O n September 11, 1973, the Chilean military overthrew the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in a CIA-supported coup, installing a ruthless 17-year dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the U.S.-backed military junta killed or forcibly disappeared more than 3,000 people and tortured more than 40,000, the country became the laboratory for neoliberal policy with ...

The Campus Rebellion for Palestine . Across the hemisphere, students demanded an end to the genocide in Gaza. How they navigated repression and resistance offers lessons for the solidarity movement.

Dec 19, 2024 · Argentina’s Vaca Muerta: 10 Years of Fracking and Local Resistance. Patricia Rodríguez | January 15, 2024. With another oil and gas bonanza brewing and a new far-right president in the Casa Rosada, people-led proposals for a …

Read the transcript. I n this episode, host Michael Fox looks at the outsized role of the U.S. banana corporation, United Fruit, in Central America. You literally can't talk about the history of Central America in the 20th Century without mentioning it. Fox goes in …

Dec 6, 2024 · Leer este artículo en Español. I n mid-November, during a trip to participate in the APEC and G20 leaders’ summits in Latin America, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the inauguration of a mega port in Chancay, Peru. The huge deep-water infrastructure project, built with $1.3 billion in Chinese investment, is set to be complemented by a bi-oceanic railway that will connect Chancay to ...

Photos from the NACLA archives were identified, researched, and scanned by Pace University students Ana Armstrong, Mya Galan, Leslie Madera, Arwen Saenz, and Valeria Salazar, who have conducted research in the NACLA archives with the support of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the Project Pericles Foundation.

A s U.S. troops headed to Grenada in October 1983, most had no idea where they were going. Many had never even heard of Grenada, the smallest place the United States has ever invaded. Fewer still knew of the popular revolution that had taken …

W hile many had long proclaimed the death of the Pink Tide, the ouster of Bolivian President Evo Morales in 2019 was in some ways a nail in the coffin. The far-right government of Jeanine Áñez that followed unleashed the military on protesters, killing 30, persecuted those associated with the Morales government, threatened to privatize state industry, and …

Leia este artigo em português. Translated to English by Joyce Silva Fernandes. B lack people make up the majority in Brazil. Over half of the nation’s 215 million inhabitants—56 percent or about 120 million people—are Afro-Brazilian, making the country home to the largest Black population in the Americas.

Markus Hochmüller is a visiting professor of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and a senior associate of the Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.. Markus-Michael Müller is a professor with special responsibilities in International Development Studies at Roskilde University.