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

Labor unions and social movements across Peru, Panama, Chile, Argentina and Mexico have taken to the streets in mass combative struggle against decades of neoliberal policies that seek to convert ...

Enrique C. Ochoa details the transformation of Mexico’s food economy from a traditional, locally controlled system to one ...

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

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Haiti’s current form of “checkpoint governance” represents a structural transformation in how politics works in the country.

While protests in Haiti today stem from decades of economic and political crisis, the current wave represents something unprecedented: a ...

Giovanni Batz’s carefully researched text examines how the Ixil and K’iche’ Mayas have resisted attacks on their land, state violence, and extraction.

Giovanni Batz’s carefully researched text examines how the Ixil and K’iche’ Mayas have resisted attacks on their land, state violence, ...

In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.

Community-based governance structures put decision-making about Ixlán de Juarez’s forests into local hands, creating economic opportunity and reversing centuries of deforestation in the town.