El reciente aumento de armamento estadounidense transferido a Oriente Medio es parte de un auge sin precedentes en las principales ventas de armas de EE.UU. presididas por la administración Obama.
The White House touted its Nov. 6 denial of the controversial Keystone XL tar-sands crude-oil pipeline application as proof of a new U.S. policy committed to global leadership in climate change action.
The suspension of U.S. aid should indeed extend to all security aid to Mexico. Not only are serious cases of human rights violations piling up, but also because the militarized war on drugs model is in itself a violation of human rights.
Mexico just joined the growing list of countries that have moved towards legalization of marijuana. In a ruling last Thursday, the Supreme Court of Mexico granted injunctive relief to a group of four plaintiffs who had filed a complaint in 2013 requesting to be able to grow, transport and consume marijuana.
The mothers of Mexico’s disappeared have become experts in their own right—many have searched for their children on their own and have become the fiercest activists and critics of government impunity and state violence in Mexico.
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.
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 goods for export to the United States, previous manifestations of discontent in the generally union-free industry have usually been confined to one company at a time.
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 Juarez and El Paso, Texas. Over the years the border crossing over the Rio Grande has also served as a bridge between social movements and political ideas with transcendence in Mexico, the United States and across the globe.
El sábado 26 de septiembre, cuando se cumplía el primer año tras las desapariciones, al menos quince mil simpatizantes que representaban una amplia muestra de la sociedad mexicana se manifestaron en la capital pidiendo justicia para los estudiantes. Grupos como colectivos estudiantiles, uniones de profesores, organizaciones indígenas, partidos políticos de izquierdas y zapatistas entre otros marcharon juntos para mostrar su apoyo a las familias de los desaparecidos.
