Read the transcript. T wo hundred years ago, on December 2, 1823, then-president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. In his address, he laid out what would become both one of the most consequential and devastating ideas for Latin America—the Monroe Doctrine.

I n 1985, when President Reagan declared Nicaragua “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” his words were followed by a trade blockade, a ban on commercial flights and—most seriously of all—the financing of the “Contra” war, which led to 30,000 deaths. When, 33 years later, Donald Trump made the same …

I n December 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R.2116, also known as the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Although this act was developed by the conservative United States Institute of Peace, it was introduced to Congress by Democratic Representative Eliot L. Engel, then chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and cosponsored by a bipartisan group of …

The Winter 2024 issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas.

May 12, 2023 · Kevin Ramírez is a PhD Candidate in Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University studying Salvadoran Indigenous communities in the 20th century.His work sheds light on the overlooked Indigenous history in El Salvador by examining the relationship between La Matanza of 1932 and the 1980s civil war.

This is an abridged version of an interview published by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies (CMS) and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) Institute for Mexican Studies at UCLA. The interview is part of a series conversations with prominent Mexican labor leaders. Read Part I here.

O n December 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with tens of thousands of troops. It was the largest U.S. invasion since Vietnam. The first U.S. military action since the fall of the Berlin Wall one month before. The testing ground for the Iraq wars.

Mar 14, 2024 · Ernesto Bohoslavsky is a historian and professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Argentina. His research is focused mainly on anticommunism during the Cold War in South America. Magdalena Broquetas is a historian and professor at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. She has researched right-wing and extreme right-wing …

H ugo Chávez died eleven years ago. The period since has been one of the most difficult in Venezuela’s history. From 2014 to 2021, Venezuela suffered one of the worst economic crises in modern history. The economy contracted by 86 percent.

P ublished since 1967, the award-winning NACLA Report on the Americas is a quarterly magazine of news and analysis. It is the oldest and most widely read progressive magazine covering Latin America and its relationship with the United States. Centered around our unique "Report" section, which examines a single topic in depth, the magazine offers comprehensive, …