Weekly Roundup, May 22
Photo: Anna Vogt
Latin American Allies Resist U.S. Strategy in Drug Fight
Colombia just discarded a cornerstone of the American-backed fight against drugs, blocking the aerial spraying of coca, the plant used ...
Weekly News Round-Up, May 8
Photo: Anna Vogt
New report: Displacement is rising in Latin America
Latin America was not exempt from the report’s purview, however; in fact, the IDMC reported that the region has experienced a 12 percent i...
Weekly Roundup, April 24
Dominoes, a popular pastime on Colombia´s Caribbean Coast Photo: Anna Vogt
No surge in kids crossing U.S.-Mexico border this summer, immigration official predicts
There won't be nearly as many immigrant childr...
Weekly Round-Up, April 17
Colombians march in memory of victims of armed conflict. Photo: Anna Vogt
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS EXPRESS URGENT CONCERNS ABOUT PROPOSED ALLIANCE FOR PROSPERITY PLAN FOR THE NORTHERN TRIANGLE DURING SUMMI...
ANADESA: A community organization promoting education and development in Santiago Atitlan
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Year in Review: Top posts of 2013
1. Gangs in Central America
"Leaving a gang is not easy, however. Many of the ex-gang members Brenneman interviewed cited “the morgue rule,” i.e. that the only path out of a gang was death. Primarily this is b...
The Challenge of the Manger in Bethlehem
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala. This article was originally published by the Huffington Post on December 24, 2012.
From opulent shopping malls in the Unites States to corners of crumbling adobe houses in rur...
Arming the cartels: U.S. guns in Latin America
By Chris Hershberger-Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
En route to Phoenix for the Mennonite Convention last summer, Fred Kauffman took a taxi from the airpo...
Las Americas
Larisa Zehr is a Community Accompaniment worker for MCC Colombia. This piece was originally posted August 31 on her personal blog, From I to We.
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I woke up this morning (August 31) with no...
Conflict resurfaces in Chenalho’ Chiapas
Miriam Harder is an MCC service worker based in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico. She coordinates a Conservation Agriculture pilot project in Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua. For the oth...