Two years on, far-right President Daniel Noboa’s prison crackdown—characterized by militarization, corruption, and deadly violence—has yielded no results.
In this article, John Henry Murdy looks at the human toll of the policy.
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on World Cup activism and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Read as well about Peru's elections, U.S. strikes, migrant deaths in ICE detention, Kast's reforms in Chile, and more.
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📚Óscar Martínez’s profile of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele unmasks an authoritarian leader who hangs on to power through propaganda, gang pacts, and repression.
Read Sonja Wolf's review 👇
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From the Spring 2026 Print Issue 📕🔥
Phil Neff writes about the lessons learned from documenting human rights abuses in El Salvador between 1980-1992, and why they are more important than ever.
Read the article 👇
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⚽️📄As we near the FIFA World Cup, the 2026 “Save the World Cup Act” Stirs Up Hidden Histories of Latino Immigration Activism during USA ‘94.
Read Celso Thomas Castilho's story on the long history of Latino communities, protests, and fútbol.
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Check out this week's newsletter for original reporting
on conservation in Colombia, Mexico's "cartel" crisis, and human rights activism in El Salvador. Read as well about Peruvian elections, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Venezuelan mining, and more.
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Drugs. They have been the boogeyman across Latin America for decades. An excuse that has led to so much violence. And Trump is turning up the temperature.
In the newest episode of @undertheshadow.bsky.social, Michael Fox dives into the U.S.-backed drug war in Mexico 📻
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From the Bracero crisis of 1954 to today's cartel wars, Mexico has framed subordination as partnership, though history suggests that room to maneuver exists—albeit within limits set by Washington.
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In 1847, US troops attacked the Churubusco fort outside of Mexico City. The bullet holes are still there. Today, it's the home of #Mexico's Museum of Interventions, a living testament to the US invasions that would steal more than half of Mexican territory @therealnews.com @nacla-report.bsky.social
Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on Argentina's glaciers, Brazil's dictatorship, and Venezuelans in Chile. Read as well about far-right Chilean President José Antonio Kast's tumultuous first three weeks in power.
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In January, Venezuelans in Chile briefly celebrated the fall of Nicolás Maduro, but many now fear a harsher climate for migrants as the country shifts to the right.
Read the story by @solotraveller.bsky.social on nacla.org
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The spring issue JUST DROPPED and it is 🔥!
This issue examines the consolidation of a hemispheric bordering regime, tracing how border violence has moved from the margins to the center of political life across the Americas.
Guest edited by Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Dawn Marie Paley, and P.S.D.
An Indigenous man in Brazil endured torture and forced labor for 19 months in a dictatorship “concentration camp”. 55 years later, his son seeks justice.
Read the story by Isabel Seta for @apublica.org
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on the FBI in Ecuador, memory battles in Argentina, and Javier Milei's war against the working class. Read as well about Argentina's dictatorship, Maduro's trial, Cuba's blackout, the investigation of Petro, and more.
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As Argentina marks 50 years since the beginning of its last bloody dictatorship, a feminist fútbol club in Buenos Aires keeps the memory of the disappeared alive as the government fosters negationism.
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on Guatemala's gangs and the stigmatization of the coca leaf. Read as well about Cuba's crisis, tensions between Ecuador and Colombia, Salvadoran prisons, Kast's early policies in Chile, and more.
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To keep up to date on the Nuestra América Convoy and the efforts to break the U.S. siege, follow @ProgIntl and @codepink and visit nuestraamericaconvoy.org
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
NACLA is proud to join hundreds of organizers, healthcare workers, veterans, artists, journalists, student union members, and community activists in bringing much needed humanitarian aid to the island.
NACLA is mobilizing to Cuba. 🇨🇺
This week, NACLISTAs will be taking part in the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, a humanitarian mission delivering critical supplies to a people under siege.
For decades, NACLA has covered the U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba—and its devastating effects.
The World Health Organization’s recent refusal to reclassify coca leaf is yet another failure to understand the plant’s cultural significance.
Read Linda Farthing's latest for NACLA on why coca leaf remains unjustly stigmatized:
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Trump rolled out a new phase in his plan for Latin America last weekend. He met with allies and launched a new right-wing alliance with the goal of attacking so-called cartels. And they are already taking action in Ecuador. @undertheshadow.bsky.social @nacla-report.bsky.social @ceprdc.bsky.social
The Barrio 18's January attacks sought to destabilize Guatemala to benefit well-connected political elites who have challenged the government of President Bernardo Arévalo.
Read Simon Granovsky-Larsen and Samuel Noriega's analysis for NACLA👇
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on Colombia's elections, abortion in Argentina, and Trump's vision for Cuba. Read as well about Kast's inauguration, Haiti's crisis, Ecuador's crackdown, the "Donroe Doctrine," and more.
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Amid a regional right-wing turn, Colombia's left consolidated its political project, positioning itself well for the upcoming presidential elections. 🗳️
Read Cruz Bonlarron Martínez's coverage for NACLA
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Check out this week's newsletter for reporting on ICE in Minneapolis, Guatemala's gangs, and an Indigenous council's struggle against a mine. Read as well about Cuba's blackouts, U.S. military conferences, pressure on Venezuela, Caso Ayotzinapa, and more.
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The situation in Cuba is dire. It hasn’t been this bad decades. And it’s on purpose. This is a humanitarian crisis, made in the United States, with the goal of overthrowing the Cuban gov. Latest episode @undertheshadow.bsky.social @nacla-report.bsky.social
Philipe Sands’ book on the attempts to hold a Nazi leader and Chilean dictator accountable provide lessons for today’s era in which the flouting of international law has become routine.
Read Carole Concha Bell's review 🔖
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