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Mexico’s Refugees

For the past year, Ciudad Juarez has been a flashpoint of the migrant and refugee humanitarian crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico Continue Reading »
Written on October 23, 2019 at 12:06 pm
Categories: Drug War, Featured Content, Migration
Tags: asylum seekers, Mexico; North America, Mexico's drug war, US-Mexico border
On the Border, Small Farmers Tackle Big Issues of Migration, Climate Change, Food Policy

Ciudad Juarez on the Chihuahua-Texas border has historically been a nexus of migration and global capital flows. Now that the presidency of Donald Trump has revived international debates on both, the international small farmers’ organization, Via Campesina, gathered from around the world there in early November to examine the connections between low-wage work, migration and the environment.
Written on November 20, 2017 at 2:56 pm
Categories: Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Land and Territory, Migration, social movements
Maquiladora Workers, the Missing Faces in the NAFTA Renegotiation

Low wages paid to Mexican workers continue to be a contentious issue as the three-way talks for a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) proceed.
Written on October 12, 2017 at 10:29 am
Categories: Democracy and Society, Human Rights, social movements
Tags: Mexico; North America
On May Day, Protestors Show Transnational Unity As Tensions Heighten

May Day is a transnational event in the Paso del Norte borderlands of El Paso-Ciudad Juarez-southern New Mexico. At this year’s demonstrations, U.S. and Mexican activists joined together to denounce Trump administration immigration policies, current and looming wars, Peña Nieto administration economic and labor reforms, femicides, the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa college students, attacks on workers, and Mexico’s pending internal security law.
Written on May 16, 2017 at 1:48 pm
Categories: Democracy and Society, Human Rights, Migration, social movements
Tags: Mexico; North America
The Banker and the Bass Player: Scapegoats of the Drug War?

Zihuatanejo and the case of Luis Quintana and Ilse Ramirez stand as another important test of the rule of the law, respect for human rights and the prospects for democratic change in Mexico.
Written on March 21, 2017 at 10:46 am
Categories: Drug War, Human Rights
Tags: Mexico; North America
Citizen Excursions into the Border’s Valley of Dollars and Death

It’s anybody’s guess how many victims of violence are still buried somewhere in the Juarez Valley on the Mexico-U.S. border. For starters, there is the still largely unexcavated Navajo Arroyo, where the remains of 18 young women who went missing from nearby Ciudad Juarez have been recovered and identified since late 2011, according to the local daily Norte.
Written on October 27, 2016 at 8:27 pm
Categories: Drug War, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Migration, social movements
Tags: Mexico; North America
The Silent Drama of the Disappeared

Silent traumas grip a growing number of families in Mexico. Not knowing where a loved one is, relatives comb jails, hospitals, morgues and common graves. Digging into the earth, their shovels probe for bodies or remains–fragments of a human being who once warmed their lives.
Written on October 10, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Categories: Democracy and Society, Drug War, Human Rights, Mexico's Meltdown, social movements
Tags: Mexico; North America
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