Mexico

Erythroxylum: The Condemned Leaf

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

Six Reasons the Drug War is Disastrous for Latin America

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

Immigration: Humane or Inhumane

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

Struggle and Solidarity: Learning the Truth About the Drug War in Mexico

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

Ayotzinapa: 3 years without relief

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

The Drug War Unmasked: Mexico’s Love Triangle

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

WFP Statement on NAFTA Renegotiations

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

Help protect Mexican human rights defenders

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

The Mérida Initiative: Beneath the Surface

Mining in Mexico: the NAFTA connection

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 productio...

Strangers in Their Own Country: A Story of Resistance to Capital Expansion and Struggle for Identity

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

Walking the Talk – Reflections from my trip to Mexico with 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 Chila...

Bringing the Land and People Together in Mexico

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

“The greatest anguish”: forced disappearance in Mexico

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

US Military Aid Destroys Lives of Women in Latin America

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

“Our wish is that the US see us as equals:” A Q&A with Comité Cerezo (Mexico)

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, ...

Rubén Espinosa and journalists under increasing threat in Mexico’s U.S.-propelled drug war

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

Cracks in the Consensus: UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs 2016

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

Six Reasons the Drug War is Disastrous for Latin America

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

La subcontratación de la “seguridad” fronteriza

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

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