Hilary Goodfriend

Mexico City

Contributing Writer at North American Congress on Latin America (Nacla)

Contributor at Freelance

Becaria posdoctoral @ Instituto de Geografía UNAM. Writing in @NACLA, @jacobinmag & more

Articles

From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Interview by Daniel Denvir This is part two of a three-part series on the history and present of Central America with Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar. The interview picks up where we left off in part one amid the revolutionary armed struggles against military oligarchic regimes, struggles that took off in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Those regimes responded with brutal violence against the people aided and abetted by the United States.
Oligarchy, Empire, and Revolution in Central America

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Interview by Daniel Denvir This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in conversation with Daniel Denvir on The Dig, a Jacobin Radio podcast. It is also a history of American near-empire, tracing its impact from the mid-nineteenth century onward.
Democracy in Central America Is on the Brink

2 months ago | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

The last fifteen years have seen tremendous political upheaval in Central America. El Salvador has fallen under a repressive, authoritarian regime, while Honduras has liberated itself from one; President Daniel Ortega has increasingly isolated himself from former Sandinista allies in Nicaragua; and in Guatemala, a popular tide of outrage against an entrenched ruling class saw an unlikely social democrat take the presidency.
Central American Democracy in Crisis

Nov 27, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Skip to main content Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. BiographiesHilary Goodfriend is a postdoctoral researcher at the Geography Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.
The US Has No Business Telling Mexico Not to Reform Its Judiciary | Common Dreams

Oct 2, 2024 | commondreams.org | Hilary Goodfriend

This week Mexico's former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, handed over the reins to Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally in his Morena party and the country's first female head of state. While López Obrador is leaving office with soaring approval ratings, and has overseen significant reductions in poverty and unemployment, recent articles and op-eds use terms like "authoritarian" and "autocratic" to describe his legacy.
Let Mexico Reform its Judiciary

Oct 1, 2024 | progressive.org | Hilary Goodfriend |Alexander Main

This week Mexico's former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) handed over the reins to Claudia Sheinbaum, a close ally in his Morena party and the country's first female head of state. While López Obrador is leaving office with soaring approval ratings, and has overseen significant reductions in poverty and unemployment, recent articles and op-eds use terms like "authoritarian" and "autocratic" to describe his legacy.
Alexander Main

Oct 1, 2024 | commondreams.org | Hilary Goodfriend

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The Democrats Want a Bigger, More Beautiful Border Wall

Sep 24, 2024 | rsn.org | Hilary Goodfriend

Donald Trump’s cruel border policies sparked an outpouring of popular compassion for migrants, which Democrats made central to their 2020 platform. Now the Biden administration and the Kamala Harris campaign have embraced Trump’s xenophobic premises. Throughout Donald Trump’s 2016–20 presidential term, migrant justice was a centerpiece of liberal and left opposition to the Republican agenda.
The Democrats Want a Bigger, More Beautiful Border Wall

Sep 24, 2024 | jacobin.com | Hilary Goodfriend

Throughout Donald Trump’s 2016–20 presidential term, migrant justice was a centerpiece of liberal and left opposition to the Republican agenda. The public reacted with genuine horror to the Trump administration’s spectacles of racist, anti-migrant cruelty. Images and audio of infants and children separated from their parents in US detention centers sparked outcry against “kids in cages,” and protesters massed spontaneously at US airports when the Muslim ban went into effect.
The tech bro president ruling by force

Aug 25, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Hilary Goodfriend

On 1st June, Nayib Bukele was sworn in for a second term as president of El Salvador, the first to serve a consecutive term since the infamous general Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, whose bloody tenure (1931-1944) was bookended by military coup d’états. Bukele defied no fewer than six articles of the constitution that expressly prohibit presidential reelection.