North American Congress on Latin America
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| Abbreviation | NACLA |
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| Formation | 1966 |
| Type | non-profit organization; publisher |
| Headquarters | 53 WASHINGTON SQ. SOUTH FL. 4W |
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NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) |
| Website | nacla |
North American Congress in Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1966 to provide information on trends in Latin America and relations between Latin America and the United States. The organization is best known for publishing the quarterly NACLA Report on the Americas, and also publishes "books, anthologies and pamphlets for classroom and activist use". It has been described as having a leftist political leaning. The NACLA Report on the Americas print magazine was shortly discontinued in 2015, but relaunched under the Taylor and Francis imprint Routledge in May 2016.
For the last 50 years, NACLA has been a source of English-language news and analysis for journalists, policymakers, activists, students and scholars in North America and throughout the world.
"[T]he focus of our attention and hope was the Cuban Revolution. The readers and writers of the NACLA Newsletter tended to view the future of Latin America and the Caribbean as resting on the possibility of reproducing something like the Cuban model elsewhere in the region."
The first issue of NACLA Newsletter, the publication that was to become NACLA Report on the Americas, rolled off a mimeograph machine in New York in February 1967. The North American Congress on Latin America, its fledgling publisher, had just come together as a coalition of “New Left” student activists. The founders of NACLA used the term “congress” to draw upon the spirit of “Congress of Unrepresented People,” a contemporary group of civil rights, antiwar and labor activists who came together to challenge elite conceptions of the “national interest” as fundamentally opposed to the real interests of the majority of the American people.
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