Alan McPherson’s book treats the Iran-Contra affair as a turning point in U.S. history, one which normalized the erosion of ...

A state-backed film detailing the 1981 massacre at El Mozote raises thorny questions about the country’s civil war.

The United States has painted its January 3 invasion of Venezuela as a surgical operation. But for those on the ground it was a disaster.

Michael Fox looks at the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation that have been spread about Venezuela in the wake of the ...

As a right-wing center harnesses public funds to bolster U.S. imperial power at Florida International University (FIU), a faculty member ...

A few days before Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina, threats began flowing into line 144, a helpline exclusively intended to respond to reports of gender-based violence. In addition ...

In the early 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan launched a covert war to destroy the fledgling Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. It was brutal: paramilitary war, CIA attacks, economic blockade, and ...

The 34th National Women’s Encuentro held in La Plata, Argentina in October 2019 was historic for multiple reasons. For one, it brought together 200,000 feminists, sexual dissidents, and social ...

Dozens of protesters jump for joy outside the Peru’s Congress of the Republic. It’s October 10 and President Dina Boluarte has just been removed from office by the same lawmakers who shielded her for ...

Who is Rody Alvarado Peña? For much of the 1980s and early 1990s, she was one of Guatemala's thousands of battered women, suffering daily violent abuse at the hands of her husband. Since escaping to ...

The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile below the mountainsides. There are two ways in from the airport: descending ...

Few incidents have galvanized the Puerto Rican nation as much as the FBI’s extra-judicial killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in September 2005. Indeed, the politically divided country ...