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Gustavo Petro’s First Year: Social and Environmental Justice and Regional...
This week marked the first year of the first progressive government in Colombia’s history. In this short time, the government has proven its commitment to defend its victory at the polls. The Colombian...
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Bernardo Arévalo Victory Is a Turning Point for Guatemala
Progressive social democrat César Bernardo Arévalo de León of the Movimiento Semilla (Seed Movement Party) won the runoff election for Guatemala’s presidency on August 20, a surprising result that few...
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How Conservative Stronghold Guatemala Elected a Progressive President
The victory on Sunday of progressive politician Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala’s presidential runoff suggests that voters’ primary concerns are corruption and poverty – rather than conservatives’...
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Indefinite Exception
When El Salvador celebrates its Independence Day in mid-September, it will be a year and a half into an indefinite State of Exception. Elected in June 2019, President Nayib Bukele, young millionaire...
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The Promise of Spring
On the evening of August 20, election day for Guatemala’s second round of presidential voting, Alba Noe Muñoz’s family was afraid she would have a heart attack. The 90-year-old, mostly blind matriarch...
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Colombia, From the Guerrilla to the Ballot Box
On May 4, 2023, during the International Summit on Nonviolence held in Antioquia, Colombia, a handshake shocked those who were present. The handshake was between two men with vastly different...
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Against the Odds, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro Implemented Ambitious Left Policies
Just over a year ago, no one would have thought Colombia could provide an example of a leftist governing model. On the contrary, the nation has long been the bastion of classic liberal-democratic rule...
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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily initially by US and Canadian troops and subsequently by a multinational force of the United...
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Protests in Guatemala Shut Down the Country for More Than a Week
The crumbling, pothole-filled highways and roads across Guatemala have been shut down, blocked, and barricaded by protesters for more than a week . These protests in defense of democracy and against...
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An Uprising for Democracy in Guatemala
The kitchen tent was bustling with activity as volunteers prepared tortillas, scrambled eggs, doled out portions of beans and cheese, and poured coffee. It was just before eight in the morning at the...
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Protesters in Panama Are Marching Against Corruption
Panama is seeing a wave of massive protests sparked by the renewal of permits for one of the largest copper mining projects in the hemisphere. Tens of thousands have taken to the street to condemn the...
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The Pedagogy of Communal Politics in Guatemala
A communal mobilization of national scope has brought everyday impunity and extractivism in Guatemala to a halt and revealed the vulnerability of the entire political and social structure. This...
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Unprecedented Social Explosion Places Panama at the Vanguard of the...
First published in Portuguese at Revista Movimento. Translation by Revista Movimento. The approval, in the last debate in the House of Deputies on October 20, of Law 406 authorizing open-pit mining by...
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Talk of “Border Crisis” Is Misleading. The Real Crisis Is US-Imposed Poverty.
Immigration has been a touchstone of United States political debates for decades, and several cities claim to be at a “breaking point” as they struggle to absorb and support arrived migrants. But is...
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Panama: Ecological Uprising Evicts Transnational Mining Company
Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled that the contract signed between the state and Minera Panamá to operate the Cobre Panamá mine is unconstitutional, following weeks of mass sustained protests demanding...
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Communal Strategy Drives Indigenous-led Uprising in Guatemala
Over the past 10 weeks, the communal political system in Guatemala has turned party politics on its head. An energetic Indigenous rebellion has shaken the government to its core by mounting a challenge...
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In Gustavo Petro’s Colombia, a New Plan Is Promoting Green Energy and...
Colombian president Gustavo Petro has just declared a one-month economic, social, and environmental emergency in the country’s La Guajira region. By declaring the situation an emergency, President...
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A Working Class Victory on Colombia’s Horizon
The Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives voted to approve 16 of the 98 articles of the landmark Labor Reform bill right before the start of winter recess. The bill will now advance to a...
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Champions of El Salvador’s Historic Mining Ban Face Legal Persecution
El Salvador made history in 2017 when lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to ban mining for gold and other metals after coming under intense pressure from international mining interests. Mining requires...
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‘The Coup, For Now, Is Over’: Arévalo Sworn In as Guatemala’s President
Anti-corruption activist Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s president early Monday after months of fierce opposition from the Central American nation’s right-wing political establishment,...
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