Two Guanajuato Miners Tell their Stories
For 500 years and counting, working in the mines of Guanajuato has been a way of life.
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Talking about Tren Maya: The Facts, Please
What’s missing in mainstream English language coverage of the Maya Train? Real data and the voices of the impoverished people in Mexico’s South.
Weekly News Items Dec 16
Garcia Luna, Carlos Slim getting richer, miners strike ends with raise, US gun-makers responsibilities for Mexican violence, Trump and Univision, the DACA fight.
Tren Maya: Mexico’s Massive & Modern Train Project
More than just a train, the scale of the project is enormous. And its effects are already visible.
Mexican Gov’t Backs Guatemalan Pres-Elect as He Faces Down ‘Coup’ Attempt
Mexico joined a choir of voices backing President-elect Bernardo Arévalo.
Women in Mexico Win Reproductive Choice
Verónica Cruz Sánchez, founder of Las Libres, has helped free countless women imprisoned for abortion and miscarriage.
Weekly News Items Dec 9
Women delivery drivers organize, independent union certification votes, Movimiento Ciudadano disassociates from far right opposition bloc, AMLO to take 2,400 hectares from US corporation, the centrality of the Mexican Revolution to global struggle.
Outsider: An Embarrassing Euphemism
That Xóchitl Gálvez is an anti-system outsider who burst onto the Mexican political scene, is perhaps the most repeated statement in Mexico’s corporate commentariat, but is it a statement of fact?
What Is Biden’s Immigration Policy?
Journalist José Luis Granados Ceja on immigration policies in the United States, the challenges in dismantling deeply ingrained policies and the need for a more just and humane immigration policy.
Mexico calls for moratorium on international deep-sea mining
Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs said in its announcement that it will support a moratorium on seabed mining in international waters