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...
Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers
Coffee time at INESIN, Rick Block on the far right
By Rick Block is an agronomist working with MCC Mexico partner, INESIN, in Chiapas Mexico. He describes the situation of small farmers losing 75% of their co...
Ríos Montt – One Night in Prison
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Policy Analyst/Educator
Former Guatemalan Dictator, Ex-General Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity on May 10, 2013.
How...
URGENT: Government Repression of the Mayan Ixil People of Nebaj, Guatemala
May 2, 2013 - Tobias Roberts, an MCC service worker in Nebaj, is accompanying this community in this tense situation. The community is asking for international attention to ensure that the situation is resolve...
Corporate Rights over People’s Rights: The Expansion of ENEL in Latin America
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala
About a month after my wife and I arrived to the small, Mayan-Ixil town of Nebaj, Guatemala, we received our welcoming into the reality of the Ixil people when the town was occ...
Are There Alternatives to Migration?
Flower production project in Guatemala
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By Adriana Koehn, Connecting Peoples Coordinator, MCC Guatemala. Here she reflects on the "Alternatives to Migration Learning Tour" of MCC worker...
Broken Bodies on the Border
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By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
On the southern border of Mexico, undocumented migrants from Central America pay with their bodies for their attempts to overcome poverty and flee vio...
For the sake of humanity: The Need for Immigration Reform
Tammy Alexander, Legislative Associate for Domestic Affairs, MCC Washington D.C. Office reflects on the individuals and families behind the policy debates in the USA. This post originally appeared in http://pea...
On the Move: Mariposas and Migrants
In Fall each year about 100 million migrants travel from the Great Lakes area of Canada and the United States to central Mexico. Yes, you read that correctly – 100 MILLION migrants….
It is about a 3000-kilomet...
Reverence for the Sacred Land: Part 2 – A Third Option?
This is the second part of Tobias Roberts' article about responses to urban violence in Central America. Tobias is an MCC Service worker in Nebaj, Guatemala. The full article was originally published in http:/...