Source: The Americas Blog CEPR Co-Director Mark examines how the Mexican economy has fared under 20 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), in a new column in The Guardian. The answer is […]
Being close to Miguel Alemán, operational base of the paramilitaries of Desarrollo, Paz y Justicia, the small Chol Maya community of Susuclumil (Municipality of Tila) had been chosen to host the pre-hearing of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (TPP, as per its Spanish acronym), in a chapter that is focused on the counterinsurgency war unleashed in Chiapas after the 1994 Zapatista uprising.
Mexico City’s extensive subway system, constantly packed with its 5 million daily users, has just become one of the most expensive public transit systems in the world. A basic daily commute in the city can account for a minimum of one sixth of one’s daily salary. Confronted by this daunting reality, hundreds of residents participated in turnstile jumping protests in the majority of major train stations on the first day of the fare hike.
Source: La Jornada For the Mexican elites, similar winds are blowing to those which blew 20 years ago. Much like Enrique Peña Nieto today, at that time Carlos Salinas de Gortari felt invincible. His project […]
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation More than a quarter of Colombia’s 1.4 million Indians have been forced to flee their tribal lands in recent decades, the head of the government’s programme to protect indigenous peoples has […]
The Amazon activist, Chico Mendes, was murdered outside the door of his house on 22 December 1998. Jan Rocha, who met him, looks at his legacy. Source: Latin America Bureau The first and last time […]
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