Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense white foam from the hundreds of industries that pollute it, she notes that the area is also getting hotter. “My father talks about how when he was younger, he didn’t need sweaters, because it was never that hot or cold…
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On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans for her government to file criminal complaints against the United States, seeking to hold the country accountable for the deaths of Mexican citizens who died while in custody of immigration agencies or while being pursued in anti-immigration raids. A total of 17 Mexican citizens could be included in the complaint process…
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Chanting, “We are not partners, we are workers,” hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage on May 15 demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and ultimately, a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber, Didi, and Rappi (two Uber Eats-style delivery platforms). The National App Workers Union (la…
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We continue our World Cup coverage in Mexico City, where local protesters are using the global event to bring attention to their causes. A sit-in by a teachers’ union is targeting World Cup festivities. And “the mothers of disappeared people have been protesting, trying to reach the stadium in the far south of the city,” says José Luis Granados Ceja, who covers Latin America for Drop Site News.
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Two U.S. officials who died in a car crash after a reported drug lab bust in Mexico on Saturday were operatives for the Central Intelligence Agency, reports have revealed, amid the Trump administration’s expansion of paramilitary and covert operations in Latin America. The officers died alongside two Mexican military officials on their way from a raid on a drug lab in the state of Chihuahua.
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The U.S. and Mexico have established a mining agreement which has Indigenous and other residents of the Sierra Norte mountains, as well as activists around Mexico, worried. Announced on February 4, the U.S.-Mexico Action Plan on Critical Minerals aims to guarantee the U.S.’s supply of minerals for its arms industry, technology like data centers and smartphones, and the so-called energy…
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