Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Mexico'
Blood Along the Border: Political Activism and Violence in Juarez, Mexico
by Dawn Paley, Toward Freedom, USA - Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the...
Barbie Chihuahua: New Mexican ‘Dolls Of The World’ Barbie Carries Passport, Sparks Outrage
by Jill Heller, International Business Times, USA - A new Mexican Barbie in Mattel’s “Dolls of the World” series, which was launched to appeal to a more “diverse generation” of customers and boasts a number of dolls from Latin America,...
Journalism Falls Victim to Mexico Narco Wars
by Ana Arana and Daniela Guazo, Knight Center for Journalism, USA - A lack of official government information including credible crime reports has further complicated the media´s job, an investigation by Mexico City-based Fundacion MEPI found....
“Walking the True Word Around the World”: State Violence, Global Solidarity, and a New Campaign to Support the Zapatistas
by Jessica Davies, Upside Down World, Canada - In early September a large number of political party members in paramilitary-style groups carrying high-calibre firearms invaded the Zapatista communities of Comandante Abel and Unión Hidalgo, firing shots....
Public Security - the Greatest Casualty of the Drug War
by Laura Carlsen, America's Program, Mexico - Why does the U.S. government continue to send millions of tax dollars to fight the drug war, as they close down schools for lack of funds?...
'Yo Soy 132' Mexican Student Movement Looks to the Future
by Ela Stapley, Upside Down World, Canada - “It started out as an act of solidarity with the Ibero students, but it soon became about much more... The movement just grew, we were 20 universities then 90. Now we are...
Juarez Rebounds...Sort of
by Sarah Hill, Boston Review, USA - Juarez, Mexico is slowly recovering from decades of violent crime fueled by drug cartels....
Women Secure a Third of Mexican Parliament
by Anayeli Garcia Martinez, IPS, Italy - Female candidates are poised to occupy an unprecedented third of the seats in Mexico’s bicameral parliament when preliminary results for the Jul.1 election are confirmed....
Mexico Drug War Displaces Families in Sinaloa Highlands
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, USA - In Mexico, at least 1,500 Sinaloa families in the Sierra Madre highlands have fled fighting between the Zetas gang and the Sinaloa drug cartel in the last month....
Santiago Xanica: A Zapotec Village's Fight for Autonomy in Mexico
by Emma Volonté, Upside Down World, Canada - In 1998, the state government of Oaxaca approved a law that allowed the communities to govern themselves by the “uses and customs” of their traditional indigenous system. Gerardo Froylán González Cruz explains...
Tensions Flare over Vancouver-owned Mine in Oaxaca
by Dawn Paley, Vancouver Media Co-Op, Canada - “The social and political conflicts that have ended the lives of three people are due to the appearance of the mining company, without the consent of the people, and not to the...
Mexico Authorities Unravel Child Trafficking Ring
by Olga Rodriguez, Associated Press, USA - Unlike Guatemala or China, Mexico has not been a popular destination for foreigners looking to adopt, perhaps because the process, done by law, is complicated. "The legal adoption process in Mexico is difficult,...
Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
by Guadalupe Cruz Jaimes, IPS, Italy - 2012 will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of the implementation of a trade agreement that opens...
Dying for the Truth: Drug Cartels Target Journalists in Mexico
by Helena Hyvönen, European Journalism Centre, Netherlands - Mexico is now considered to be the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere in which to practice journalism....
Mexico: Peace Caravan "Has Made Us Feel Stronger"
by Daniela Pastrana, IPS, Italy - With a huge hug, Olga Reyes from Chihuahua, who has lost six family members in Mexico's wave of drug-related violence, greets Araceli Rodríguez from Mexico state, the mother of a young federal police officer...
Mexico: Portrayals of a Culture-- of Violence?
by Juliana Rincón, Global Voices, Netherlands - Who else can step up to shoulder the responsibility of helping solve this violence problem? Do the media: mass and independent, have a part to play in this struggle?...
The Monterrey Massacre: A New Nadir in Mexico's Drug War
by Karla Zabludovsky, Guardian, UK - The casino attack has set a damning new precedent in Mexico. Cartels will play dirtier than ever as a bid for dominance in an escalating retaliatory war. The massacre has unlocked the next level...
Democracy in Mexico: The Past, Present, and Future
by Carol Ciriaco, COHA, USA - In an era characterized by corruption and a deadly ongoing war against drugs—one that has progressively hindered the ability of the federal government to ensure its national security—a truly representative government free of corruption...
Mexican Drug Violence Fueled by U.S. Guns
by Katie Soltis, COHA, USA - The standard ammunition of many semiautomatic rifles can even pierce through the armor worn by police officers. As drug trafficking organizations have acquired these more dangerous and expensive weapons, it has become even harder...
