American President Donald Trump wants to categorize Mexican drug cartels as foreign “terrorist organizations”. His announcement came after nine American women and children were killed by members of a drug cartel in Mexico on Nov. 4, 2019. Three women and...
Nothing characterised Donald Trump’s presidential campaign more than his penchant for making new deals, after tearing apart or renegotiating existing ones. Be it the nuclear agreement with Iran or brokering better terms of trade with China, no one was safe...
Global demand for avocados has exposed farmers to increasingly violent attacks, as gangs and drug cartels respond to “green gold”, a highly profitable industry in the country. Kidnappings, extortion and theft are now a present part of farmers’ lives in...
The Mexican drug cartels strike again and this time only a few miles away from United States soil. A death toll that recalls war zones such as Syria, Libya or even Somalia in the 1990s, but this time it’s a...
Abrazos, no balazos – so goes Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s political mantra. Hugs, not bullets. There’s been plenty of both in Mexico’s blood-soaked month of murder. The newly elected president has pledged to end his nation’s violence epidemic, but the...
The brutal murder of three women and six children by Mexican drug cartels marks a new low in US-Mexico relations. Those killed were part of a Mormon religious community which has sought to build a life in the rural areas...
E exactly 25 years since the movement began, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has changed profoundly. In Chiapas the five great caracoles (Zapatista self-ruled areas) are now acknowledged self-governing districts, though poorly tolerated. And what was founded as a no-global movement has ended up being globalised, becoming media-friendly and touristic.
On 1 January 1994, NAFTA, the free trade agreement signed between the United States, Canada and Mexico, officially entered into force. That same day, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation occupied seven towns in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. From...
The water and the mud of the Rio Grande swallows up souls and life. It is an insatiable monster which takes, pulling in everything which comes by it. All it takes is a single misstep or a fast and abnormal...
(Tijuana) Martín de la Cruz Roja washes the inside of a Ford van in front of the morgue. Nobody accompanies him to fetch the corpses of the city tonight. Since he started his service at the end of the afternoon,...
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