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Families Divided: Dateline Nogales
August 30, 2012
It’s a steamy, overcast monsoon morning in Nogales, Sonora, just across the border from the United States.
Michael
Fox
July 12, 2011
By NACLA
Isaac Campos (University of Cincinnati)In his article in the most recent issue of NACLA, historian Isaac Campos explains, “The roots of the War on Drugs go deep in Mexico. In fact, in some ways, they are deeper there than in the United States.” This long history of drug prohibition...
Fred
Rosen
July 12, 2011
Javier Sicilia Credit: Agendamx“For some,” writes Javier Sicilia, responding to critics within his own fledgling movement, “to dialogue is to capitulate.” If you haven’t humiliated your adversary, you have failed. But to change the dynamic of the violence that has beset the country over,...
Nazih
Richani
July 11, 2011
Colombian Army (Credit: BBC)In Colombia the hyper security state is committed to continuing its war in spite of several recent good will gestures by the insurgency, including the unilateral release of a number of its detained prisoners of war and numerous calls by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
Emily
Achtenberg
July 08, 2011
President Mauricio Funes reaffirmed last week that no mining projects will be permitted in El Salvador during his presidency. Despite the great need for municipal and national revenues that such projects could generate, he stated, “I will not put the public health of the population at risk in...
Todd
Miller
July 06, 2011
I had a feeling when former Tohono O’odham tribal councilman David Garcia ope Papago Farms, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizonaned up the gate on the U.S.-Mexico boundary that it would attract the attention of the U.S. Border Patrol. We were in an isolated area near Papago Farms in late June, in the...
Fred
Rosen
July 05, 2011
Eruviel Ávila (Agencia MVT)To no one’s great surprise, Mexico’s once-and-future ruling party (or so it seems), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), scored major victories in four state elections this Sunday. The PRI won governorships in three states (México State, Coahuila and Nayarit),...