Argentines March Against Fascism
February 17, 2025
More than one million people protested and marched against President Javier Milei’s racist, anti-feminist and particularly anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric on Feb. 1.
Category: Democracies
From the Heartland, the New Face of Resistance in the U.S.
February 1, 2025
On a bitter January afternoon, hundreds of citizens crowded into a community room in Columbia, Missouri, their winter coats piled in corners, their breath […]
HOW WILL MEXICO’S NEW PRESIDENT DEAL WITH TRUMP, MIGRATION, AND DRUG CARTELS?
January 28, 2025
Laura Carlsen discusses how Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges and a changing U.S.-Mexico relationship. In June 2024, Mexicans elected a […]
Mexico has its first woman president. Here’s why that matters
October 3, 2024
With the slogan “It’s time for transformation, it’s time for women!” and shouts of “Presidenta”, Claudia Sheinbaum took office October 1 after winning a landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2. She defeated her closest rival, the conservative candidate (and also a woman) Xochitl Galvez, by a thirty-point margin and a vote count of 35 million—a record in the history of Mexican democracy.
Ayotzinapa: From Presidential Promises to Disappointment
July 30, 2024
On June 27, the mothers and fathers of the 43 students forcibly disappeared from the rural teachers’ school in Ayotzinapa made public their position regarding the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s extreme defense of the army.
The liberal and libertarian project in Argentina: the six hardest blows against women’s and vulnerable sectors’ rights
March 20, 2024
Only ten days after assuming the presidency after winning the ballot with 55.7% of the votes, the libertarian liberal Javier Milei signed a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU). In this article we present the 6 blows against the emblematic advances that Argentina had made for women’s rights, for training on gender issues, for the prevention of discrimination and for the protection of nature in the country.
Once the US’s “Good Friend” in Honduras; Now on Trial for Drug Trafficking
February 14, 2024
The trial of Juan Orlando Hernández, once the seemingly untouchable and authoritarian president of Honduras, is officially set to begin on February 12 in New York.
The Impact of the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico and Central America and How We Can Change It
December 22, 2023
Mira director Laura Carlsen offers a close-up of the impacts of U.S. policy in Mexico and Central America. Juan González, of the Great Cities Institute and Democracy Now!, examines immigration, US policy and the links between forced immigration and sanctions, and Gimena Sánchez of WOLA looks at policy in Colombia and the Andean region. Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research discussed the history and the impact of U.S. economic sanctions.
El Salvador is reluctant to talk about abortion
December 22, 2023
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights analyzes the case of Beatriz, a young woman who was denied the possibility of terminating her pregnancy by […]
Surprises in Argentine Run-Up to Presidential Election
November 14, 2023
By Julia Muriel Dominzain and Diego González In both the August primary elections In Argentina and the general elections on October 22, the electorate […]