Central America’s story is much more complex than meets the eye. The region’s cultures are not mere analytical shorthand—peoples fissured by colonialism, imperialism, and mestizo nationalism—nor can they be reduced to narratives symbolized by flags, food, and folklore. Foregrounding such perspectives leaves out practices of everyday being and self-making, ignoring how groups, collectives, and individuals … Read more
President Nayib Bukele’s administration has repealed El Salvador’s 2017 metallic mining ban, paving the way for renewed extraction projects that threaten the environment and target environmental activists, such as the ongoing politically motivated trial against five water defenders from Santa Marta.
Murder and violence, combined with US aid freeze, leaves indigenous communities increasingly vulnerable to exploitation.
The Winter 2024 issue of the NACLA Report explores transcontinental encounters between the land of historical Palestine and the land we know as the Americas.
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited “tributary societies to the US,” while that “sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched.”
Inspired by his own family’s migration from postwar El Salvador, professor Jorge Cuéllar illuminates how Salvadorans foster hope and community.
