El Instituto para las Mujeres en Migración (IMM), una ONG que defiende los derechos de las mujeres migrantes dentro de México, encontró en un estudio que han secuestrado a 418 migrantes que esperaban en el lado mexicano de la frontera…
She stopped being a victim to become a survivor and then an activist. Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz was called for months “the gordibuena [chubby and curvy] of Huachinango,” the gordibuena of Puebla –where she is from –.” This happened in…
Dejó de ser víctima para ser sobreviviente y luego activista. A Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz la llamaron durante meses “la gordibuena de Huachinango”, la “gordibuena de Puebla” –de donde es originaria–, en un universo tan amorfo como dañino como el…
Instead of land, forests and mountain ranges, the satellite image of that piece of America displays stacked red crosses, also violet and blue. Crosses that mean death –murders–. Feminicides accumulated in Mexico and counted over the last three years. A…
En vez de tierra, verdor y cadenas montañosas, en la imagen satelital de ese trozo de América hay cruces amontonadas, rojas, también violetas y azules. Las cruces que denotan muerte: asesinatos. Los feminicidios, acumulados en México y contados durante los…
Mexico is living through an inflexion point. After two failed attempts, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO, the acronym of his full name) was triumphantly elected on July 1, 2018. He received 53% of the votes—obtaining 30 points more than…
Earlier this week, we saw terrible images of repression by American authorities against mothers and children in the U.S.-Mexico border. These people arrived to the frontier on foot, walking thousands of miles from Honduras and other Central American countries. In…
In this conversation between Arturo Sarukhan, former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States and Earl Anthony “Tony” Wayne, former Ambassador of the United States to Mexico candidly discuss why the relationship between the United States and Mexico have been…
Mexico has a huge problem of fuel theft. And Colombia has some experience on that. In an interview with Mexican daily El Universal, Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cárdenas said Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex could learn how to combat fuel…
Bogotá, Ciudad de México, Buenos Aires y Lima están entre las ciudades más peligrosas del mundo para las mujeres que usan transporte público. Las primeras tres y Quito se juntaron recientemente en una iniciativa para combatir del problema, la Transport…