The forced resignation of DEA chief Michele Leonhart is a step in the right direction toward cleaning up one of the most wasteful and ethically questionable agencies of the federal government, the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Less than a year after the crisis of unaccompanied minors arriving in the United States, Washington has come up with its policy response to the children’s plight. Unfortunately, while purporting to address the root causes of migration, it mirrors — and in many ways intensifies — the causes that forced so many to flee.
President Obama has nothing to gain, and much to lose, by propping up Mexico’s corrupt President, Peña Nieto. Peña Nieto will be in Washington on Tuesday, seeking to bolster his support in the United States as it rapidly unravels in his own country.
Sustainable peace is not simply the absence of conflict or war. It’s based on a different concept entirely of security–instead of national security, it’s based on a conception of security that has at its center the well being of the people. If the basic needs of the majority of the population of the county are not met, there is no security.
The incidence of violence against women in Mexico has become an epidemic – one that cuts across class and regions. The official numbers hide the real scope of the problem. Many victims never report the crimes, out of fear or shame. And government officials often cover up the violence to avoid the negative image and sometimes to actively protect the guilty. Interview From Mexico spoke with Luz Estrada Mendoza about violence against women and “gender alerts” in the country.
The following is an interview we did for Interview From Mexico in which she describes her work searching for trafficking victims, new forms of trafficking and the scandalous case of a sex ring run out of the headquarters of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in Mexico City.
Since the beginning of the war on drugs, launched by former president Felipe Calderon in December of 2006, an alarming number of young Mexicans have been killed in a context of almost total impunity. Ayotzinapa is an outgrowth and a symbol of a war on youth.
Por trás do desaparecimento de 43 estudantes, militarização do Estado, estupidez da “guerra contra as drogas” e submissão total aos EUA. Agora, sociedade enfrenta sistema político
Después de una semana de elogios en Estados Unidos, el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto regresó a casa para enfrentar la peor crisis política de su administración. Hubo contundentes protestas luego de que la policía local desapareciera forzosamente a 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa.
Desde el inicio de la guerra contra el narco, lanzada por Felipe Calderón en diciembre de 2006, se ha visto un número alarmante de víctimas jóvenes en un contexto de casi total impunidad. Los recientes casos de las masacres de Ayotzinapa y Tlatlaya, que juntos representan la muerte o desaparición de 70 jóvenes este año, evidencian la emergencia nacional que viven hoy hombres y mujeres jóvenes del país.
