The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...

Anger at neoliberal austerity, Canadian mining corruption, and U.S. imperialism have converged into a powerful protest movement.

The Nasa’s fight against Gran Tierra Energy reveals the links between extraction and armed conflict, and the limitations of the government’s reforms.

A new radical right with links to the dictatorship has made unprecedented gains. So far, the country's strong democracy has tempered its worst impacts.

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan ...

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one driven by neoliberal ideas of modernity and efficiency.

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Despite government neglect and environmental challenges, informal communities along the U.S.-Mexico border find innovative ways to build and maintain their neighborhoods.

"Our vision is defending the interests of workers and a democratic union life." In conversation with a longtime labor journalist, a Mexican union leader puts current worker struggles in context.

A Bartolina Sisa march in Trinidad, Bolivia in 2010. (Soman, Wikimedia Commons) When Bolivian campesino movements took to the streets last year against the country’s coup government, they were ...

On July 5, 2012, the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He ...

Many Central American youth who entered the United States during the Obama and Trump administrations are still waiting for resolution of their Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.