CLAI Letter to President Obama
CLAI, the ''Consejo latinoamericano de iglesias'' or the Council of Latin American Churches, is an ecumenical organization with connections to several of our partner and sister organizations here in Honduras. O...
Conflict resurfaces in Chenalho’ Chiapas
Miriam Harder is an MCC service worker based in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. She coordinates a Conservation Agriculture pilot project in Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua. For the oth...
The Danger of a Single Story
Written by: Keila Gaeddert, who served with the SALT program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 2011-2012
Here is a short video called The Danger of a Single Story that we watched during Orientation, and that I recen...
La Bestia
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
On Sunday, a cargo train derailed near Villahermosa, Mexico. Aboard this cargo train were 250 Centra...
MWR : Our obsession with violence and the stories you’re not supposed to hear
An excellent article from the Mennonite World Review; we join in this movement and seek to recognize and live in the everyday hope here in Honduras.
''Our obsession with violence and the stories you’re not sup...
The perils of security on the U.S./Mexico border
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC's Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
In early September of last year, Guillermo Arevalo Pedroza brought his wife Nora and their two young ...
Honduras: ‘Light through the cracks’
Photo by Margaret Penner, MCC Mexico
Lynn and Mark Baker recently returned from a two-week trip to Honduras visiting friends, churches, and programs. Here are some excerpts from a post-trip letter of refle...
Stretching our donor dollar?
MCC Mexico team and friends meet in the central square, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, where Rick Block and his family live. Photo by Margaret Penner
By Rick Block, MCC Mexico
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The Annual Canada-Colombia Free Trade Blog Post
By Rebecca Sears, Advocacy Coordinator, MCC Colombia
This is getting to be an annual thing: concern about the human rights and social impacts of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement with Colombia. (See previous b...
MCC and Haitian Partner Advocate at the United Nations and in Washington
By Kristen and Wawa Chege, Policy Analysts and Advocacy Coordinators, MCC Haiti
Photo - Advocacy in Washington, from left: Theo Sitther (MCC Washington DC), Jasmine Higgins (Church World Service), Kristen an...