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The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...
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The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan ...
Anger at neoliberal austerity, Canadian mining corruption, and U.S. imperialism have converged into a powerful protest movement.
The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.
Labor unions and social movements across Peru, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Mexico have taken to the streets in mass combative struggle against decades of neoliberal policies that seek to convert ...
The road to achieving sustainable energy in Puerto Rico should not be paved by bulldozing agricultural lands and coastal plains.
Public sector workers march on Salvadoran Unionist Day in October 2022. (Claudia Díaz-Combs) Twice a week, Francisco wakes up early, gathers his bottles, barrels, and water jugs, and drives a mile to ...
Extensive territory, water resources, and port access have made the southeastern state of Yucatán a major player in Mexico's pork industry.
New expressions of ultranationalist violence censoring Black women and migrants harken back to the Trujillo dictatorship. Anyone deemed a threat to Dominican values is a potential target.
Mexico is on track to eliminate the use of Glysophate by 2024, but still authorizes pesticides, including Paraquat and Dicamba, that are banned in other countries.
The April 12, 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez marked a turning point for Venezuela, the Americas, and the larger Left. Twenty years later, Chávez’s successor Nicolás Maduro remains in power, but amid ...