
“Free, powerful and fearless”: International Women’s Day 2025 in Mexico
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 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
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 female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel
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
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was taken into custody by US officials in New Mexico on July 25. We still don’t really know what happened. We might never know.
The United States government is trying to force Mexico to continue importing genetically modified corn, despite proven negative impacts on health and the environment
A police commando broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito, kidnapped Jorge Glas, former Vice President during the government of Rafael Correa and the first year of Lenin Moreno’s administration, and harassed
On August 5 and 6, 2023, 181 women delegates and councilwomen of the CIG-CNI, 27 girls and boys, 14 comrades and 7 support comrades from the Afro-Mestizo, Afro-Mexican, Binni Zaa, Chol, Chontal,
More than 220 mega hog farms operate in the Yucatan territory, wreaking havoc on water reserves, traditional agriculture, food sovereignty and territorial control by local communities. This industry relies on exports and
Stating that “oil and lithium belong to the nation”, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a decree “to nationalize lithium so that it cannot be exploited by foreigners, neither by Russia, nor