Outstanding Scholars Named As 2025 Career Enhancement Fellows Award Supports Career Development Opportunities for Junior Faculty in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts.

An über popular president once hailed as a bold reformer by Salvadorans in the United States is now facing backlash for aligning himself too closely with Trump.

An über popular president once hailed as a bold reformer by Salvadorans in the United States is now facing backlash for aligning himself too closely with Trump.

Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang member

Podcast Episode · Jacobin Radio · 11/03/2024 · 1h 55m

Marching towards what he calls the New El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has revolutionized many aspects of the country's reality.

Marching towards what he calls the New El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has revolutionized many aspects of the country's reality.

Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad...

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed...

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 oligar...

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 oligar...

NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.

The decision to grant a retrial presents further evidence of the deterioration of independence within El Salvador’s judicial system, and its politicization to punish and weaken the struggle to uphold ...

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.

NACLA is currently accepting proposals for an issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora. Send your pitches by December 13.

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed...

El Faro English · Episode

Podcast Episode · Radio Cachimbona · 10/21/2024 · 1h 27m

Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador faced life imprisonment over an alleged civil-war-era crime — until today. The five were just acquitted. Host Carol ...

The conference was held this weekend in the Afro-American Cultural Center.

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.

In past times that I’ve been in El Salvador to witness presidential elections, there has been a palpable sense of dynamism, of possibility and excitement, of fear and anxiety. This round, where democratic alternance has been emptied of all meaning, Salvadoran society feels like it’s standing still, people awaiting what’s to come. Back in 2019, there was a sense that Bukele’s victory would transform politics and usher in a brave new world away from that ossified two-party system that dominated in the governments of the postwar. Despite this symbolic breakthrough, one that helped cradle our new principito, few could predict that this would entail the dismantling of El Salvador’s fledgling democracy. Last Sunday, the 2024 elections were a mere formality, a last gasp for some historic parties, a boring celebration for what was already expected.

Advocates say law enforcement officials are preying on migrants and asylum seekers heading north across Central America.