Cuba: A case study on sanctions
After 61 years of an embargo preventing trade between the U.S. and Cuba, one might hope for evidence that U.S. sanctions improved the lives of ordinary Cubans. In reality, however, the sanctions have failed to...
Migration and misinformation
In October of 2022, I stood at the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, and watched as small groups of individuals scrambled down, and then up, the banks of the Rio Grande. They came every...
Moving Forward in the Midst of Sorrow
One of the things that haunts me most at Casa del Migrante ‘Scalabrini’ - Guatemala (CdMSG) is the journey ahead that people traveling north will encounter as they leave CdMSG, continue through Mexico, a...
Photos: Leaving the Darién Gap
In December, I rolled out of bed and into the warm, humid early morning in Panama City at 3:00 in the morning. I had been invited to participate in an encounter planned by Como nacido entre nosotros, an advoca...
Noemy Portillo Condori: Dedication, Discipline, Commitment, and Perseverance
The Interdisciplinary Integral Development Program (PRODII) commemorates Women's Day as a day in which the spaces of intervention where women have a voice continue to increase. Women full of tenacity and s...
Five women inspiring me in Bolivia
It’s not hard to find women in Bolivia that inspire me and who are inspiring others in their community. MCC is brimming with partners around the world who put women to the forefront and create spaces for women...
MCC LACA Marks International Women’s Day
March 8th is International Women’s Day, a commemoration that has its roots in the early 20th-century labour movement. Since then, it has been commemorated in countries around the world, both as a celebration o...
First person: Gabriel Acarapi Chuca
I grew up in a community where my grandfather was a farmer and, like most of us here, we belong to an Indigenous community. We’ve been brought up knowing that we need to wake up early and help on the farm and ...
Walking Together: Notes from MCC LACA’s 2022 Indigenous Peoples Encounter
In 1491, the territory that we now call the Americas was full of communities of many colours and sounds, of flourishing art, with sophisticated and diverse food production and complex political systems and all...
On shaky ground: How climate change is making life more complex for rural farmers in Bolivia
After our second visit of the day, we took a moment to sit, eat and chat more with members of the Chucarasi community in Norte de Potosí (North of Potosí), Bolivia. After we finished a full meal of freshly gro...