Newly declassified CIA documents reveal the links between Mexico’s contemporary surveillance state and a uniquely close Cold ...

The battle over Temporary Protected Status provides a window into the class, racial, and political divisions within the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States.

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Ni Una Menos movement. Understanding the tensions that mark these moments of intense rearrangements and changes in increasingly militarized capitalism is ...

Forty years after surviving state violence, Maya Achi women return to court to demand justice, challenging a long legacy of impunity for crimes against humanity. Paulina Ixtapá Alvarado, a Maya Achi ...

After the murder of their leader, communities in the Aguán Valley have continued their fight against corruption, impunity, and the pollution of their lands. It's a blistering hot day in the town of ...

Community-based governance structures put decision-making about Ixlán de Juarez’s forests into local hands, creating economic opportunity and reversing centuries of deforestation in the town. Leer ...

President Gustavo Petro is leading the way in promoting a fossil fuel phase-out in South America and beyond, but there are challenges and contradictions in Colombia’s actions at home. This is the ...

Artist Germa Machuca uses her body as an altar and guiding light to illuminate the connections across anti-trans and anti-Indigenous violence in Peru. This piece appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of ...

Deported from the United States without due process, asylum seekers now face political persecution and deadly conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prisons as the Trump administration outsources cruelty to ...