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Published in: openSecurityDeals with the devilTalk of a pact with criminals is beyond the pale in Mexico’s presidential election campaign. But the tentative...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCardboard Britain: the UK at Mexico's Festival of Cultural Friendship
Mexico City's historic avenue Paseo de la Reforma is hosting its annual Festival of Cultural Friendship. Far from a...
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Published in: HomeThe Mexico you didn’t see (this Adventure World Travel Summit)
Despite what the Mexican Federal government would have us believe, especially since taking presidency of the G20...
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Published in: HomeThis is Maria. She will end the War on Drugs
Maria is a composite character based on many Mexican victims of the drug war - their words and actions - who...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of mourning
Last April more than 35,000 people marched in Cuernavaca, Mexico, following the murder of a teenager. Four years...
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Published in: 50.50Mexico: the war on drugs is becoming a war on women
Women human rights defenders in Mexico are increasingly targeted, often by government forces, since drug war...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Mexican penitentiary system: how prisons became tools for the cartels
Far from being an instrument aimed at fighting crime and reintegrating former inmates in society, Mexican prisons...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico’s war on drugs: can you expect the military to function as police?
A side-effect of the war on drugs launched by President Calderon was to involve the army in carrying out police...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of January 5th 2012
2011 was a watershed year in drug policy all over the globe. The American and Canadian governments seemed to embrace...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico, war crimes and a slippery slope
The drug war in Mexico has left tens of thousands of people dead and the country in peril. What difference will a...
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Published in: openSecurityIn the shadows of globalisation: drug violence in Mexico and Central America
The wave of violence afflicting Mexico and the northern triangle of Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El...
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Published in: HomeThe courage of Cheran: organizing against violenceMistrust in government systems of rule has led the town of Cherán in Mexico to create its own institutions. The...
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Published in: HomeMexico's parallel worlds
It is strange how you have to go abroad to see the ability of wildly divergent realities to persist, side-by-side,...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of December 1st 2011
Local officials in both British Columbia and Amsterdam wrangle with their respective national governments on the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 24th 2011
While governments around the globe debate on which direction to go in revising drug policy, the American military...
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Published in: HomeInside Mexico’s maze of mirrorsMexico’s government has led a five-year war against organized crime that has turned parts of the country into sites...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 2nd 2011
Following the successful openDemocracy Conference, ‘After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World’;...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 3rd 2011
We lead this week with a look at a new Open Society report assessing the Portuguese government's rejection of the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 21st 2011
This week we lead with the alarming news that Irina Teplinskaya, friend of the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 14th 2011
With a startling 400% rise in the number of women incarcerated for federal crimes in Mexico since 2007, we lead this...
