In a virtually unprecedented development, labor protest is widening in the maquiladora industry of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. While worker dissatisfaction or protest is nothing new in the foreign-owned border factories that produce
Americas Program interview with Gonzalo Molina, Tixtla community police leader and current political prisoner.
The Bridge of the Americas, known as the Cordoba Bridge or Free Bridge in borderland parlance, carries more than just commercial trucks and routine travelers between the northern Mexican city of Ciudad
Approximately one year after the murders and forced disappearances, the truth is still buried. But the implications of these crimes are obvious.
The product of exclusive negotiations that took place behind closed doors, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents the final sale of Mexico to the multinational corporations. In other words, a farewell to whatever
MiningWatch Canada and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) released a report that squarely links Canadian mining interests throughout the Americas with intensifying repression and violence against mining-affected communities.
United under a call for justice extended through decades of impunity, the fight for justice for the victims of state repression came alive at the march, inspired by the fierce activist spirit
Yet like NAFTA before it, the TPP could open the door wide to greater and more lucrative opportunities for a generally unspoken class of entrepreneurs lurking in the midst–drug traffickers.
The signatory organizations address The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide information, as a result of their research, documentation and accompaniment of cases, that show the widespread, and in
Americas Program’s photojournalism report from Friday’s October 2nd March in Mexico City.