AMLO’s Inauguration and the Future of Mexico
December 4, 2018
Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated Saturday, in a ceremony unlike any other seen in Mexico. What’s next for the new president?
Author: Laura Carlsen
El Éxodo Centroamericano
November 29, 2018
“Después de décadas de intervenciónismo de EEUU, pobreza crónica, corrupción y violencia estructural, Centroamérica no aguantó mas.”
A Global Movement of Mothers of the Disappeared
November 13, 2018
This year the Caravan of Central American Mothers arrived in Mexico City to participate in the first World Summit of Mothers of the Disappeared with mothers, other relatives of the missing and allies from Mexico, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Morocco, Mauritania, Spain, Italy and the United States to compare notes and gain a deeper understanding of the problem, across borders.
Partisanship and patriarchy in the defense of Kavanaugh
October 30, 2018
The US Senate committee held a hearing to decide whether it would pass on the nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to a vote on the Senate floor. Millions of Americans saw one of the most shameful moments in modern US history. The showdown between the privileged white man groomed for power and a sexual abuse victim struggling to be believed were a prime example of that part of Trumpian American society that is not only post-truth, but also post-moral.
Central American Women Are Fighting Extractive Industries on their Land—and Winning
October 15, 2018
The battle to stop the spread of extractive industries pits indigenous and peasant communities against powerful business interests, backed up by politicians who encourage the foreign investments that convert millennial ways of life into cash for them.
Partidismo y patriarcado en la defensa de Kavanaugh
October 11, 2018
El caso del juez Kavanaugh en Estados Unidos podría ser una batalla decisiva entre la reacción patriarcal y los avances feministas.
A Survivor Talks About LIfe After the Tlatelolco Massacre
October 4, 2018
Laura Carlsen talks to Jesus Vargas, a leader of the student movement who was at the demonstration when the army attacked on Oct. 2. Jesus recounts the terror of that day, how the movement regrouped and his work for social justice.
Patagonia, the Mapuche struggle for the survival of the planet
September 14, 2018
The current government of Argentina has waged a fierce fight against the Mapuche who defend their territory with assassinations, political imprisonment and criminalization of defenders of the land.
De la indignación a la transformación
September 4, 2018
La indignación causada por la política pública de separación de familias en EE.UU, seguida por la orden de anulación como un supuesta muestra de sensibilidad, es un clásico ejemplo del modo de hacer negocios de Trump : hacer una oferta extrema para retirarla y lograr que su oponente acepte lo que realmente quería desde el principio.
Security that kills
August 28, 2018
Claudia is not the first migrant murdered by the Border Patrol, nor will she be the last. The Border Patrol kills people with impunity in the name of “border security”.