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Published in: PodcastsBorders & Belonging: Why we build border walls
Since the 1990s, the world has seen a spike in border wall construction. What is driving the increase?
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow Latin American women are winning the battle for abortion rights
Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have recently legalised or decriminalised abortion. Could Chile be next?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow can the deadly violence against Mexican journalists be stopped?
Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been...
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Published in: Podcasts: FeatureHow did a journalist who knew she would be killed live?
Regina Martínez suffered threats and censorship. She revealed Mexico’s corruption, organised crime and human rights...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMexican women win abortion rights, state by state
Slowly but steadily, Mexican women are gaining access to legal abortion – despite right-wing politicians and...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisMexico once led the way on climate policies. Now, it has taken a step backwards
As it steers towards fossil fuels, the Latin American nation is on a path opposite to the objectives of the Paris Agreement
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisA feminist foreign policy for Spain
Spain advocates for building a feminist foreign policy and is taking the first steps to do so. But where do you begin?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisMexico’s recent election violence can’t be blamed on organized crime gangs alone
Up to 150 people were killed during the politically polarized campaign, with candidates, local officials,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs AMLO undermining democracy in Mexico?
Some say the president is breathing new life into the country’s ossified institutions, but there are good reasons to...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureLatinas for marijuana! Meet the women fighting to decriminalise cannabis in Mexico
Feminists say new proposals to legalise the recreational use of cannabis must go hand in hand with women’s rights
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin America
This year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela sends oxygen and doctors to the Brazilian Amazon
At the same time, Mexico cedes vaccines to poor countries while the U.S. and Russia refuse to join COVAX.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaRevision of US Anti-Drug Policy will benefit all of Latin America
A key report published by the US Congress provides a glimpse into what the fight against organized crime could look...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe Plebeian Populism of López Obrador
Economic inequality as the serpent’s egg.Español
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Opinion‘They took them alive. Alive we want them back’: race, class and enforced disappearances in Latin America
"Vivos" is a film about the pain and ongoing struggle of the families of 43 Mexican students who disappeared in 2014...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPolice fire on femicide protest in Cancún, Mexico
The femicide of a 20-year-old girl on the Mexican Caribbean coast adds to a pandemic of bloody murders that do not...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationPrisons, Covid-19 and Mexico’s permanent war
In Mexico, the aftermath of the war on drugs ripples through every aspect of the present, including Covid-19. As for...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhat the US arrest of former Defense Minister tells about drug traffickers and the military in Mexico
Mexico’s lack of commitment to dismantling the cartels and their criminal enterprises is exposed by the US arrest of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMexican morgues are full of infamy
More than 289,000 people have been killed, and 73,000 disappeared between 2006 and 2019 in Mexico. The publication...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEnvironmental human rights defenders in Mexico: The issue of structural violence
The cause of systematic violations lies in the imbalance of power between the State and local communities.