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Non profit organization

North American Congress in Latin America (NACLA) is a 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". The NACLA Report on the Americas print magazine was briefly 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.

In 1966, the founders consisted of civil rights, anti war, and labor activists. The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) was established as a group that performed research for the leftist group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1978, NACLA split into two groups, with one group moving to Oakland, California, called the "Data Center". In the 1980s, NACLA's reporting focused on the United States' role in the Central American Wars of the 1980s. NACLA activists travelled frequently to El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala, studying conflicts in such areas. In the 1990s, NACLA stated that there was a pervasive culture of impunity in Latin America's new democracies. They highlighted the military consequences of the Drug War and criticized the neoliberal revolution occurring in Latin America. In 2006, the NACLA Report was rewarded with the Utne Independent Press Award for International Coverage. Since 2013, NACLA has partnered with the New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in the King Juan Carlos of Spain building, which houses NACLA's offices. After a brief pause in 2015, the NACLA Report on the Americas resumed publication in May 2016 as a quarterly publication published under the Taylor and Francis imprint Routledge. Content is managed by a small editorial staff and editorial board of academics, activists, journalists, and researchers.

NACLA developed programs involving public debate and activism surrounding issues in the Americas. This includes its flagship publication, NACLA Report of the Americas, among other books, anthologies, and pamphlets. To support its bi monthly newsletter, NACLA's site includes blogs, interviews, photo essays, its own radio department, and articles for investigative research and journalism. NACLA hosts and collaborates with various conferences, seminars, teach ins, and workshops to bring journalists, students, scholars, and others together such as The Media Accuracy on Latin America project, which involved a network of participants that generate constructive media criticism on U. S. policy in the region.

NACLA Report on the Americas is the political magazine produced by the North American Congress on Latin America. The journal describes itself as "the oldest and most widely read progressive magazine covering Latin America and its relationship with the United States". The magazine changed from bimonthly to quarterly in 2012. It ceased print publication in 2015. However, the magazine announced a return to print through a partnership with Routledge in April 2016. The relaunch of the magazine was set for May 27, 2016.

A standard issue began with several short pieces on Latin American and Caribbean current events followed by a series of longer in depth articles grouped in a thematic section on a particular topic of Latin American affairs and/or U. S. policy toward the region. Each issue ended with a review section on books related to Latin American and Caribbean political themes.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, stated in 1984 that NACLA "openly acknowledges its leftwing bias, even though other Latin American lobby groups have grown more circumspect" and that "despite the organization's theoretical ties to Marxist Leninism, it can respond to the changing political realities of Capitol Hill".