La defensa del derecho a la alimentación, de la biodiversidad, de nuestros bienes naturales y la lucha por poner fin a la violencia en todas sus expresiones, agudizadas por el sistema capitalista y patriarcal, son banderas de la lucha de las mujeres campesinas.
When violence is attacked with violence, women become both victims and defenders. They are disproportionately and differently affected by violence, violation of human rights and the erosion of community. Yet Mesoamerican and the U.S. governments continue to fund militarist enforcement policies framed as counternarcotics or anti-terrorism that arm and train men to patrol and control the population that put women at great risk.
Twenty years since the alarm was first sounded in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua due the large number of women murdered with signs of torture and sexual abuse, the phenomenon has spread to the rest of the country.
Nahua community midwives in the Huasteca region of the state of Hidalgo play a fundamental role in the communities’ world view, since they guide a child’s beginnings and communal values The practices of the official health institutions are putting them at risk.
One year since their battle against criminal organizations began, community spokesmen talked to the Americas Program about their progress.
Los voceros de los grupos de auto-defensa en Michoacán hablan con el Programa de las Américas sobre su movimiento en su primer aniversario.
Entre lodo, guitarras, ‘¡vivas!’, fuegos artificiales y abrazos, miles de zapatistas dieron la bienvenida al 2014. El debate de si el movimiento está vivo o muerto, victorioso o derrotado, quedó atrás junto con el año 2013.
The capture of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, Joaquín Guzman Loera “El Chapo” is a major victory for the U.S.-Mexican drug war. But will it reduce or increase the violence that plagues the country?
The Cora people oppose a reservoir in the San Pedro Mezquital River that would inundate or endanger 18 sacred sites, and would restrict their traditional cultural practices.
Asumir la agenda de seguridad nacional de EE.UU. en el marco TLCAN-ASPAN-Mérida ha sido, y sigue siendo, un desastre para la seguridad humana en México.
