NORTH AMERICA
Civil-society groups urge Mexico to reject renewed attack on asylum
More than 70 civil-society organizations have sent a letter to the Mexican government (reprinted below) urging it to refuse to Continue Reading »
The Mexico Dialogue on Venezuela and the End of the Lima Group
The conversations in Mexico between the opposition Unitary Plataform of Venezuela and the Maduro government, with the intermediation of Norway, represent the failure of the US interventionist strategy and the end of the Lima Group.
105 Groups Demand Biden End Trump’s Anti-Asylum Policies Ahead of Former President’s Visit to Border
Biden’s continued use of Title 42 has driven family separations, groups say News release by Welcome With Dignity – June Continue Reading »
Family reunification: tearing down the razor wire
Reuniting the more than five thousand children forcibly separated from their parents by the Donald Trump administration has been a slow and agonizing process.
Was Trump’s Family-Separation Policy Torture?
“A crime against humanity” and “a disgrace to our great country”: that’s how 99-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nazis at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, characterized the Donald Trump administration’s coercive separation of thousands of immigrant children from parents seeking asylum.
Stalking ghost fishnets to save endangered vaquita: Mexico’s desperate fishing villages seek way forward
The involvement of drug cartel operatives in the illegal trade of critically endangered totoaba and vaquita porpoise bycatch has eclipsed efforts to enforce a five-year-long ban on gillnets, provoking foreign sanctions on the village’s all important seafood exports.
Adios Trump: A chance to reset US-Mexico relations
If any country on earth should be breathing a huge sigh of relief about now, it’s Mexico. Four years of bashing, bullying, trade threats and white supremacist machinations now ends with the ignominious exit of Donald J. Trump.
