Category: Mexico
Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country
The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall
Evan Neuhausen: “A Project for Life” in Mexico CityA housing movement on the fringes of Mexico City offers an example of the fruits of breaking with the clientelism that has long dominated Mexican politics to build autonomous alternatives in its communities
Jen Moore: “When They Kill One, A Thousand More Are Born”A Southern Mexico community remembers Mariano Abarca, who gave his life fighting mining companies, with a celebration of resistance
A major feature of NAFTA was the requirement that Mexico strengthen and lengthen its patent and copyright protections. These barriers are 180 degrees at odds with expanding trade and removing barriers
This year has been the most violent year on record for Mexico, with almost 26,000 intentional homicides between January and September
The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-U.S. border cannot be understood separately from El Salvador’s painful past
Sammy Feldblum: Back to the WallThe same American myths that drove frontier expansion now support closing the borders
Cecilia Nowell: “Green Tide” Reaches Mexico as Oaxaca Decriminalizes AbortionOaxaca’s monumental decision last week to decriminalize abortion is part of a larger “Green Tide” movement across Latin America
Simon Schatzberg: AMLO’s State of the Union AddressRhetoric Meets Reality