About Us
The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to examine and critique U.S. imperialism and political, economic, and military intervention in the Western hemisphere. In an evolving political and media landscape, we continue to work toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression, injustice, and economic and political subordination.
For more than 50 years, NACLA has been a leading source of English-language research and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean. Our mission has always been to publish historically and politically informed research and analysis on the region and its complex and changing relationships with the United States. We use the NACLA Report on the Americas, our web platform nacla.org, as well as public events and programming as tools for education, advocacy, dialogue, and solidarity. Our work aims to assist readers in interpreting the most pressing issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, and their connections with U.S. policy, to help further movement struggles throughout the hemisphere.
Our mission is guided by our organizational values. NACLA offers a forum for debate among a range of voices and perspectives on the Left. As we enter our sixth decade, we maintain an editorial focus on issues related to political economy, race and indigeneity, gender/sexuality, and climate and the environment. NACLA also provides a platform for voices from the region, and has made a commitment to emphasize Black, Indigenous, Latinx, LGBTQI+, and feminist perspectives.
For more about NACLA and our work, read our history.
NACLA is an independent nonprofit organization. We subscribe to standards of editorial independence outlined by the Institute for Nonprofit News:
- Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.
- We accept gifts and grants from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
- Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
- We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization.
OUR PARTNERSHIPS
NACLA has been housed at New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) since 2012. The partnership builds on shared commitments to cultivating research and scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean and engaging wider communities with information and resources on the region. NACLA remains editorially independent.
The quarterly NACLA Report on the Americas is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. This partnership, beginning in 2016, enabled NACLA to remain in print at a time when it otherwise faced the difficult decision of discontinuing magazine publishing.
EARLY YEARS
The first issue of NACLA Newsletter, the publication that was to become NACLA Report on the Americas, rolled off a mimeograph machine in New York in February 1967. The North American Congress on Latin America, its fledgling publisher, had just come together as a coalition of “New Left” student activists.
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NACLA Style and Submission Guidelines: Online
We welcome contributions from academics, activists, students, and journalists covering political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean, issues affecting U.S. Latinx communities, and U.S. policy in the hemisphere.
Is NACLA still in print?
Yes! 50 years and counting. Longtime followers of NACLA’s work will recall that the print magazine suspended operations in 2014, but returned from the hiatus in 2016 in full force. Starting in 2016, NACLA’s quarterly magazine is published by Taylor & Francis.
I am thinking about subscribing. How does it work?
Beginning in 2022, when you sign up for a one-year subscription, you will receive the next four new issues of the NACLA Report. Previously, our subscriptions were for the four issues published within the calendar year in which you took out a subscription.
Why is the subscription so expensive?
Staying in print all these years has come with costs. When we faced a choice between no longer publishing the Report in print or partnering with a third party publisher, Taylor & Francis, we chose the latter, which has meant higher rates. We are pleased, however, to offer student subscriptions at a discounted price. Your subscription allows NACLA to remain in print, cover editorial costs, and provide the fiercely independent, deeply reported, and politically progressive analysis of the Americas that NACLA has always stood for.
Why doesn’t NACLA publish articles from the magazine online?
Our print publishing agreement with Taylor & Francis does not allow us to reproduce magazine articles on our website. However, a few articles from each issue will be available open access for a limited time after the magazine’s publication. We will share these open access articles on our website, on social media, and in our newsletter. Read the latest here.
Is there a digital subscription option?
At this time there is no digital subscription to the NACLA Report. (Sign up for our newsletter if you want to hear from NACLA regularly online!)
I subscribe to the NACLA Report, and I have an issue with/question about my subscription. What should I do?
Please send us an email with any questions or concerns at info@nacla.org.
How can I access NACLA’s archives?
NACLA’s full physical archive is housed at Tamiment Library at New York University’s Bobst Library. As of 2016, digital versions of print articles are archived on the website of our publisher, Taylor & Francis, accessible via an institutional subscription. If you are a student or researcher seeking access to a specific article, send us an email at info@nacla.org.
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