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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

by Zara Snapp* For the past 100 years, drug prohibition has been defended around the world (with a few exceptions), demonstrating a...

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

by Maggie Ervin It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that the top ten contractors of the US government are all military-oriented...