By Liza González Perafán, INDEPAZ One by one, the leaves enter the mouth like bread, breaking up between bites and saliva. They settle in the cheek to soften...

by (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on Drugs has contributed mightily to the violence and poverty individuals, families, and children must end...

Our Witness for Peace delegation, Resisting Economic and State Repression, was in Mexico from April 3 to 13, 2018. We were a small but mighty delegation, fro...

By Luciano A. Ramirez Guerra Our delegation arrived in Mexico City and was greeted by a modern metropolitan environment that was a drastic change in scenery ...

Today, September 26th, 2017, marks the third anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa, at the hands of the Mexican State. Today, ...

by Laura Krasovitzky “The war on drugs has in fact been a strategy to disguise social control and political repression, which serves to prevent and dislocate...

August 16, 2017 Today marks the first official day that NAFTA renegotiations will take place between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, something Witness for Peace...

Witness for Peace is extremely concerned about the safety of Oaxacan human rights defenders Rodrigo Flores Peñaloza and Bettina Cruz Velázquez. Since Februar...

Out of a list of 926 mining projects in Mexico, there are 85 exploration projects from the U.S.A. 21 have been postponed, 23 in production, and 6 in developm...

by Amy Cameron “Prior to 2001, we lived in harmony and tranquility,” Maria Trinidad Ramirez Velasquez (Trini) tells our Witness for Peace delegation in Mexic...

by Ivory Taylor San Juan Chilateca, Oaxaca, Mexico – Our Witness for Peace Midwest delegation arrived in the small town of San Juan Chilateca on a warm day i...

by Mickey Foley (originally published on April 18, 2016 on the Land Stewardship Project website) On day two of our trip, we visited EDUCA (which stands for t...

In his state of the union address a few weeks ago, Mexican president Peña Nieto acknowledged that this past year had been “difficult.” In fact, his entire te...

By Sara Velimirovic In Latin America, between 2006 and 2011, the female prison population increased from 40,000 to more than 74,000, according to a new repor...

1. 21 years after NAFTA went into effect, neoliberalism is still making inroads (is alive and well) in Mexico. Over the last year or so, structural reforms w...

by Sonja Dahl, WFP intern Rubén Espinosa, a photojournalist based in the Mexican state of Veracruz who covered social movements, thought he had escaped dange...

by Zara Snapp* For the past 100 years, drug prohibition has been defended around the world (with a few exceptions), demonstrating a so-called “consensus” tha...

by (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on Drugs has contributed mightily to the violence and poverty individuals, families, and children must en...

por Maggie Ervin Probablemente no es una sorpresa que los diez principales contratistas del gobierno estadounidense son o están relacionadas con fines milita...