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...
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May 18, 20123 min read
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...
May 4, 20123 min read
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...
Apr 26, 20125 min read
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...
Apr 23, 20122 min read
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...
Mar 21, 20123 min read
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...
Mar 7, 20124 min read
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...
Nov 2, 20118 min read
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...
Oct 27, 20114 min read
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...
Oct 17, 20115 min read
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...
Oct 7, 20112 min read
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...
Sep 16, 20116 min read
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...
Aug 16, 20112 min read
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...
Jul 15, 20113 min read
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...
Jul 15, 20113 min read
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...
May 9, 20113 min read
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...
May 8, 20113 min read
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...
Apr 8, 20111 min read
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...
Apr 6, 20112 min read
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...
Mar 17, 20113 min read
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...
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