“Formal Work in Mexico Doesn’t Pay”: An Interview with Journalist Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

Journalist Sandra Rodríguez Nieto is one of Mexico’s most respected investigative reporters. Her 2012 book, The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juárez (Verso), is a detailed study of the Continue reading

Mexican Human Rights Update: In Other News, Veracruz – by Patrick Timmons

EL PASO, Texas: The current news cycle of the world’s media has been focused on Donald Trump since before he won the U.S. Presidency on November 8, 2016. So, North Americans may be forgiven for reading little else but the Continue reading

Migrants and the displaced fill shelters in Tijuana; the government does not address crisis – by Inés García Ramos (Semanario Zeta)

~This story was originally published by Zeta on September 5, 2016 ~ While migrant shelters are at double their capacity, the Ministry of Finance withholding a special fund of 300 million pesos approved since 2015. Meanwhile, the state government fails Continue reading