In its fifteenth year, the Caravan of Central American mothers brought together six families. In total, the caravan has chalked up 315 reunions. Along the way it empowers women and challenges a system that considers their loved ones expendable.
Evo Morales arrived on Tuesday, thanking Mexico for “saving his life” after the coup d’etat that has left Bolivia without a legitimate president and plunged the nation into chaos and violence.
Honduras se derrumba. Los miles de migrantes que huyen todos los días son el testimonio de una crisis política, económica y social que el mundo ignora y que el gobierno de los Estados Unidos parece empeñado en perpetuar.
El poder más importante para estas madres es el poder encontrar a sus hijos. Y creen profundamente en este poder—si no, no estarían aquí. Han aprendido que este es un poder colectivo, que hay que organizarse para poder buscar y para poder enfrentar los poderes que tienen en contra
Honduras is collapsing. The thousands of migrants who flee every day are direct testimony to a political, economic and social crisis that the world ignores and the U. S. government seems bent on perpetuating.
The execution of three women and six of their children in the state of Sonora shocked the public in Mexico and the United States, where the family held dual citizenship, and once again put President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the defensive.
If these hate crimes end up reducing Trump’s ability to use racism and attacks against Mexico in campaigns; if the people and congress are mobilized to demand gun control, if the deaths lead to a greater repudiation of Donald Trump, Steven Miller and his agenda, and if the López Obrador government finally becomes convinced that Mexico does not have to be a friend to a government that foments attacks on its interests and its people, the victims will not have died in vain.
La fotografía de Óscar Martínez y su pequeña hija, Angie Valeria, boca abajo en el lodo a la orilla del Río Bravo ha dado la vuelta al mundo. Los salvadoreños murieron arrastrados por la corriente en su intento de cruzar de México a Estados Unidos. Su madre en El Salvador dijo que el sueño de su hijo era tener casa para su joven familia.
Si los crímenes de odio terminan reduciendo la posibilidad de utilizar el racismo y los ataque contra México en las campañas, si se moviliza a la gente y al congreso para exigir mayores controls sobre la venta de armas, las muertes no habrán sido en vano. Si llevan a un mayor repudio de Donald Trump, Steven Miller y su agenda, nadie habrá muerto en vano.
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently made two announcements that could finally close the bloodiest chapter in the history of the United States’ global war on drugs. He called for ending the Merida Initiative—the 3 billion-dollar US counternarcotics aid package that has fueled Mexico’s drug war—and announced a pivot from prohibition.
