Mexico

August 26, 2019

NACLA habló con la nueva colectiva Mujeres+Mujeres sobre el reclamo de que se cese la cobertura machista y de que los medios de comunicación hagan una cobertura más completa, más responsable, y no-discriminadora.

August 26, 2019

As Mexican activists protest injustice in cases of gendered violence, a new collective criticizes the media’s failures to adequately cover violence against women and urges newsrooms to adopt a gender perspective in reporting on feminist issues.

July 30, 2019
José Luis Granados Ceja and Urooba Jamal

A recent court ruling demonstrated the extent of Canadian complicity in mining deaths worldwide—and how far the country still has to go in recognizing its role.

July 10, 2019
Brían Hanrahan

A three-month strike shutting down one of Mexico’s top universities lays bare class schisms, the López Obrador government’s tepid response to inequality, and organized labor’s limitations in building solidarity across class divides.

July 3, 2019

In the name of “sparking a reaction” from an indifferent public, images of migrant deaths decontextualize their reasons for fleeing and gloss over the impact of decades of prevention through deterrence policy.

July 2, 2019
Todd Miller

Todd Miller examines the ever-extending reach of U.S. border enforcement in an excerpt from his book Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (out July 23 from Verso Books)

May 30, 2019
Samantha Demby

Una red de diversas comunidades ribereñas en México ha logrado detener la construcción de una mega represa. Ahora, se están organizando para revitalizar su cultura y para fortalecer su autogestión de los recursos naturales.

May 28, 2019
Michael Lettieri

Julián Leyzaola Pérez gained a reputation as an anti-crime crusader as police chief of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez—and for the human rights abuses that occurred under his watch. He could likely become Tijuana’s next mayor. 

May 6, 2019
Samantha Demby

In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.

April 17, 2019
Olivia Durif

A conversation with two Marxist economists, Beatriz Mingüer and Oscar Rojas,  currently working as MORENA party legislative advisors on the political, juridical, and economic realization of Mexico’s Fourth Transformation.

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