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Erythroxylum: The Condemned Leaf
By Liza González Perafán, INDEPAZ One by one, the leaves enter the mouth like bread, breaking up between bites and saliva. They settle in...
Jul 20, 20194 min read


Six Reasons the Drug War is Disastrous for Latin America
by (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on Drugs has contributed mightily to the violence and poverty individuals, families,...
Jul 20, 20194 min read


Immigration: Humane or Inhumane
Our Witness for Peace delegation, Resisting Economic and State Repression, was in Mexico from April 3 to 13, 2018. We were a small but...
Apr 13, 20186 min read


Struggle and Solidarity: Learning the Truth About the Drug War in Mexico
By Luciano A. Ramirez Guerra Our delegation arrived in Mexico City and was greeted by a modern metropolitan environment that was a...
Oct 17, 20173 min read


Ayotzinapa: 3 years without relief
Today, September 26th, 2017, marks the third anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa, at the hands of the...
Sep 25, 20174 min read


The Drug War Unmasked: Mexico’s Love Triangle
by Laura Krasovitzky “The war on drugs has in fact been a strategy to disguise social control and political repression, which serves to...
Sep 12, 20173 min read


WFP Statement on NAFTA Renegotiations
August 16, 2017 Today marks the first official day that NAFTA renegotiations will take place between the U.S., Mexico and Canada,...
Aug 16, 20172 min read


Help protect Mexican human rights defenders
Witness for Peace is extremely concerned about the safety of Oaxacan human rights defenders Rodrigo Flores Peñaloza and Bettina Cruz...
May 9, 20171 min read


Mar 3, 20170 min read


Mining in Mexico: the NAFTA connection
Out of a list of 926 mining projects in Mexico, there are 85 exploration projects from the U.S.A. 21 have been postponed, 23 in...
Aug 11, 20163 min read


Strangers in Their Own Country: A Story of Resistance to Capital Expansion and Struggle for Identity
by Amy Cameron “Prior to 2001, we lived in harmony and tranquility,” Maria Trinidad Ramirez Velasquez (Trini) tells our Witness for Peace...
May 12, 20163 min read


Walking the Talk – Reflections from my trip to Mexico with Witness for Peace
by Ivory Taylor San Juan Chilateca, Oaxaca, Mexico – Our Witness for Peace Midwest delegation arrived in the small town of San Juan...
Apr 26, 20164 min read


Bringing the Land and People Together in Mexico
by Mickey Foley (originally published on April 18, 2016 on the Land Stewardship Project website) On day two of our trip, we...
Apr 22, 20163 min read


“The greatest anguish”: forced disappearance in Mexico
In his state of the union address a few weeks ago, Mexican president Peña Nieto acknowledged that this past year had been “difficult.” In...
Sep 25, 20158 min read


US Military Aid Destroys Lives of Women in Latin America
By Sara Velimirovic In Latin America, between 2006 and 2011, the female prison population increased from 40,000 to more than 74,000,...
Aug 15, 20153 min read


“Our wish is that the US see us as equals:” A Q&A with Comité Cerezo (Mexico)
1. 21 years after NAFTA went into effect, neoliberalism is still making inroads (is alive and well) in Mexico. Over the last year or so,...
Aug 14, 20153 min read


Rubén Espinosa and journalists under increasing threat in Mexico’s U.S.-propelled drug war
by Sonja Dahl, WFP intern Rubén Espinosa, a photojournalist based in the Mexican state of Veracruz who covered social movements, thought...
Aug 11, 20153 min read


Cracks in the Consensus: UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs 2016
by Zara Snapp* For the past 100 years, drug prohibition has been defended around the world (with a few exceptions), demonstrating a...
Aug 10, 20153 min read


Six Reasons the Drug War is Disastrous for Latin America
by (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on Drugs has contributed mightily to the violence and poverty individuals, families,...
Aug 7, 20154 min read


La subcontratación de la “seguridad” fronteriza
por Maggie Ervin Probablemente no es una sorpresa que los diez principales contratistas del gobierno estadounidense son o están...
Aug 4, 20153 min read

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