polarizada. Más allá de los candidatos, un bloque nacional popular-rural clama a ser escuchado.

November 25, 2019

A collection of NACLA's coverage spanning more than a decade of Evo Morales's time in power to help contextualize turmoil in Bolivia. 

September 23, 2019
Jeffery R. Webber

Political theorist Mabel Thwaites Rey discusses the rise and decline of progressive governments in Latin America, dynamics that spurred the “end of the cycle,” and characteristics of the new Right.

September 10, 2019
Jacquelyn Kovarik

After two decades battling impunity, Indigenous Peruvian women who survived Alberto Fujimori’s forced sterilization campaign finally have their say.

August 13, 2019
Alanna Elder

A controversial energy deal and behind-closed-doors negotiations symbolize for many a “surrender” of Paraguayan sovereignty to Brazil and harken back to the dictatorship-era corruption that gave rise to the Itaipu dam.

October 19, 2018
Fred Rosen and Laura Weiss

NACLA's editors introduce NACLA's 50th anniversary issue

December 19, 2016
Bryan Pitts, Rosemary Joyce, Russell Sheptak, Kregg Hetherington, Marco Castillo & Rafael Ioris

A reflection on the ousters of presidents Manuel Zelaya, Fernando Lugo, and Dilma Rousseff—and the emergence of the “parliamentary” or “soft” coup as a new technique to thwart the consolidation of social and economic rights in the region.

April 22, 2013
Nicole Fabricant

Nation-states in the Global South have historically contributed the least to carbon-dioxide emissions but are especially vulnerable to the consequences of climatic shifts because of the damage wrought by extractive industries and the limited resources to cope with such damage.

January 28, 2013

Media in Latin America have traditionally been consolidated into the hands of a few wealthy families and large media conglomerates. Over the last decade and a half, however, several governments in the region, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay, have moved to democratize media.

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