AMLO’s Inauguration and the Future of Mexico
December 4, 2018
Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated Saturday, in a ceremony unlike any other seen in Mexico. What’s next for the new president?
Tag: Mexico; North America
Miners from Canada and the United States control 80% of the territory in the Oaxaca Valley
December 1, 2018
In the middle of October, the Juicio Popular y Comunitario Contra el Estado y las Empresas Mineras (People’s Trail against the State and the Mining Companies) was carried out in Oaxaca City, Mexico. The participating organizations denounce that in the Central Valleys, the most populated region in the state, 80% of the territory is awarded to mining companies from Canada and the United States.
A Global Movement of Mothers of the Disappeared
November 13, 2018
This year the Caravan of Central American Mothers arrived in Mexico City to participate in the first World Summit of Mothers of the Disappeared with mothers, other relatives of the missing and allies from Mexico, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Morocco, Mauritania, Spain, Italy and the United States to compare notes and gain a deeper understanding of the problem, across borders.
Central American Women Are Fighting Extractive Industries on their Land—and Winning
October 15, 2018
The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash for them.
Fifty years since the massacre of Tlatelolco
October 4, 2018
Fifty years since the attack that marked contemporary Mexican history, the demands of 1968 are still valid and the Mexican State has not yet clarified what happened this day.
A Survivor Talks About LIfe After the Tlatelolco Massacre
October 4, 2018
Laura Carlsen talks to Jesus Vargas, a leader of the student movement who was at the demonstration when the army attacked on Oct. 2. Jesus recounts the terror of that day, how the movement regrouped and his work for social justice.
Ayotzinapa: miles de personas marchan por la Justicia y la Verdad
September 27, 2018
De nuevo, el 26 de septiembre se reunieron en la ciudad de México miles de personas en la marcha para reclamar justicia y verdad para los cuarenta y tres normalistas de Ayotzinapa, desaparecidos desde hace cuatro años.
“The Government Still Owes Us A Lot”: Earthquake Victims in Colonia Obrera
September 20, 2018
Relatives, friends, neighbors and supporters paid homage to the people who died last year in the earthquake that brought down a building where more than 100 people worked, among them women seamstresses.
“The Emergency Isn’t Over”, the Homeless Commemorate a Year Since the Mexico City Earthquake
September 20, 2018
“As long as one single neighbor is still displaced from their home, the crisis that started with the earthquake continues,” says Gabriel Macías of the Tlalpan United group of neighbors whose apartment complex collapsed in the Sept. 19 quake. Around him crowd dozens of journalists, neighbors and members of the “Topos”, the moles, Mexico City’s volunteer rescue crews.
Security that kills
August 28, 2018
Claudia is not the first migrant murdered by the Border Patrol, nor will she be the last. The Border Patrol kills people with impunity in the name of “border security”.