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Remembering the U.S. Invasion of Panama, 35 Years Later
O n December 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with tens of thousands of troops. It was the largest U.S. invasion since Vietnam. The first U.S. military action since the fall of the Berlin Wall one month before. The testing ground for the Iraq wars.
Remembering Chile’s U.S.-backed Coup, 50 Years On | NACLA
O n September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in a CIA-supported coup, installing a ruthless 17-year dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the U.S.-backed military junta killed or forcibly disappeared more than 3,000 people and tortured more than 40,000, the country became the laboratory for neoliberal policy with ...
Portraits of Black Politics and Resistance in Brazil | NACLA
Leia este artigo em português. Translated to English by Joyce Silva Fernandes. B lack people make up the majority in Brazil. Over half of the nation’s 215 million inhabitants—56 percent or about 120 million people—are Afro-Brazilian, making the country home to the largest Black population in the Americas.
In Uruguay, Struggle for Memory and Accountability Continues
O n May 20, 2023, thousands of Uruguayans marched in dozens of places across the country and beyond in one of the largest commemorations of the disappeared since the annual Marcha del Silencio began 28 years ago. The march first took place in 1996 in memory of Uruguayan politicians Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutierrez Ruiz, who …
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy …
Oct 25, 2024 · R ecently, at a hostel in Cochabamba, Bolivia, I launched into a tirade about the lack of any significant social services or safety net in my home country of the United States, services that countless other countries offer in abundance. My interlocutor, a German woman, made a pointed comment: “I see what you mean, but other countries don’t pay for the world’s freedom the way the U.S ...
The Campus Rebellion for Palestine | NACLA
Dec 11, 2024 · Leer este artículo en Español. I n April, as Israel’s longstanding genocide against the Palestinian people continued to intensify, protests against the carnage reached the halls of universities, first in the United States and then around the world. Israel’s unrelenting atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank since October 2023, with the …
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A Narrow Frente Amplio Victory in Uruguay. A former teacher and provincial mayor won a close runoff vote in Uruguay, signaling a return to the social welfare politics of the center-left Frente Amplio coalition.
To Exist is to Resist ¡Viva Palestina Libre! | NACLA
Sara Awartani is an interdisciplinary historian whose research and teaching focus on 20th-century U.S. social movements, interracial solidarities, policing, and American global power, with special attention to Latinx and Arab American radicalisms.. Pablo Seward Delaporte is an anthropologist whose work integrates anthropological, decolonial, and feminist theories of …
Trump and the Latin American Left | NACLA
Dec 6, 2024 · Leer este artículo en Español. I n mid-November, during a trip to participate in the APEC and G20 leaders’ summits in Latin America, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the inauguration of a mega port in Chancay, Peru. The huge deep-water infrastructure project, built with $1.3 billion in Chinese investment, is set to be complemented by a bi-oceanic railway that will connect Chancay to ...