Author: Adazahira Chavez

In Mexico, Hate Continues to Kill Women

March 9, 2014

Twenty years since the alarm was first sounded in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua due the large number of women murdered with signs of torture and sexual abuse, the phenomenon has spread to the rest of the country.

Popular Resistance Rises to Mexico’s Neoliberal Reforms

September 19, 2013

Four interviewees spoke on the impact of the education, labor, energy and fiscal neoliberal reforms launched by President Enrique Pena Nieto. The opposition faces a challenge of coming together and finding new ways of expressing itself.

El sistema comunitario, fortaleza frente a las eólicas en Oaxaca

March 12, 2013

La fuerza de los pobladores que se oponen al despojo de sus tierras para implementar más parques eólicos en Oaxaca está en su asamblea, que ya decidió que el proyecto de Mareña Renovables no pasa y que rechazarán la consulta gubernamental al respecto por no ajustarse al derecho que les asiste como pueblos indígenas.

Community Organization Against Wind Farms in Oaxaca

March 12, 2013

The real strength of the villages that are fighting against expropriation of their lands for expansion of wind farms in Oaxaca lies in their traditional system of community assemblies. The assembly decided to reject the Mareña Renovables project and a proposed government consultation on it for failing to respect their rights as indigenous peoples.