Everyone is pointing fingers in the wake of the murder of 43 students, but who's to blame? From openDemocracy.
Foxconn, the biggest electronic manufacturer worldwide, has strong assembly operations in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-US border. With abundant migrant labor-force, extreme social violence and multinational production are among the main factors that characterize this operation.
We need to raise awareness about how the rich oil nations keep subsidising oil extraction whilst agreeing that the world needs to cut emissions. Taxpayers cannot passively let their governments do this.
Newly released surveys show that Mexicans accept human rights ideas as their own. What impact will this have on the country’s human rights crisis? A contribution from Mexico to Human Rights: Mass or Elite Movement? Español
What differentiates the escrache from merely a dangerous form of un-regulated retribution? Crucial to this question is the concept of containment.
The use of international norms coupled with the solidarity of international support has been a successful formula that has meant relative peace for the community for nearly 10 years.
Multinational corporations are increasing their control over valuable fresh water supplies, particularly in Latin America. But the people of El Salvador are fighting back.
Honduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
Poverty, misogyny, and Christian fundamentalism in El Salvador lie behind the prison sentences of up to forty years handed down to seventeen women who were arrested for the crime of abortion, but sentenced for murder.
The Mexican government has shown remarkable inertia since the apparent police abduction and subsequent gang murder of students in Guerrero. Now it hopes capital will not prove a coward as it denationalises oil reserves.
