One of the most important points that Mexican civil society should take on is analysis and investigation of the context of the crime
Laura Carlsen
Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a member of the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders’ Initiative. Before joining the Americas Program, Carlsen worked in Equipo Pueblo, was a correspondent for Latin Trade magazine, editor of Business Mexico, and a freelance writer. She has been a gender and communications consultant with Just Associates (JASS) and the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and policy consultant and writer for the International Organization for Migrations.
Over 90 percent of Mexicans have lost faith in their political parties. What comes next?
Recently, thousands of students marched from Tlatelolco Square, site of the notorious student massacre of 1968, to Zocalo in Mexico City in solidarity with the 43 disappeared students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero
Thousands of students marched from Tlatelolco Square, site of the notorious student massacre of 1968, to the Zocalo in Mexico City Thursday night in solidarity with the 43 disappeared students
The United States has spent approximately $3 billion to fund the so-called war on drugs in Mexico
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The United States has always had mixed feelings about its immigrants. The country and its people take pride in their history as…
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