Latin America

Obama Cuba

Trump Is Threatening to Roll Back Normalization With Cuba—Here’s What’s at Stake Trump Is Threatening to Roll Back Normalization With Cuba—Here’s What’s at Stake

Obama’s Cuba policy opened a new era of peaceful coexistence. Can it survive President Trump?

Jan 6, 2017 / Peter Kornbluh

Honduran Military Police

Will the Trump Administration Approve a Military Deal Between Honduras and Israel? Will the Trump Administration Approve a Military Deal Between Honduras and Israel?

Allowing the deal would be a powerful sign that the new administration plans to revive the Nixon Doctrine.

Jan 5, 2017 / Greg Grandin

A Catalog of Cadavers

A Catalog of Cadavers A Catalog of Cadavers

Claudia Salazar Jiménez sets out to conjure the experience of atrocity in Peru with her debut novel, Blood of the Dawn. The result is disquieting—though not in the way you’d e...

Dec 30, 2016 / Ratik Asokan

Meet the Central American Women the United States Is Detaining and Deporting

Meet the Central American Women the United States Is Detaining and Deporting Meet the Central American Women the United States Is Detaining and Deporting

Horrific conditions in the Northern Triangle led to a major policy crisis for the Obama administration. A new wave of refugees could do the same for Trump.

Dec 26, 2016 / Emily Gogolak

Guatemala Water March

The Alliance for Prosperity Will Intensify the Central American Refugee Crisis The Alliance for Prosperity Will Intensify the Central American Refugee Crisis

Conceived without the participation of civil-society groups, the chief goal is to advance elite US and Northern Triangle business interests.

Dec 21, 2016 / Dawn Paley

Santa in Caracas

Christmas in Caracas? Worse Than the Grinch! Christmas in Caracas? Worse Than the Grinch!

Amid today’s crisis, what is salvageable from the Bolivarian Revolution? A conversation with Alejandro Velasco.

Dec 16, 2016 / Greg Grandin

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws? What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?

Abortion is illegal in El Salvador—even in the midst of a public health crisis. But some feminists and doctors are fighting back.

Dec 14, 2016 / Madeleine Schwartz

Remembering El Mozote, the Worst Massacre in Modern Latin American History

Remembering El Mozote, the Worst Massacre in Modern Latin American History Remembering El Mozote, the Worst Massacre in Modern Latin American History

For decades, justice was denied and survivors were afraid to talk. But recently an international court found the government guilty, and a local judge has reopened a case against th...

Dec 13, 2016 / Sarah Esther Maslin

Fidel Castro

How Cubans See Fidel Castro and His Revolution Is Tied to How They See Themselves How Cubans See Fidel Castro and His Revolution Is Tied to How They See Themselves

It’s no surprise many beam with pride when they talk about the “triumphs of the revolution.”

Nov 30, 2016 / Andrés S. Pertierra

After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?

After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next? After Fidel Castro, What Comes Next?

Castro’s death comes at a particularly delicate stage in the ongoing effort to normalize Cuba-US relations.

Nov 26, 2016 / Peter Kornbluh

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