Guatemala: Peasant Massacre
"It took just a few minutes of solid, frenzied gun-fire for the Guatemalan Army to clear the village square at ...
Black Central Americans in the Struggle Against AIDS
The Garifuna and other Afro-Central American communities face a disproportionate rate of HIV infection, yet little data on these infection ...
Life in a Border Town Marred by Tension
The part of the border that divides the Dominican Republic from Haiti on the southern coast of the island ...
Disappeared but Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict
On August 31, a tribunal in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, sentenced former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj to 150 years in prison ...
Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina
About two years ago, the global media discovered "paco," a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine that was ravaging the ...
Exporting Gas and Importing Democracy in Bolivia
A NACLA investigation funded by the Samuel Chavkin Fund for Investigative Journalism finds that U.S. "democracy promotion" programs in Bolivia ...
Homeless Movement Gains Ground
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most dynamic mass movements. In the ...
Brazil’s Prison Debacle
In the early afternoon of February 18, 2001, during family visiting hours, the biggest prison rebellion in Brazil’s history began ...
