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Corrupt Coalition
On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over...
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Feb 5, 20233 min read


Handkerchiefs for Hope
In Buenos Aires, a crowd of protestors dressed in green gathered in the Plaza de Mayo to patiently await the decision of the Argentinian...
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Jan 13, 20235 min read


Dimming Lights: Mexico’s Energy Reform Amendments
In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law,...
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Mar 23, 20224 min read


NOM NOM NOM-051: A look into the motivations and limitations of Mexico’s new food label law
Gone are the days of Tony the Tiger and Cap’n Crunch. In October 2020, the Mexican government implemented the New Mexico Food Law...
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Feb 10, 20223 min read


Repetitive Mistakes: Mexico’s New National Guard
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) historical and unprecedented electoral win was met with high hopes of transformative change, but due...
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Mar 1, 20206 min read


Political Resistance on the Move
On the same fateful day in 1994 that NAFTA was signed into law, a coalition of roughly 3,000 armed indigenous revolutionaries in the...
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Jan 4, 20205 min read


Educational Woes: Mexico’s need for investment in human capital
The 2018 Mexican Federal Election proved to be a critical juncture for Mexico, as the left-wing candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
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Mar 2, 20195 min read


Blood Avocados: Cracking Down on Cartels
Last year, millionaire real estate mogul Tim Gurner told 60 Minutes Australia that millennials are blowing potential savings on “buying...
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Apr 18, 20185 min read


Hurricane Harvey: Immigration Disaster
Hurricane Harvey — a category four hurricane — demolished the city of Houston, Texas, dropping up to 50 inches of rainfall and causing 66...
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Nov 3, 20174 min read


Alone and Afraid: Unaccompanied Child Migrants in the US
In 2015, the UN High Commission on Refugees interviewed over 400 children who had been taken into custody by the US federal government...
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Nov 2, 20164 min read


The Rise of Border Walls: Implications of a Physically Divided World
Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall along the United States and Mexican border has arguably become the most memorable talking point of...
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Oct 24, 20166 min read


Borders and Identities
For the last several months, borders have been at the forefront of politics and culture: Donald Trump infamously promised to erect a wall...
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Apr 7, 20164 min read


Prison overcrowding in Latin America: A plea for less criminalization?
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal...
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Mar 18, 20164 min read


Music Fit for a Kingpin: How popular culture is redefining cartels’ social role
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the...
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Mar 16, 20168 min read


Veracruz Exposed: Journalists Under Attack in Mexico
In no other state is the price of truth as high as it is in Veracruz. With a record number of 16 journalists murdered since 2010, the...
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Feb 24, 20164 min read


Ayotzinapa: Mexico’s Unhealed Wound
Today marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa in the...
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Sep 26, 20155 min read


Indigeneity, Horizontal Inequality and the Shortcomings of Peña Nieto’s Education Reform
Nestled in Mexico’s Santiago Valley, deep in the southern region of the country, lies Santiago Mexquititlán, a township of about ten...
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Aug 2, 20155 min read


Mexico and the Politics of Terror
A new chapter of Mexican history began in 2006, when former President Felipe Calderón declared war against the country’s powerful drug...
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Dec 9, 20145 min read


Peril and Impunity in Mexico: Justice in Tlatlaya
The decade long drug war has brought the Mexican military and judicial system eye to eye with the abyss. Corruption and brutality have...
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Oct 27, 20145 min read


Ayotzinapa: Exposing the Fallacy of the “Mexican Moment”
It has been three weeks since the disappearance of the 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Starting with demonstrations on...
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Oct 20, 20146 min read
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