North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

08/25/2026

From our Summer 2026 Issue: Judith Sierra-Rivera looks at the photography of Carla Cavina during , which became an embodied narrative that began with themes of confinement and evolved into an antithesis between a body under restriction and a body in motion.

✍ Judith Sierra-Rivera
📸 Carla Cavina )

https://nacla.org/the-ship-adrift-masculine-feminine-intimacy-in-the-photography-of-carla-cavina/
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The series traces a poetics of confinement that links intimacy, gender, and militarization in Puerto Rico.

08/25/2026

🇭🇳 The massacre of 20 campesinos in the Bajo Aguán Valley demonstrates the deadly consequences of their struggle against powerful landowners with ties to the recently elected far-right government.

https://nacla.org/a-rightward-turn-in-honduras-puts-land-defenders-at-risk/
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The massacre of 20 campesinos in the Bajo Aguán Valley demonstrates the deadly consequences of their struggle against powerful landowners with ties to the recently elected far-right government.

08/25/2026

🇧🇷 Few countries in the world have fought disinformation as actively as Brazil. Now, the United States is pushing to roll it back in the name of US-style “free speech.” Listen to the latest episode of The Battle for Free Speech by Michael Fox for TheRealNews

Few countries in the world have fought disinformation as actively as Brazil. Now, the United States is pushing to roll it back in the name of US-style “free speech.”

08/25/2026

From our Summer 2026 issue 📗 🌴María del Rosario Acosta López explores the work of Eblin Grueso at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín (MAMM), in the context of the exhibition “Challenge: Crossing the Sun from a Vast Pacific,” curated by Yolanda Chois in July 2024.

✍ María del Rosario Acosta López
📸 María del Rosario Acosta López & Margarita Cruz
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Tracing a journey from the gold mines of Timbiquí to the Pacific and on to Cali, Eblin Grueso’s Viaje en el Tiempo activates memory as a detonating force that affirms Black life.

08/24/2026

🇻🇪 El esfuerzo por restablecer las relaciones diplomáticas entre Venezuela e Israel tiene precedentes bajo el liderazgo chavista, cuya relación con Israel ha sido más contradictoria de lo que se suele comentar. Al mismo tiempo, este proceso de normalización también debe contextualizarse en el marco de la alineación del nuevo gobierno con los objetivos políticos de la administración de Trump tras la invasión estadounidense.

✍ Simón Rodríguez
📸 Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel
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La misión de ayuda de Israel a Venezuela ha sido presentada por ambos gobiernos como un paso hacia relaciones más estrechas, generando repudio entre el activismo.

08/24/2026

🇸🇻 En marzo, la drástica campaña de El Salvador contra presuntos pandilleros entró en una nueva etapa con reformas constitucionales que permiten imponer p***s de cadena perpetua.

Lea más sobre las consecuencias.

✍ Anne Ruelle
📸 Anne Ruelle

Tras cuatro años de una campaña de represión contra presuntos pandilleros que ha acabado con los derechos civiles, las recientes reformas constitucionales abren la puerta a nuevos abusos.

08/22/2026

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08/22/2026

🇻🇪 The push to re-establish diplomatic ties between Venezuela and Israel is not unprecedented under Chavista leadership, whose relation with Israel has been more contradictory than is widely discussed. At the same time, this normalization process must also be contextualized against the backdrop of the post-U.S. invasion alignment of the new government with the policy goals of the Trump administration.

Read more at nacla.org

✍ Simón Rodríguez
📸 Israeli Defense Forces
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08/22/2026

🇵🇪 Fujimorismo may be back, but the struggle for Peru only begins. The election of Keiko Fujimori brings forth, front and center, old and new questions about Peru’s democratic values and endurance in a hemispheric age of increasingly authoritarian hybrid regimes.

Read more at nacla.org

✍ Javier Puente
📸 Office of the President of Peru, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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08/21/2026

We are back and it's Friday! 📗 The Necromantic State offers a framework for approaching Venezuela’s recent history—one already widely debated across scholarly, media, and public discourse, yet reframed through an original take.

Read the review at nacla.org

✍ Cristina E. Pardo Porto
🎨 Duke University Press ()
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