Redefining Security: Human Rights and Economic Justice
by Lydia Alpízar Durán and Masum Momaya, OpenDemocracy, UK - Three weeks ago, US President Obama touted the killing of Osama bin Laden as a victory in the global war on terror and a symbol that “justice has been done.”...
Obama's Mexicogate?
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration....
The Reyes Salazar Family and the Hidden Toll Behind Mexico's Execution-meter
by Kristin Bricker, Upside Down World, Canada - With an average of one person killed every hour in the drug war (and eight per day in Ciudad Juarez alone), newspapers don't even bother to report the dead's names, let alone...
Reluctant Heroes
by Lydia Cacho, Eurozine, Austria - International recognition offers a degree of protection to investigative reporters. But being in the limelight presents a new set of dilemmas....
The Murdered Women of Juarez
by Laura Carlsen, Eurasia Review, UK - Ciudad Juarez in recent years has been described as a no-man’s Land, where legal institutions have lost control to the armed force of drug cartels. The femicides show us, though, that the causal...
Slain Mother Is a Stark Reminder of Women’s Brutal Fate in Mexico
by Martha Tagle, France 24, France - Marisela Escobedo was holding a vigil for her murdered daughter in front of the state governor’s office in Chihuahua City last Thursday when a man drove up and shot her in the head....
Mega-Cities
by Shannon Young, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Mexico City is the largest urban area in the Western Hemisphere. Its size, location in a valley, and inconsistent urban planning have contributed to a number of environmental challenges. While its smog is...
Dispatch from Juarez: Fear and Happiness at War
by Debbie Nathan, Color Lines, USA - Today my old stomping grounds are a war zone. Thirty thousand Mexicans have died in the past four years in a crossfire involving narcotrafficking organizations, street gangs, and corrupt politicos, police and military....
With 28,000 Killed Since 2006, Movement for Drug Legalization in Mexico Takes Hold
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, USA - The Mexican government’s policy against drug trafficking over the past few years has been to increasingly militarize the conflict with the only tangible result being a skyrocketing death toll. Now a growing movement...
Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays
by Daniela Pastrana, IPS, Italy - In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex...
Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
by Monica Alonzo, Phoenix New Times, USA - Phoenix is labeled the kidnapping capital of the United States because of people- and drug-smuggling out of Mexico. It's a catchphrase that politicians like U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona use...
Women Electrical Workers at Center of Struggle for Jobs
by Daniela Pastrana, Third World Resurgence, Malaysia - In Mexico, a new generation of women workers is emerging to defend labour rights. The seven-month struggle waged by the state employees laid off to make way for the privatisation of...
Juarez Chic? Fashion Companies Make Wrong Turn at the Border
by Emily Schmall, Daily Finance, USA - Models in white dresses of tattered lace in photographs released in June appear to be the ghosts of the city's female victims and the opal nail polish reflects the grim factories people in...
The Nature of the U.S.-Mexico Drug War: Equal Responsibility, Unequal Costs
by Devin Parsons, Guatemala Times, Guatemala - Mexico is suffering. Thousands of its citizens are trapped in the unyielding currents of the drug war, unable to escape the relentless stream of violence, poverty, and despair tearing through the country....
The War for Drugs
by Sarah Hill, Boston Review, USA - How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city. In April 2007 Ciudad Juárez—the sprawling Mexican border city girding El Paso, Texas—won a Foreign Direct Investment magazine award for “North American large cities of...
A Few Lessons from Colombia for Mexico
by Elyssa Pachico, Colombia Reports, Colombia - Last week’s disappearance of former Mexican presidential candidate, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, has jolted the country’s social elites, who previously may have thought they were immune from the drug war that’s claimed...
The Biggest Loser in Colombia's Presidential Campaign is the War on Drugs
by Elyssa Pachico, Colombia Reports, Colombia - Polls come and go, and personally, I’m more interested in another number that so far has received depressingly little attention during Colombia’s presidential race: 22,700.Said amount is inexorably linked to another key...
U.S. Drug Policy Feeds Violence in Mexico
by Dunya Cope, Common Dreams, USA - How many days of not being able to feed your children would it take for you to be tempted by the drug trade?...
Children of Mexico’s Disappeared Seek Justice
by Mari Hayman, Latin American Dispatch, USA - Aleida Gallangos is not easily deterred. Over five years ago, when she realized that the only way to find her long-lost brother in the United States was to comb through all...
Environmental and Health Concerns Don't Stop at U.S.-Mexican Border
by Kari Lydersen, OnEarth, USA - “Why aren’t the multinational companies that are making billions from cheap labor paying for infrastructure and the problems they’re creating?”...
US Immigration: 'Normalization' vs. Comprehensive Reform
by Rosa Martha Villarreal, Mexidata, USA - Can there be a humane solution that does not disrupt those portions of the economy dependent on migrant labor and does not traumatize families?...
