16/01/2014 | Frente Externo
Zapatistas at Twenty
There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico's Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.
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19/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Opinion: Kingpin arrest will mean more violence in Mexico
The long-term effects of the capture of 40-year-old Zeta leader will likely lead to more, not less, violence."Now with less central control in the Zetas, we can expect not only more infighting, but increased incursions into illegal activities beside drug trafficking - kidnapping, extortion, preying on migrants, sex trafficking and others that do immeasurable harm to their victims, to families and to communities".
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13/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Plan Colombia for Mexico
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated Wednesday that Mexico and Central America were facing an “insurgency”that requires the equivalent of a Plan Colombia in the region. Her comments immediately raised the ire of the Mexican government and sparked fears of expanded U.S. military intervention.
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07/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's State of Impunity
When international human rights observers rounded a curve on a remote road in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, they found the way blocked by boulders. They decided going forward would be dangerous. But they didn't know that going back would be deadly.
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15/07/2008 | Medio Ambiente
Flooding the Future
When peasant farmers in Cacahuatepec set out to work in their fields in January 2003 they found heavy equipment bulldozing down the corn, fruit trees, and fences they depend on for survival. The indigenous Nahuatl communities of this region in the mountains above Acapulco demanded an explanation from Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission and for months received no answers.
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15/07/2008 | Medio Ambiente
Flooding the Future
When peasant farmers in Cacahuatepec set out to work in their fields in January 2003 they found heavy equipment bulldozing down the corn, fruit trees, and fences they depend on for survival. The indigenous Nahuatl communities of this region in the mountains above Acapulco demanded an explanation from Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission and for months received no answers.
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