The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...

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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.

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan ...

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 ...

A new radical right with links to the dictatorship has made unprecedented gains. So far, the country's strong democracy has tempered its worst impacts.

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one driven by neoliberal ideas of modernity and efficiency.

On October 23, approximately 500 police officers and riot police descended on a road blockade in El Estor and fired tear gas at the peaceful demonstrations. For more than two weeks, Maya Q’eqchi’ ...

This article is Part II of a series in partnership with Earthworks on oil and gas impacts in Latin America. Read Part I. With record-setting fires in the Amazon dominating headlines in recent years, ...

On July 5, 2012, the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He ...

This past September President Joe Biden renewed the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, thereby extending into the 62 nd year the regimen of punitive sanctions. The policy, as Assistant Secretary of ...