Mexico – MCC LACA

Walking Together: Notes from MCC LACA’s 2022 Indigenous Peoples Encounter

October 10, 2022

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change, Guatemala, Mexico, Migration, Mining Justice, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

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...

Six Migration Stories from Haiti

February 8, 2022

Advocacy, Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Migration

1: RETURN I came back to Haiti just as it seemed like everyone was leaving. The arrivals section of the airport, normally packed shoulder-to-shoulder with people awaiting their loved ones, was almost desert...

Migration is an act of courage

September 13, 2021

Advocacy, Honduras, Mexico, Migration, Migration, Partner Organization

Migration is complicated and stories of migration, like their protagonists, are unique. What they have in common is the combination of resilience and the human desire to survive. In the countries of the Centra...

How border militarization in southern Mexico is putting Central American migrants at risk

May 7, 2021

Advocacy, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

Doña Francisca* keeps a photo of herself and a young relative, Kevin*, on her phone. In the photo, Doña Francisca is wearing a mask, but Kevin is bare-faced, clean-cut and smiling. He looks like a good kid. “H...

Where are our children?

June 17, 2020

Advocacy, Mexico, Peace and Non-Violence

One could respond to this title in many different ways. Some might respond metaphorically, or else by thinking of the positions—of power, participation, or consultation—that children occupy in communities of f...

That I Would Go For My Family

July 17, 2019

Advocacy, Honduras, Mexico, Migration

I first saw David* sitting on a curb, his frame outlined against the Suchiate River in the distance. The Suchiate separates Mexico from Guatemala, a natural border turned political. To the right of us stood the...

La Posada

December 12, 2018

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

See MCC Washington's reflections on La Posada and the Migrant Caravan here. Elena Huegel is an EMU graduate working in Chiapas with the Instituto de Estudios e Investigación Intercultural, A.C. (IN...

Threads

September 19, 2018

Advocacy, Canada, Mexico, Migration, Peace and Non-Violence

Anna Vogt is the director of the MCC Canada advocacy office in Ottawa. “It is not futile to sing the pain and beauty of having been born in America.” –Eduardo Galeano Before I moved to Latin Americ...

Moving Beyond “It’s Complicated”: A Mexican History Lesson from Chiapas

May 23, 2018

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Quinn Brenneke is a SALTer working with MCC Mexico partner Voces Mesoamericanas. This post was originally published on Quinn's newsletter. The simple answer I often give to many of the questions I get about...

Blossoms and Bread

April 25, 2018

Advocacy, Mexico, Migration

Anna Vogt is the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This reflection was originally published on Anna’s personal blog. When people greet each other in the Indigenous language o...

The Food We Share

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

Migration and misinformation

Moving Forward in the Midst of Sorrow

Walking Together: Notes from MCC LACA’s 2022 Indigenous Peoples Encounter

Six Migration Stories from Haiti

Migration is an act of courage

How border militarization in southern Mexico is putting Central American migrants at risk

Where are our children?

That I Would Go For My Family

La Posada

Threads

Moving Beyond “It’s Complicated”: A Mexican History Lesson from Chiapas

Blossoms and Bread

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration