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Struggling for Truth and Reconciliation in Uruguay

Struggling for Truth and Reconciliation in Uruguay

Proposed legislation calls into question how far the current government is willing to go to help victims of the dictatorship find justice ...
Desiring Temporalities + Playful Aesthetics Web Collection

Desiring Temporalities + Playful Aesthetics Web Collection

Through essays, interviews, experimental poetry, photography, music, and performance, contributors examine how memory is made in the present and how artistic and collective practices can forge spaces of resistance and worldmaking ...
The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (Review)

The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (Review)

The Necromantic State examines the creative acts that sustain, materialize, and engage the ghost of Hugo Chávez ...
The Ship Adrift: Masculine/Feminine Intimacy in the Photography of Carla Cavina

The Ship Adrift: Masculine/Feminine Intimacy in the Photography of Carla Cavina

The #RetoCuarentena series traces a poetics of confinement that links intimacy, gender, and militarization in Puerto Rico ...
Colombia and Israel’s Cynical Disaster Diplomacy

Colombia and Israel’s Cynical Disaster Diplomacy

Under the cover of earthquake response, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has dramatically reversed Colombia’s stance toward Israel, recognizing controversial Israeli claims over the occupied Golan Heights ...
Crazy Ass Moments: A Catalog of Appropriation and Playful Protest

Crazy Ass Moments: A Catalog of Appropriation and Playful Protest

The X account @AssLatAm turns viral political absurdities into a counter-archive of regional populism, challenging the engineered amnesia of the digital timeline ...
Operation Condor: The Pact that Terrorized a Continent (Review)

Operation Condor: The Pact that Terrorized a Continent (Review)

Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana walk readers through the tangled transnational web of Operation Condor and the abuses it facilitated ...
“A Body That Does Not Die in the Act of Being Erased”

“A Body That Does Not Die in the Act of Being Erased”

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 ...

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The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (Review)

The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (Review)

The Necromantic State examines the creative acts that sustain, materialize, and engage the ghost of Hugo Chávez ...
Operation Condor: The Pact that Terrorized a Continent (Review)

Operation Condor: The Pact that Terrorized a Continent (Review)

Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana walk readers through the tangled transnational web of Operation Condor and the abuses it facilitated ...
Sarhuapa Willakuynin: Stories and Songs of Sarhua (Review)

Sarhuapa Willakuynin: Stories and Songs of Sarhua (Review)

In their book, the community of Sarhua and the Puriyninchik Association create a vital collection of Sarhuina history, memory, and daily life ...
Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America (Review)

Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America (Review)

Tony Wood’s book looks at how Latin American radicals debated race, nation, sovereignty, and imperialism during a crucial period of the region’s history, with attendant lessons for today ...

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NACLA Report on the Americas

Spring 2026 Vol. 58 NO.2

Desiring Temporalities + Playful Aesthetics

NACLA’s Summer 2026 issue explores artistic practices of creation and research that experiment with ways of inhabiting the present, activating memory, engaging the archive, and stirring the senses in and from conditions of ongoing dispossession. 

The collection centers creative methodologies oriented by desire, collective praxis, and play, exploring diverse mediums from performance art and experimental poetry to digital archives, jazzoetry, music, and forms of listening attuned to crisis in the past and present.

Read the full editor’s introduction and explore more from the issue. 

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