Mexico

Coral Wynter reviews The Eyes of the Earth, a magical realist novel that follows the life of a Honduran refugee eking out an existence in Mexico City. 

Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena party has been elected the new president of Mexico, according to the official preliminary results, reports Tamara Pearson from Puebla.

Women and children marching for International Women's Day in Puebla Mexico

Hundreds of thousands of people around Mexico marched on International Women's Day, with an estimated 180,000 people reported in Mexico City, massive marches in Oaxaca, Guadalajara, and more, and two journalists arrested in Zacatecas, reports Tamara Pearson.

woman smiling

Poetry by Tamara Pearson.

hands making love heart

There are big bucks in outsourcing society’s problems to the individual. writes Tamara Pearson.

Mexico water and land protectors

The Escolásticas community in Querétaro state, Mexico, has been subjected to extreme police repression, as it struggles to protect land and water from private interests, reports Tamara Pearson.

At least 41 migrants and refugees died in a fire in a migrant prison in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, near the United States border, reports Tamara Pearson.

Water rights meeting in Mexico

Movements, organisations and Indigenous communities gathered in the Assembly for Water and For Life over February 18–19, reports Tamara Pearson.

private wind farms

While wind farms are touted as climate solutions, profit-hungry companies are actually causing widespread damage, reports Tamara Pearson.

Matanzas fire Cuba

Extensive efforts are underway in Cuba to control a major fire that broke out at an oil storage facility in the city of Matanzas, reports Tanupriya Singh.

Mama film by Xun Sero

Tamara Pearson spoke to Xun Sero, a filmmaker from Mexico’s southern Chiapas state on the release of his new film, Mamá, which premiered in Mexico this month.

The convoy marching through Xochimilco

Indigenous groups and supporters have spent the past month travelling in a convoy to regions where Western corporations are plundering water and resources. Tamara Pearson took part in the convoy.