By Paola Jaimes Santamaria, Pedro Labayen Herrera Last month, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced the finalization of a “free trade” agreement (FTA) with Canada, marking the culmination of nearly a year of
By Ariela Ruiz Caro The measures taken by President Donald Trump during his two months in office do not point to a path of prosperity and growth, as he announced during his
By Talli Nauman The anniversary of a fire inside a reactor building at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant (CNLV) set off the first year of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s presidential term. It
By Laura Carlsen It’s impossible to say how many of us there are. The International Women”s Day march in Mexico City isn”t a congregation, it”s a river, a river that begins to
By Tracy L. Barnett Seventeen years after 8-year-old Miguel Ángel López Rocha fell into the Santiago River and died from toxic poisoning, his death continues to fuel one of Mexico’s most determined
140 million people live below the poverty level in the United States. Latinxs, and particularly Latina workers, are among the most exploited and lowest paid.
On June 27, the mothers and fathers of the 43 students forcibly disappeared from the rural teachers’ school in Ayotzinapa made public their position regarding the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s extreme
March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD), serves as a barometer of the strength of feminist and women’s movements, especially in Latin America where for years people have been mobilizing for women’s rights
Facing inequality, exploitation and isolation, women household workers have united to fight for recognition and labor dignity. For a few days in 1988, household workers from 11 Latin American countries left behind
n this installment we present three country notes-Mexico, Argentina and Brazil-on advances and setbacks in access to safe and legal abortion in our continent. The different overviews remind us that while there