Santiago Navarro F and Regina López for Avispa Midia
Indigenous Nahua community members recovered their ancestral land in Michoacan on Mexico's Pacific coast in 2009. Amid legal and criminal violence, the struggle continues.
En junio, más de 12.000 personas se vieron obligadas a abandonar sus hogares en el pueblo de Tila. A medida que se intensifican las disputas históricas por la tierra, varios grupos armados luchan por el control territorial.
In June, more than 12,000 people were forced out of their homes in the former Zapatista stronghold of Tila. As historic land disputes escalate, several armed groups fight for territorial control.
Las parteras tradicionales lograron el derecho a expedir certificados de nacimiento, un paso clave para subsanar las deficiencias de salud materna en comunidades indígenas. Pero su lucha por la protección y la autonomía continúa.
Caught between conflicting notions of “democracy,” leveled on one hand by a fearmongering right and on the other by a critical grassroots left, Mexico’s government must grapple with its undemocratic condition of global dependence.
Traditional midwives have won the right to issue birth certificates, a key step toward addressing maternal health gaps in Indigenous communities. But their fight for protections and autonomy continues.
Mexico City’s former chief of police is believed to have participated in the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014. A decade later, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is poised to make him Mexico’s most powerful policeman.
As the government hides the staggering proportions of Mexico’s forensic crisis, the searching families of El Bosque de la Esperanza take control of their own narratives to resist stigmatization and erasure.
Leonardo Aranda Brito y Dora Ytzell Bartilotti Bigurra
Cuando la historia de la desparición forzada en México se cuenta en cifras, carece de un principio o un fin. Prácticas artísticas de resistencia buscan hacer visible la ausencia.
