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4 May 2022 3 minute read

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Spotlight: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pushes back against the stereotypes associated with Latin American culture. By Graeme...

31 Aug 2021 7 minute read

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Move over politicians

Ed Sykes reports from Mexico on the indigenous communities taking back local democracy and building safer, greener towns in...

Rocío de la Cruz, with a Tzotzil poem painted on the wall of the cultural research centre where she works.CHANGIZ M VARZI

11 Jul 2021 5 minute read

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Cresting the wave

In Mexico, a new generation of young indigenous women are using art to fight racism and celebrate their native identity....

17 Apr 2019 4 minute read

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AMLO vs Zapata

Mexico’s new left-leaning President sees an opportunity in championing the legacy of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano...

6 Dec 2019 7 minute read

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Bringing Mexico’s missing out of the shadows

More than 37,000 people in Mexico are currently declared missing – seen as neither dead nor alive. Carlos Heras...

Protesters carry a banner: ‘Humanity doesn’t require a green card’

26 Jun 2018 4 minute read

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The new frontier spirit

The inhumanity of child separation was no accident. Rachel Curtis reports from El Paso.

21 Jun 2018 11 minute read

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Could Mexico’s election change everything?

The Latin American nation goes to the polls 1 July to elect a new president. Tamara Pearson reports.

26 Apr 2018 2 minute read

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Mixed Media: Music

Mambo Cósmico by Sonido Gallo Negro and Forest Bathing by A Hawk...

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Meet Anabela Carlón Flores

Nick Dowson speaks with the indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.

1 Dec 2017 1 minute read

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Mexico’s anti-gentrification saint

Two artists have invented a saint to protect residents from gentrification. Yohann Koshy reports.

1 Nov 2017 4 minute read

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A word with Yuri Herrera

The Mexican political scientist talks drugs, racism and masculinity with Graeme Green.

14 Aug 2017 8 minute read

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Is water the new drug for Mexico’s cartels?

What it's like when narcos run your privatized water system, Tamara Pearson reports.

2 Jun 2017 5 minute read

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Civil war, mental illness, poverty, gang violence: the many roots of homelessness

We talked to homeless in different countries and they revealed housing insecurity's different causes around the world.

8 Mar 2017 7 minute read

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Erasing women in Mexico

Women are jailed for miscarriages, yet male spouses who've murdered walk free. Tamara Pearson reports.

19 Jan 2017 4 minute read

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Mexico’s Gasolinazo Ignites Public Rage

Mexicans protest gas deregulation, an economic measure many think will exacerbate an already precarious situation. ...

31 Oct 2016 6 minute read

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Did the British Museum sell ‘Day of the Dead’ to BP?

New documents tell a damning story of an iconic museum, its oil sponsor and a rights-violating government. Chris...

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