North American Congress on Latin America (Nacla)

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is a non-profit organization with a left-leaning perspective, established in 1966. Its mission is to offer insights into developments in Latin America and the interactions between Latin America and the United States. NACLA is particularly recognized for its publication, the NACLA Report on the Americas, which is released quarterly. In addition to this report, the organization also produces books, anthologies, and pamphlets aimed at educators and activists. Although the print version of the NACLA Report was temporarily halted in 2015, it made a comeback in May 2016 under the Routledge brand, which is part of Taylor and Francis. For over five decades, NACLA has served as a vital resource for English-speaking journalists, policymakers, activists, students, and researchers both in North America and around the globe, providing them with valuable news and analysis related to Latin America.

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“I’m Still Here” (Review)

3 weeks ago | nacla.org | Luiz Antônio Araujo

Military dictatorships in South America’s Southern Cone provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable moments in the so-called political cinema. I’m Still Here, the new Brazilian feature film directed by Walter Salles Jr., gains additional significance when viewed through this lens.
Rio’s Samba Parade Spotlights Trans Rights

1 month ago | nacla.org | Constance Malleret

Carnival preparations are in full swing in Rio de Janeiro this week. Costumes are frantically sewn in secret warehouses, sweaty street parties fill the city center with music and glitter, and in the suburbs, samba schools are running rigorous rehearsals to perfect the exuberant and carefully choreographed parade that they will put on in the Sambadrome.
The Life of a Trans Mexican Revolutionary, in Drag

2 months ago | nacla.org | Olivia Ferrari

In the cozy ambience of Agora Cafe, drag artists in costume read poetry, perform stand-up comedy, sing, and dance, for an audience strewn around the cafe at tables and on the carpet. On this particular night in January, the coffee shop and queer community space in Mexico City hosted a show dedicated to the legacy of Amelio Robles, a colonel during the Mexican Revolution and one of the country’s earliest transgender icons.
The Global Pesticide Pushers in Latin America

2 months ago | nacla.org | Jimmy Langman

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a booming lowland city near cattle ranches and thriving soy fields, I visit Campo Verde, a small, unassuming shop catering to small farmers at the Abasto Market. I scan the shelves and find at least a dozen of the world’s most toxic chemicals. One liter of Thodorn 600, or methamidophos, produced by Todo Agricola S.A., a Peru-based manufacturer, costs less than $10.
Debí TiRAR MáS FOToS (Review)

Jan 24, 2025 | nacla.org | Cruz Bonlarron Martínez |Cruz Martinez

Bad Bunny's highly anticipated album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (I should have taken more Pictures) has sent shockwaves throughout Latin America and the diaspora, conquering stereos across the hemisphere. It seems the artist has succeeded where Bolívar failed: uniting Latin America through perreo.
This Spanglish Bookstore In New York Is Reclaiming Bushwick's Sense Of Latinidad

Jan 17, 2025 | nacla.org | Victoria Mortimer

Although María Herrón is a native New Yorker, she understands what it feels like not to belong in this tough city. The daughter of a single mother who emigrated from Cuba in the 1960s, Herrón grew up in a “relatively white neighborhood,” just north of the Bronx, where her mother ran a food shop. “I got into a lot of trouble as a kid just for saying coño—and I didn’t understand why,” Herrón, the founder of Mil Mundos, a bilingual bookstore in Bushwick, recalls.
The U.S. Is Helping Brazilian Police Kill

Jan 7, 2025 | nacla.org | Joseph Bouchard

On November 5, São Paulo’s Military Police shot and killed a four-year-old boy, Ryan da Silva, in the coastal city of Santos in southeastern Brazil. The boy was killed during an operation in his neighborhood, a community that has long suffered from heavy-handed police interventions under the guise of combating crime. Nine months prior, his father was killed in the same place, by the same police unit.
El campus en rebelión por Palestina

Dec 10, 2024 | nacla.org | Manuel Gonzalez |Manuel González |Camilo Godoy Pichón

Este artículo fue publicado en inglés en la edición de invierno de 2024 de nuestra revista trimestal NACLA Report. A fines de abril de 2024, mientras el genocidio israelí de largo plazo contra el pueblo palestino intensificó, las protestas en contra de la matanza llego a los pasillos universitarios, primero en Estados Unidos y luego en todo el mundo.
A Narrow Frente Amplio Victory in Uruguay

Nov 27, 2024 | nacla.org | Debbie Sharnak

In November of 1984, when open elections were held in Uruguay for the first time after more than a decade of dictatorship, Yamandú Orsi was 17 years old. He remembers the democratic exercise as “a breath of fresh air” that “flooded through me, and there it has remained.” Orsi proceeded to get involved in local politics, and went on to become a high school history teacher in his hometown of Canelones, about an hour outside of Montevideo, before entering local politics in 2015.
Resistencias a los avances de Israel desde arriba y abajo

Nov 25, 2024 | nacla.org | Raúl Zibechi

Este artículo fue publicado en inglés en la edición de invierno de 2024 de nuestra revista trimestal NACLA Report. Tras cinco meses de la guerra de Israel contra el pueblo palestino luego del 7 de octubre de 2023, el Ministerio de Defensa de Chile anunció la exclusión de empresas israelíes de la Feria Internacional del Aire y del Espacio (FIDAE), la más grande de América Latina.