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
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. his is part two of a three-part series on the history and present of Central America with Hilary … Read more
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. SAN SALVADOR — Julie Grier-Villatte wants to help the children of people jailed by El Salvador’s government. It is a humanitarian crisis that threatens to destabilize the country and send migrants traveling north to the U.S. border. For more than a decade, an organization led by the … Read more
There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to support of reactionary oligarchies, to devastating neoliberal restructuring, to the migration crisis now exploited in US politics.
President Nayib Bukele’s administration has repealed El Salvador’s 2017 metallic mining ban, paving the way for renewed extraction projects that threaten the environment and target environmental activists, such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.
MC favorite Jorge Cuellar returns to the show to discuss La Matanza in 1932, one of the worse massacres on indigenous people in Latin America, and why it still shapes the socioeconomic inequality in El Salvador.
Yvette Borja and Jorge Cuéllar discuss their experience as international observers for the Santa Marta 5 trial.
Professor Jorge Cuéllar guest editor of the Summer 2024 NACLA Report.
After spending 813 days in prison and facing a slate of procedural irregularities, leading Guatemalan newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora will await retrial under house arrest.
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligarchies and constant US intervention.
