This investigative podcast series takes listeners across Latin America to the scenes of some of the region’s most devastating ...

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

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

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 ...

The Thinking with Bad Bunny Symposium, part of CENTRO's 50th anniversary celebrations. (Brandon Chacón, courtesy of CENTRO) P uerto Ricans are the Latinx vanguards of the East Coast. With mass ...

O n November 5, São Paulo’s Military Police shot and killed a four-year-old boy, Ryan da Silva, in the coastal city of Santos in southeastern Brazil.The boy was killed during an operation in his ...

T he Dominican Republic deported over 108,000 Haitians in 2022. These numbers will likely go up in 2023. In November, the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, ramped up his deportation ...

T he North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which governed trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1994 to this July, facilitated the expansion of industrial meat production in ...

O n September 19, 2023, during the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Nayib Bukele sung the praises of his government, boasting El Salvador’s transformation from the “murder ...

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, ...