Tag: Central America
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Debunking the Wars: A Call for Local Understanding of Violence in Mexico & Central America
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” This famous quote by photographer Robert Capa could apply just as well to the way in which violence in Mexico and Central America is currently analyzed.
Read More“Ya los jóvenes son maestros pa’ la raya”: Amapola, agricultura e identidad indígena en la sierra de Nayarit
Este artículo es el Capítulo n°2 de la serie “La violencia toma lugar. Tierra, mercados y poder en el México rural”. Introducción La primera persona
Read MoreTrascender las guerras: Desentrañar las violencias en México y América Central desde lo local
“Si tus fotos no son suficientemente buenas es porque no te has acercado lo suficiente”. Esta famosa frase del fotógrafo Robert Capa podría usarse para describir la forma en que, en la actualidad, se analiza la violencia en México y América Central.
Read MoreNo More Opium for the Masses
These maps were designed to illustrate Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Nathaniel Morris and Benjamin T. Smith‘s article, No More Opium for the Masses
Read MoreCuba: Lifting the Embargo…or Not
Since the 17th of December 2014, and the highly broadcast and simultaneous announcement by Barack Obama and Raul Castro of renewed relations between their two
Read MoreA Narco-Trafficking Reality : Transcending the Mexican Press
– Los Tigres del Norte In Mexico there exists a no more convincing manifestation of the close relationship between the police, criminals and journalists
Read MoreThe Right to Grow Old V: Return and Turn Around
“Victims of the migrant route are forced with difficult decisions once they return to the country. Often times deportees are shunned by their communities, becoming
Read MoreThe Right to Grow Old IV: Diaspora
Honduran migrants who make it across the countless perils on the migrate route gravitate towards areas where they know someone from the old country who can
Read MoreThe Right to Grow Old III: Not my America, The Border
I accompanied one of the many border militias of the Rio Grande Valley on one of their nightly patrols on the lookout for ‘illegals.’ The following is
Read MoreThe Right to Grow Old II: Seeking Shelter Amidst Beasts
I visited shelters and train yards in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. I spoke with newly crossed Central American migrants in Tapachula and Arriaga where they
Read MoreThe Right to Grow Old I: First Borders, The Honduran Migrant Crisis
Migration is born as a result of different rights becoming elusive in 21st century Honduras: the right to housing, the right to a dignified source of
Read MoreArmed Militias: For a State Strategy in Michoacán, Mexico
Introduction Ever since the self-defense groups appeared in February 2013, Michoacán finds itself in a profound political reconfiguration process mainly led by armed groups, be
Read MorePositive Silence. Between State and Cartels in Mexico : a Village in the Western Sierra Madre
At a time where the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is noting the high number of violence refugees in Mexico[note]ICHR audience in Washington on 1
Read MoreViolence and Voyeurism: A Guide on How (Not) to Write About Honduras
When referring to Honduras you must make the reader understand that Honduras is the original Banana Republic, no exceptions. The country is now more so
Read MoreThe Downward Spiral of the Northern Triangle in Central America
Mara 18 (©Archivo Caracas, 6toPoder) Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have entered a perilously new era in their history. Caught between the rise in criminal
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