The Case Of A Confidential Informant Gone Wrong
by Carrie Khan, NPR, USA - Confidential informants — people who pose as criminals so they can provide information to the police or some government agency — have helped crack some major U.S. cases....
Child X-ing
by Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer, USA - Del Rio's controversial crackdown on border-crossing students....
Murder Capital of the World
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Ciudad Juarez now holds the world record in homicides per capita. This border city of two million is the frontline of one of the most violent and most ill-conceived war of...
Born into Cellblocks
by Penny De Los Santos, Mother Jones, USA - In Nuevo Laredo, children do time with the cartels....
Women in Black March on Ciudad Juarez
by Frontera Nortesur, New America Media, USA - A caravan aimed at upholding women’s rights and stopping violence against women in Ciudad Juarez and Mexico is headed to the U.S. border. Organized by Women in Black along with other women’s...
Parents of Lost Daughters Fear 'Femicide' in Ciudad Juárez
by Hannah Strange, Times Online, UK - Years after “the femicides” stopped officially, the streets of Ciudad Juárez — already the centre of the drug war in Mexico — are once again consuming women. This time nobody is talking about...
Mexican Women Fight "Personhood" Laws
by Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, USA - Over the last 15 months, 16 Mexican states have approved constitutional reforms defining personhood as beginning at the moment of conception, which means that all civil rights have to be protected, including...
The Great Swine Flu Cover-Up
by Laura Carlsen, America's Program, USA - Mexico has been considered the laboratory of globalization since it initiated the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. In April of 2009 a deadly virus germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions...
The Judicial System in Mexico
by Nancy J. Blake and Kathleen Blake Bohne, Open Democracy, UK - President Calderon has committed himself to a much needed judicial reform in Mexico. But Mexico's history of centralisation, corruption, anti-clericalism and its culture of secrecy are a challenge...
Lack of North American Leadership
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Times of crisis require bold leadership and innovative solutions. Crises demand the casting aside of old, failed paradigms and the mobilization of people to create new ones....
U.S. War on Drugs Is Killing Mexico
by Diane Francis, Huffington Post, USA - The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family. The level of good will and cooperation has been incredible, but...
Full Frame: Born behind Bars
by Caroline Bennett, Global Post, USA - Behind the ominous barbed wire and high concrete walls of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in Mexico City, sits a cheerful nursery school with colorful walls, a maze of swings and slides and...
Femicides of Juárez: Violence Against Women in Mexico
by Nidya Sarria, Council on Hemisphere Affairs, USA - Juárez is nicknamed “the capital of murdered women.” The border city of 1.5 million inhabitants draws tens of thousands of young women from small, poor towns with $55-a-week jobs in maquiladoras...
Mexican Resort Town Doesn't Let Issue of Human Rights Abuses Relax
by Mariana Llamas-Cendon, Latina Lista, USA - The city of Manzanillo, the main tourist destination of the Mexican state of Colima, houses a very unusual attraction. Something a visitor or a resident would never expect to see in a beach...
Plan Mexico Reality Check in US Senate
by Kristin Bricker, Narcosphere, USA - The House version of the bill makes it very clear that the House has no regard for human rights in Mexico and never has. By taking away the flimsy conditions on a bill that...
Police Raid Communities around Trinidad Mine
by Komala Ramachandra, The Dominion, Canada - Oaxacan civilians blockade road, occupy mine to keep Fortuna off their land. Fear of environmental contamination and dwindling water resources are motivating the nearly two-month-long permanent civilian occupation of the mine and all...
Mexico’s Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
by Laura Carlsen, Americas Mexico Blog, Mexico - Mexico’s grand experiment in sink or swim neoliberalism included privatization and erosion of health systems and basic services. “The notorious delay in the response of the federal government can be attributed in...
Fear Descends On Ciudad Juarez As Girls Go Missing
by Monica Ortiz Uribe, NPR, USA - Drug warfare is a plague in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico — since January 2008, the death toll has reached an unprecedented 2,000 people....
Mexico’s Progress in U.S. Interest
by Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Marifeli Pérez-Stable, USA - While few countries are as important to the United States, Mexico is unlikely to get the Obama administration’s undivided attention....
Mexico's Immigration Problem Also a "Red Flag" at Home
by Laura Carlsen, CIP Americas Policy, USA - In the first two years of the Felipe Calderon administration, Mexico has become a focal point in the violation of the human rights of immigrants even as it criticizes the treatment of...
Bajo Juarez Campaigns for the Dead Women of Ciudad Juarez
by Deborah Bonello, La Plaza, Mexico - Lilia Alejandra is one of the 370 women who have disappeared in Mexico's Chihuahua state since 1993. Her story is the main focus of Bajo Juárez, a documentary film that was five years...
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