Country Programs – Page 44

Community Evolution – Not Community Development

September 7, 2011

Bruce, Ziko, Jaime, Hizee, and Zam Friesen-Pankratz, Photo by Luke Roth-Mullet Bruce Friesen-Pankratz writes about his experience as an MCC service-worker in Zacango, Mexico, utilizing a biological metaphor t...

Prime Minister Harper and I mark the new Canada-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement

August 25, 2011

Colombia, Country Programs, Rural Justice

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and I were recently in Colombia. We visited youth programs in a marginalized urban neighbourhood, met with business leaders, and talked with Colombians about the new Canad...

Voices from the Americas: A Friend to Migrant Women caught in the Sex Trade

August 7, 2011

Country Programs, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

Gloria, a vivacious young woman in a tight top and short skirt, tells Maria and me that she would love to go for a day-trip to San Cristobal with us, but her “man” will not let her go. She laughs: “ He’s thinks...

New Border Wall in Nogales: Metal, Murals, & Music

July 18, 2011

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration

Since last week, the old wall dividing the city of Nogales on the border between Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico is being replaced by a new one. The US government is tearing down 2.8 miles of old metal fence an...

A Shared Song: Argentinian Folk-Singer Facundo Cabral Killed Yesterday

July 11, 2011

Country Programs, Guatemala, Mexico, Urban Peacebuilding

Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter, aged 74, was killed in Guatemala City early Saturday morning, July 9, by gunmen. He was on his way to the airport after giving several concerts. It is still unclea...

“Yes to Life”: Lobbying for a new mining law in Honduras

July 6, 2011

Country Programs, Honduras, Mining Justice

Carlos Amador - Honduran teacher and environmentalist detained yesterday in Honduras for opposition to the impacts of a Canadian mining company. “This year the mining law in Honduras will go through a pr...

A Precedent for Indigenous Economic Rights?

June 27, 2011

Country Programs, Guatemala, Rural Justice

\ Palo Viejo Dam, Cotzal, Nebaj, GuatemalaTobias Roberts, an MCCer in Nebaj, Guatemala, has been asked by Maya-Ixhil communities to be an official observer in precedent setting negogiations between these indige...

Voices from the Americas: A Mennonite Pastor in Ciudad Juarez

June 27, 2011

Country Programs, Mexico, Migration, Urban Peacebuilding

“How can we be a church of peace and hope in a context of overwhelming violence?” asks Pastor Carlos Martinez, in an interview in April, 2011. Martinez is the pastor of the Iglesia Evangelica Misionera Nuevo Pa...

Conversations with Haitians

June 23, 2011

Country Programs, Haiti, Rural Justice

Haiti appears in the world news whenever it experiences a new disaster: a political coup, an earthquake, a cholera epidemic, the return of a former dictator, or a questionable election. However, during convers...

Goldcorp & Me

June 17, 2011

Country Programs, Guatemala, Mining Justice

Goldcorp and Me OR how Guatemalan Subsistence Farmers fund my son’s university education and my retirement As strange and twisted as it sounds, Mayan subsistence farmers in Guatemala are getting poorer so that...

The Food We Share

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

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)