Weekly Roundup, March 11: Special Edition Environmental Defenders
The death of Berta Cáceres last Thursday continues to reverberate throughout Latin America. The award winning Honduran Indigenous and environmental ac...
Hopes and concerns: Canada’s involvement in Haiti
Ted and Katharine Oswald, MCC workers in Haiti, visited the Ottawa Office in July 2015. They are shown here with Bernard Sejour (R), Ottawa Catalyst ...
The most interesting place in Colombia
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Amy Eanes just finished two years of living and working in Istmina, Choco as part of the MCC Seed program. She currently works...
Donuts and Mining: Canadian Elections, Trade, and Foreign Policy
Small farm near the Marlin Mine in Guatemala. Anna Vogt
Anna Vogt is the MCC LACA Advocacy and Policy Analyst.
I was in a grocery store in a s...
Another Canadian gold mine: Barrick Gold and the Indigenous communities of Huasco, Chile
The Huasco Valley in the arid Andes Mountains of Chile and the glacier fed river that enables cultivation. Photo by Adrienne Wiebe.
Adrienne Wieb...
The Marlin Mine and Women’s Resistance
Nancy and Crisanta
By Nancy Sabas, the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Guatemala/El Salvador, originally from Honduras.
Was it you who s...
The World Bank Declines to Hear Haitians’ Complaint over Troubling Mining Practices
View of landscape in Haiti's northeastern department. (Photo credit: Ted Oswald)
By Katherine and Ted Oswald, Policy Analysts and Advocacy Coordinat...
Mining Resistance: Lessons from Guatemala and Mexico
Barite mine near Nebaj Photo Anna Vogt
Tobias Roberts is an MCC service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala
Grassroots advocacy work in Central America...
Shame
By Anna Vogt, a service worker in MCC Colombia currently working with Justapaz, a Mennonite organization working for justice, peace and non-violen...
Strategic politics in Colombia: today the real work begins
By Rebekah Sears, Policy Educator and Advocacy Worker for MCC Colombia.
The Colombian Presidential race of 2014 was one of the closest in recent hi...