Why Mexico’s War on Drugs is Unwinnable
In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, a student peace protester is gunned down by the Federal Police. Pictures of the intestines bursting from his ruptured gut make the rounds on the Internet, shocking even the world’s bloodiest city. In Matamoros, Tamaulipas, schools close down after officials receive bomb threats. Newspapers timidly report that the threats “could be [...]
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By Raúl Zibechi
At the end of December, the first popular uprising in the region against a government of the left took place in Bolivia. It was caused by an excessive increase in the price of fuels. The event demonstrates the difficulties of entering into a truly alternative mode of development, but it also reveals the limits of the Bolivian government’s stated effort to re-establish and decolonize the state.
Read more →US Tries to Block Aristide Return, Derail Democracy
The United States’ long history of intervening in Haitian politics is alive and well: President Obama’s administration is attempting to derail the lawful return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide before Sunday’s controversial run-off elections.
Read more →Beyond the Drug War: Building a Stronger Bilateral Relationship for Peaceful Co-Existence
In this speech delivered on March 4, 2011 to the annual meeting of Democrats Abroad in Puerto Vallarta, Americas Program Director Laura Carlsen lays out the history and flaws of Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug war, but also points to solutions and alternatives to escape the spiral of corruption and violence.
Read more →Mexican Youth Mobilize to Protest Drug War Violence
As the drug war continues to take an increasingly bloody toll, a movement is taking shape to oppose the rising violence, but also the social inequities that give rise to it. The backbone of the No Mas Sangre (No More Blood) movement is made up of young Mexican men and women saying no to a model that is failing their generation.
Read more →General Advocates Extrajudicial Killings in Mexico’s Drug War
In a startling and frank interview with La Jornada, General Villa Castillo, Torreon, Coahuila’s Director of Public Security, talked openly about his systematic use of brutal and extrajudicial drug war strategy.
Read more →Wikileaks: Electoral Politics Drive Juarez Drug War Strategy
Recent Wikileaks cables show that the current administration hopes to “sustain the confrontation” into the next administration and that drug war strategy is in part driven by the desire to produce politically useful “symbolic” results.
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