Mexico

What Goes Unsaid

Machismo devastatingly exposed

Mexican novelist Emiliano Monge exposes the spiritual vacuum at the heart of machismo and the bleakness of Mexican patriarchal politics.ÌýBarry Healy reviews.

Bonafont pplant, Mexico.

Mexico: Indigenous activists launch global campaign against water bottling transnationals

Twenty Indigenous Nahua communities in Mexico, together with hundreds of other organisations, are calling for a boycott of water bottling companies, reports Tamara Pearson.

Journalists protest in Puebla Mexico. Photo: Tamara Pearson

'Its a big mistake to be a journalist in Mexico'

Last year, Mexico was named the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, after Afghanistan. A recent wave of assassinations has sparked nationwide protest action, reports Tamara Pearson.

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Mexico decriminalises abortion in historic ruling

Mexico’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that laws penalising women and pregnant persons for terminating their pregnancy are unconstitutional, reports Tanya Wadhwa.Ìý

‘Walmart Land’: US chains colonise Mexico, displace local culture

More and more US transnationals have opened up in Mexico over the past few decades, taking advantage of unfair trade agreements, super-exploitative labour conditions and cheap utilities, reports Tamara Pearson.

Mexico: Indigenous communities take over water-bottling plant to use as a social centre

Multinational beverage companies have been profiting off Mexico's precious drinking water resources for decades, while local communities have gone without. But communities in the state of Puebla have had enough, reports Tamara Pearson.

The media is causing harm by reporting official COVID-19 figures from poorer countries

The media needs to stop misreporting COVID-19 numbers and minimising the hardships in those countries facing the worst of the global pandemic, writes Tamara Pearson.

Mexico: Communities want Bonafont water gone

US and European water bottling companies are making huge profits packaging and selling Mexico’s water resources, while leaving locals without, reports Tamara Pearson.Ìý

Guatemalan and Mexican governments use pandemic to turn back refugee caravan

Thousands of Honduran migrants and refugees have been beaten, arrested, threatened with prison and deported, as they tried to make their way through the closed borders of Guatemala and Mexico, reports Tamara Pearson.

Efrain Ascencio Cedillo: A Mexican photographer who depicted the real Mexico

Efrain Ascencio Cedillo was an incredible photographer who will likely never be known outside of Mexico, because he didn’t have the privilege of being from the United States or Europe, writes Tamara Pearson.Ìý

Amid pandemic, US drinks beer, produces cars, military tech at expense of Mexican lives

Fridges in Mexico are empty of beer because production has ceased in this industry deemed non-essential amid the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Tamara Pearson. However, United States-owned Constellation Brands is defying local orders and continues to produce for export to US consumers.

Mexico: Strange and excessive abuses by corporations, officials and narcos are slipping under the radar

For those with economic or political power, the coronavirus pandemic is nothing more than a carnival of crisis and possibilities, writes Tamara Pearson.