Author: Victor M. Quintana

Mexican Agriculture: Full Warehouses, Empty Pocketbooks

November 5, 2015

Outraged Mexican farmers arrived at the same bridges at the frontier with the United States this Monday. For ten hours they blocked the importation lane of the Córdoba/Americas international bridge that links the city of El Paso, Texas, with Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

Agricultura mexicana: Bodegas llenas, bolsillos vacíos

October 30, 2015

Hasta los mismos puentes de la frontera con los Estados Unidos llegaron este lunes los indignados agricultores mexicanos. Durante diez horas bloquearon el carril de importaciones del puente internacional Córdova-Américas que une las ciudades de El Paso, Texas, con Ciudad Juárez, en México.

Mexico’s Grassroots Caravans for Water, Land, Work and Life

June 9, 2015

The three contingents of the Caravan in Defense of Water, of the Land, and of Work and Life converged in Mexico City on May 22. The Yaqui tribe led the caravans, heading out May 11, to traverse the entire country from three routes: northwest, northeast and the south.

Los por qués de las caravanas

May 25, 2015

Este viernes 22 de mayo llegaron a la Ciudad de México los tres contingentes de la Caravana en Defensa del Agua, del Territorio, del Trabajo y la Vida.

NAFTA, Insecurity, Power Vacuums and Violence in Rural Mexico

May 31, 2014

Rural Mexico is experiencing a crisis in human security crisis. The drastic transformation of public policies toward the agricultural sector, induced by programs of structural adjustment and trade liberalization especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), created conditions for the emergence of the multiple forms of violence in Mexican agriculture.