Mexico – Page 6

What good is growth? Latin America in 2014

January 6, 2014

Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice

By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. As we roll into the New Year, some economists and commentators are projecting rosy forecasts for Lati...

Arming the cartels: U.S. guns in Latin America

November 15, 2013

Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence, Uncategorized

By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City. En route to Phoenix for the Mennonite Convention last summer, Fred Kauffman took a taxi from the airpo...

“NAFTA on Steroids”: Mexico and the TPP

October 18, 2013

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...

Independence from what?

September 16, 2013

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...

Conflict resurfaces in Chenalho’ Chiapas

September 1, 2013

Mexico, Rural Justice, Uncategorized

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...

La Bestia

August 30, 2013

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Migration, Uncategorized

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...

The perils of security on the U.S./Mexico border

August 17, 2013

Mexico, Migration

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 ...

Stretching our donor dollar?

July 25, 2013

Country Programs, Mexico, Rural Justice

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 Para leer en Español As r...

Plague threatens Small-Scale Coffee Producers

June 24, 2013

Country Programs, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Rural Justice

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...

L@s Otr@s Dreamers

June 18, 2013

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...

The Food We Share

Voices of Change Sowing Hope in Latin America: Three Women Weaving Dignified Futures

Voces de Cambio Sembrando Semillas de Esperanza en Latinoamérica: Tres Mujeres Tejiendo Futuros Dignos

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)