As environmental crimes threaten Indigenous communities in the Amazon, their struggles are ignored by a humanitarian system ...

Many call Gorgona Island “the witch” as it often vanishes from the sight of Afro-descendant communities living 35 kilometres away, in the town of Bazán, on the Colombian Pacific Coast. Although no ...

Between the 1930 and 1960s, subregions of the Magdalena Medio in Colombia’s Antioquia and Bolivar departments were known as “Shell’s paradise.” I quickly learned why when I visited the region in March ...

When Brazil’s far right former president Jair Bolsonaro came to power in January of 2019, student activists were the first to mount a large-scale resistance. In May 2019, they organized the “Tsunami” ...

Marcelo Pérez Pérez knew that his enemies wanted him dead. The priest in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, had been receiving threats for a decade, thanks to his work of constantly decrying ...

At the reproductive healthcare center Morada Violeta in Mexico City, midwives are seen as defenders of women and gender expansive people’s rights and autonomy. They offer personalized and politicized ...

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the collective scapegoating and mass deportation of Haitians for political gain lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Bertin M ...

“We have to extinguish the issue before it goes out of control,” says Lieutenant Colonel Medardo Reyes Pego as he walks the narrow halls of Honduras’ headquarters for military intelligence. He’s about ...

When I started my college education in Peru in the late 1990s, a professor who had spent his early youth as a committed “card-carrying” leftist militant shared a seemingly popular old joke: “How do ...

Protestors banging empty plastic bottles came out onto the streets of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo last May, when the city ran short of fresh drinking water. The authorities mixed diluted ...

For every decision Venezuela’s opposition has made in recent months, the far-rightist María Corina Machado has had the last word. Center-right leaders, meanwhile, have ended up capitulating to her ...

“This is contamination, Señor Presidente.” Guillermo D.Christy directly addresses Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as he holds a slab of dissolving concrete up to his handheld camera.