By Laura Carlsen It’s impossible to say how many of us there are. The International Women”s Day march in Mexico City isn”t a congregation, it”s a river, a river that begins to
By Tracy L. Barnett Seventeen years after 8-year-old Miguel Ángel López Rocha fell into the Santiago River and died from toxic poisoning, his death continues to fuel one of Mexico’s most determined
140 million people live below the poverty level in the United States. Latinxs, and particularly Latina workers, are among the most exploited and lowest paid.
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
March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD), serves as a barometer of the strength of feminist and women’s movements, especially in Latin America where for years people have been mobilizing for women’s rights
Facing inequality, exploitation and isolation, women household workers have united to fight for recognition and labor dignity. For a few days in 1988, household workers from 11 Latin American countries left behind
n this installment we present three country notes-Mexico, Argentina and Brazil-on advances and setbacks in access to safe and legal abortion in our continent. The different overviews remind us that while there
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
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
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 the State of El Salvador because her life