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The Making of Cuba’s Crisis

NACLA editors revisited decades of coverage and curated this selection of articles to help readers understand how Cuba’s current crisis has been years in the making.
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The Donroe Coalition | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 8

The Donroe Coalition | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 8

Last weekend, Donald Trump met with right-wing allies from Latin America to kick off a new military coalition to attack so-called drug cartels and push his agenda up and down
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Regime Change and Real Estate in Cuba

Trump's pressure campaign could create an opening for him to develop hotels and real estate in Cuba, a goal he has pursued for decades.
Colombia’s Left Has A Strong Showing in the Legislative Elections

Colombia’s Left Has A Strong Showing in the Legislative Elections

Amid a regional right-wing turn, the country’s left consolidated its political project, positioning itself well for the upcoming presidential elections.
Faith and Body: New Battle Over Abortion in Argentina

Faith and Body: New Battle Over Abortion in Argentina

Reproductive rights in Argentina face increased obstacles as the administration of Javier Milei emboldens anti-rights groups and politicians. 
En Guatemala, un Consejo Indígena lucha contra una compañía minera

En Guatemala, un Consejo Indígena lucha contra una compañía minera

Tras dos muertes y acusaciones legales fraudulentas, el pueblo Ch’orti’ sigue luchando para expulsar un proyecto minero que ha contaminado sus tierras.
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia. (Knopf)

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Review)

Philipe Sands’ book on the attempts to hold a Nazi leader and Chilean dictator accountable provide lessons for today’s era in which the flouting of international law has become routine.
Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in the U.S.A. | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 7

Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in the U.S.A. | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 7

The situation in Cuba is dire. It hasn’t been this bad for decades. And it’s on purpose. This is a humanitarian crisis, made in the United States
National Civil Police units are presented to President Bernardo Arévalo on January 17, 2024. (Gobierno de Guatemala, Public Domain)

Of Presidential Power and Prison Riots in Guatemala

A wave of violence inside and outside prisons drew attention to President Bernardo Arévalo's fragile political balancing act between the gangs and a corrupt political class.

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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia. (Knopf)

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Review)

Philipe Sands’ book on the attempts to hold a Nazi leader and Chilean dictator accountable provide lessons for today’s era in which the flouting of international law has become routine.
Rotos corazones: amor y política en los setenta (Review)

Rotos corazones: amor y política en los setenta (Review)

Cosse centers the role of love in her study of armed leftist movements in Argentina, unearthing how gender, sexuality, and subjectivity shaped political uprising—and its defeat.
Mexican Watchdogs The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s. (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)

Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s (Review)

The political and business history of Mexico’s beleaguered critical press, caught between drug traffickers and the state, is the subject of Andrew Paxman’s new book.
The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (Review)

The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy (Review)

Alan McPherson’s book treats the Iran-Contra affair as a turning point in U.S. history, one which normalized the erosion of key democratic principles and helped birth our current (dis)order.

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Winter 2025 Vol. 57 NO.4

Boomerangs of Empire and the Technofascist Turn

In 1950, Martinican author Aimé Césaire used the term “imperial boomerang” to describe a historical circuit in which the tactics of imperial domination tested abroad return home, reshaping the very societies that invented them. Our winter issue takes Césaire’s insight not as metaphor but as method, tracing how this returning and disseminating violence is shaping the Americas today.

In keeping with NACLA’s tradition, this issue aims to expose the architectures of technofascism and to foreground the counter‑methods that boomerang back as resistance. Read the full editors’ introduction and explore more from this issue.

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This investigative podcast series takes listeners across Latin America to the scenes of some of the region’s most devastating, revolutionary, and historic moments. In Season 1, independent journalist Michael Fox dives deep into the past of Central America, uncovering the history of U.S. intervention and its lingering effects in the region today. Season 2 responds in real time to the Trump Administration’s onslaught in Latin America.

Under the Shadow walks back in time to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. It is produced in partnership with The Real News Network.

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