Archive for 'Education'

Heart-to-Heart on the Drug War

Posted 12 October 2012 | By | Categories: Arms, Central America, Citizen Action, Education, Gun Control, Labor, Mexico & Border, Military | 1 Comment

Margarita López begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter’s life in a low, even tone. Some 40 women in a plush Washington, D.C. meeting room listen silently as tears roll down their cheeks. López narrates how her 19-year-old daughter, Jahaira Guadalupe Vaena López, was abducted in Tlacolula, Oaxaca. [...]

Support Mounts for Salvadoran Gang Truce

Posted 09 June 2012 | By | Categories: Central America, Citizen Action, Education, Immigration, Integration & Trade | No Comments

By Tom Hayden. Longtime gang peace process advocates in Los Angeles announced new support for the 11-week truce called by incarcerated Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street gang leaders, which has sharply reduced homicides in El Salvador.

Colombian Youth Confront Violence with Creativity

Colombian Youth Confront Violence with Creativity

Posted 09 February 2012 | By | Categories: Education, Indigenous People, Military, Regular Columnists | No Comments

But if not by force, how do we lower the levels of crime and violence that plague our countries? Colombia doesn’t only have the drug war model to offer the world; it is also home to initiatives that seek to connect at-risk youth to ways to regain self-esteem and to get them out of the only livelihood that doesn’t require academic credentials— crime.