Mexico

Systematic Threats Force Mexican Labor Rights Organization CAT to Close its Office

by Carlin Christy, WfP Mexico Repeated attacks including kidnapping and death threats have forced the members of The Center of Support...

Freedom of Expression in Mexico Threatened as Journalists are Systematically Targeted

by Moravia de la O, WFP Mexico This past Sunday, authorities found journalist Rene Orta Salgado’s body in the trunk of his car in the...

Estamos Hasta la Madre! Voices from Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity

By Witness for Peace Mexico Team “I’ve been looking for my son for a year and one month! Do those of you who haven’t lost a child know...

Hope and Strength in the Face of Violence, Grief, and Despair

By Claudia Ana Rodriguez, WFP Mexico This past weekend, my fellow team member Carlin Christy, and I went to Cuernavaca, a small city in...

Drug Policy and its Consequences: Summit of the Americas

During the Summit of the Americas this month, leaders from the Americas came together to discuss pressing issues in the region. One of...

In the city, you only eat if you have money

From February 25 to March 4 I was in Oaxaca, Mexico as coordinator of a Witness for Peace delegation exploring links between migration...

Defending Corn and Culture in Rural Oaxaca

By Carlin Christy, WfP Mexico Team Corn is sacred in Mexico. Indigenous groups, of which there are 16 in Oaxaca, consider corn to be a...

Lessons From Oaxaca to Occupy Movement: A Delegate Reports Back

By Reid Mukai CAGJ Co-Chair and Delegate on joint CAGJ/Witness for Peace Delegation in September 2011, “Food, Farms, and the Roots of...

The Drug War and Migration Collide

By Claudia Rodriguez Witness for Peace’s Mexico-based International Team The biggest news coming out of Mexico is the violence as a...

The Untold Stories of Female Migrants

By Amanda Tello Witness for Peace Delegations Assistant Every year, thousands of migrants risk their lives on a treacherous journey...

Fleeing an unsecure world, only to come to one that you still feel unsafe in!

By Emmy Andersson Intern, Witness for Peace Have you ever thought, “I am glad I was born here, I am glad I was born in a family that...

Mexico’s Caravan for Peace Unites Voices of Resistance in Oaxaca

By the Mexico-based International Team “Today confusion, fear, distrust, shamelessness, fraud, death, and impunity reign. But in our...

Migrant’s Dream of Reaching the U.S. Cut Short in Mexico

By Carlin Christy International Team – Mexico Like many other Central Americans, nineteen-year-old Julio Fernando Cardona Agustín left...

On the Migrant Trail in Veracruz and Oaxaca

By Tony Macias International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace While in the Mexican state of Veracruz this week, Witness for Peace’ s...

Those Left Behind: Supporting Migrant Families in Acayucan, Veracruz

By Carlin J. Christy International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace Friday nights are always busy at the bus stations in Mexico. Overnight...

Live from Mexico City: the No + Sangre march

By Tony Macias International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace For the past three days, thousands of Mexicans have been marching toward...

Live from Oaxaca: Mass Mobilization against the Drug War

By Claudia Ana Rodriguez and Carlin Christy International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace Queremos escuelas, queremos trabajos, queremos...

Photos from the Peace March in Oaxaca, Mexico

On April 6, 2011 protests erupted throughout Mexico, calling for an end to the violence and for the U.S.-backed Mexican military to end...

UN Urges the Mexican Government to Stop Using the Army in Anti-Drug Operations; Mexican Society Marc

By Moravia de la O International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace This evening thousands of demonstrators will take to the streets all...

Oaxacans Protecting Land and Culture: Citizens’ March in Defense of the Rio Verde

By Tony Macias International Team – Mexico Witness for Peace On March 14, the International Day against Dams, thousands gathered in the...

{"items":["5deece3eca98540017cf84b3","5deece4b22b66a0017be364f","5deece4f0faf720017d966b4","5deece539e8dd50017a92fb3","5deece5429ba9a0017565dfc","5deece5fca98540017cf84b4","5deece657259160017e76473","5deeceaf29ba9a0017565dfe","5deeceb06cf5ba0017785eb9","5deecebb197e45001762c313","5deecec59e8dd50017a92fb4","5deeced0e49c870017673292","5deecedb9acab9001736f355","5deecee0827eba00178b89a7","5deecee2faa56a0017a02b02","5deecefd29ba9a0017565e02","5deeceffb311ca001719b12b","5deecf06e49c870017673295","5deecf08b99f30001851d296","5deecf146e6cd60017dafbcd"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":30,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":32,"galleryMargin":0,"scatter":0,"rotatingScatter":"","chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCropRatios":"","columnWidths":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":true,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryTextAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"nothing","fullscreen":true,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","slideAnimation":"SCROLL","scrollDirection":0,"scrollDuration":400,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imagePlacementAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"jsonStyleParams":"","gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":1060,"allowTitle":true,"allowContextMenu":true,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"itemBorderColor":{"value":"rgba(204, 204, 204, 0)"},"showVideoPlayButton":true,"galleryLayout":2,"targetItemSize":1060,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":1060,"galleryWidth":1092,"galleryHeight":0,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}

1 2 3

COMMENTARY

Commentary

Videos

Publications