Images released during Operation Lockdown at the La Joya and La Joyita prisons have been presented as a show of force and control by the State, following the escape of more than 150 inmates. Men sitting on the ground, half-naked, surrounded by armed agents, are part of a staged performance intended to project authority and send a message of a heavy-handed approach to society. The scenes are reminiscent of the punitive exhibition strategies that have become popular in various countries in the...

What an advertisement reveals about racism in Panama. by Chevy Solís We have followed the debate sparked by a recent advertisement in which a Black woman is introduced, first and foremost, as a Black woman, by a white woman. While many people have focused the discussion on the intentions of the person who produced the content, for Afroresistencia the most important question is another: Why does Blackness appear before her expertise, her knowledge, or her professional experience? Why isn’t she...

International Migrants Day – December 18 Migration in Central America and the Americas cannot be analyzed solely as a phenomenon of human mobility or as a temporary crisis. It is a historical and contemporary expression of structural inequalities produced by a global order that has organized the world between territories of origin and territories that control, filter, and discard lives, establishing borders not only on land but also on the bodies of those expelled by hunger, insecurity, and...