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“NAFTA on Steroids”: Mexico and the TPP

Mexico
By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement would be the most significant event in internation...
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Independence from what?

Advocacy, Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.  Today marks the start of Mexico’s war for independence from Spain in 1810.  The center square (the Zo...
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L@s Otr@s Dreamers

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español The “Dreamers” are young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children and have grown-up in the US. There are an estimated...
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Who owns the Wind?

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America Para leer en Español I was confused. - Isn’t wind energy a GOOD thing?! An indigenous leader was passionately denouncing the the wind farms in his community. We were in a...
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Unlikely Friendships

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration
By Adrienne Wiebe, Policy Analyst, MCC Latin America, Mexico City Lectionary Reflection for March 10, 2013 -  Lk. 15:1-3, 11-32 Olivia* and Miriam sit in the shade behind a cement-block building, drinking pop...