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 commemo...
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 d...
Anabaptist churches and organizations respond to violence in Colombia
On April 28, tens of thousands of Colombia marched in a renewed iteration of the National Strike that had begun strongly in November 2019. With the ar...
The Heresy of U.S. Exceptionalism
As extremists scaled the wall of the U.S. Capitol, I sat less than four miles away, staring at my computer screen and trying to follow the news repor...
A chapina in Nicaragua
*chapín/chapina is a word many Guatemalans use to refer to themselves.
“Dale”—a slang word that means something like “go for it”—is one of the mos...
Yes, Racism is Alive in Colombia
This article is part of a series about racism in Colombia. Read more.
“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin
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Redeeming a Lost Decade
The date was December 1981; the place, La Ceiba, Honduras. Oscar Dueñas, a young Mennonite electrician’s assistant, was leaving work with his cousin ...
Bordo? What is a bordo?
At the beginning of my service with MCC, I had a lot of questions swirling around in my head. Many of them made my doubt I’d be able to do my job. Ba...
Another World is Possible
The first time I gave any serious thought to Latin America was probably during a postmodern literature course I took in the dead of winter during my ...
Where are our children?
One could respond to this title in many different ways. Some might respond metaphorically, or else by thinking of the positions—of power, participati...