In both the United States and Canada there have been sustained grassroots efforts to spotlight the unjust mass incarceration and criminalization of poor people, and especially poor people of color, for drug-related arrests. But there has been too little analysis about the reasons behind and mechanisms of this war, and its economic impact on Mexico and beyond.
One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military’s 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against the country’s Mayan population is the strategy of targeting women with violence.
The Mexican authorities have failed to protect women from increasing levels of violence and discrimination or to ensure those responsible face justice, said Amnesty International in a report handed to a UN body due to […]
A deadly May raid brought the impact of the drug war on local communities in Honduras into the global spotlight. Source: AlterNet A boat riddled with bullet impact marks sits docked at a landing along […]
Source: NACLA Following a two-week vigil in La Paz, frustrated lowland indigenous marchers have decided to return to their native communities. Some 1,500 marchers arrived in the nation’s capital on June 27, after a 62-day, […]
Transnational corporations including Canada’s Rio Tinto Alcan undeterred by political turmoil Source: The Dominion TORONTO—A coup snuck up on South America last month, taking people around the world by surprise. The June 22 ouster of […]
Washington, DC — International relief and development organization Oxfam America joined 90 environmental and human rights organizations in sending a letter to the Peruvian Embassy in Washington calling on the Peruvian government to end escalating human rights abuses […]
The new book “The Drug War in Mexico: Politics, Violence and Neo-Liberalism in the New Narco-Economy,” looks beyond the clichés to examine the causes of the violence associated with illegal drugs trafficking in Mexico. The Latin America Bureau talked to one of its authors, Peter Watt.
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