In Mexico, funding cuts that are a part of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic threaten efforts to search for the over 61,000 disappeared persons in the country. The government body known as the Commission for Assistance to Victims (CEAV) faces significant cuts, which could be as high as […]
If bad people do good things, then are they necessarily bad people? This difficult question is one that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has had to face as he recently acknowledged that drug cartels have been distributing care packages to the public across the country. This movement to accumulate […]
The peak of infections of COVID-19 in Mexico is expected in May, and criminal groups are looking to use the pandemic to achieve their own goals. For 20 years, nearly 200 criminal groups have been active in the country, and in 2019 alone, 34,582 homicides were recorded, making it the […]
Earlier in April, it was reported that the Mafia in Italy and cartels in Mexico have been distributing food and aid packages to impoverished locals suffering at the hands of the pandemic. Given their violent reputation, this benevolence may appear surprising: however, across the world, criminal organisations are set to […]
Since the beginning of major quarantine efforts in March, violent crime rates have largely decreased in some of the most tumultuous parts of El Salvador, Colombia, and Mexico, as well as many other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele closed the country in mid-March and issued a […]
What might happen in Latin America with weak economies, fragile public health systems, high rates of unemployment, and huge inefficiencies in the delivery of other public services, if the continent reaches a peak in the cases of coronavirus infections? Timeline Of Outbreak The first case of COVID-19 in Latin America […]
On the 9th of March tens of thousands of women took part in a 24-hour strike against feminicide and gender-based-violence across Mexico. Lawyers, teachers, students, cleaners, bank tellers, and women from all walks of life skipped work, school and social activities to join the strike which denounced gender-based violence and […]
Every year on International Women’s Day, vast numbers of women around the world march for women’s rights. These strikes have different objectives in every country; in Latin American countries, the strikes were a protest against sexist violence in all its forms and expressions: sexual, social, cultural, political and economic. To […]
Hundreds of people holding the slogan “not one more murder” gathered in front of the National Palace in Mexico City over the last few days, to protest against the murder of a young woman on the 9th February, 2020. Ingrid Escamilla, a 25-year-old girl, was killed brutally by her partner. […]
Destruction of a Native American burial site and a UNESCO recognised natural reserve began this week, in order to make way for President Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall. The site is home to rare species, and sacred burial grounds of the Tohono O’odham Nation, who were not consulted before demolition and […]
On 11 February, a seven-year-old girl was reported missing. According to the prosecutor’s investigation, an unidentified woman picked up the girl from school on before her mother arrived to pick her up, but she did not find her there. Security cameras in the street that have been examined by the […]
It seems that President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador has already recognized the systemic failure of his ‘ Hugs not Bullets’ campaign that made international headlines and brought condemnation from security experts and Mexico’s deep-pocketed American backers. The question now remains how a government whose most notable international effort […]
Despite Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s best efforts to combat the cartel influence through peaceful means, the continuing rise in deaths and the shocking rise in cartel displays of power has meant that the policy of de-escalation and appeasement, that the President’s 2018 electoral policy “Hugs, not Bullets” was based […]
On February 14, women marched to the Presidential Palace in Mexico City, covering the door in fake blood and the Spanish message “Femicide State” as they demanded justice for the gruesome killing of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. Stabbed to death by her husband, then skinned to cover up the crime; images […]
Since the Mexican government deployed troops to fight against drug cartels in 2006, over 61,000 people have disappeared and violence has only increased. Head of Mexico’s National Search Commission, Karla Quintana, expressed the announcement of this huge number as a great pain for both individuals and their families. Along with […]
On Monday the 6th of January, the United States’ government released a public email detailing a new ruling that will see those seeking asylum into the U.S. from Mexico sent to Guatemala as part of a controversial ‘secure third country’ deal. This is in addition to deals signed last year […]
December in Mexico began with a scathing review of its approach to tackling violent drug cartels. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly referred to as AMLO, vowed to be the president of “hugs, not bullets” in response to Mexico’s surging criminal violence. However, this approach has now been brought into […]
On 2 July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican general elections in what has come to be considered a historic victory in Mexico. López Obrador became the first president in recent Mexican history who was not a member of the two parties (PRI-Partido Revolucionario Institucional and PAN-Partido de […]
“Y la culpa no era mía, ni dónde estaba, ni cómo vesía” “and it wasn’t my fault, not where I was, nor what I wore” On the 20th of November 2019, a group of women wearing blindfolds and bandannas staged a protest in Valparaíso, Chile. Amid the widespread anti-government […]
On Nov. 4th, nine members of a renown Mormon family in Northern Mexico were killed, all of them women and children, slaughtered by drug cartel dealers. Due to the increasing insecurity in the area due to cartel violence, more than 100 people, all U.S citizens, have left the states of […]
