La Bestia
By Chris Hershberger Esh, MCC’s Context Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Mexico City.
On Sunday, a cargo train derailed near Villahermosa, Mexico. Aboard this cargo train were 250 Centra...
Urban peace dialogue in Cuba
Participants at the Cuban Quaker Institute for Peace, Holguin, Cuba, June 2013
By Adrienne Wiebe, Policy Analyst, MCC Latin America
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a gathering ...
Activist and Mother
Last week Blanca, a member of Churches for Peace in Mexico passed a way. Her colleagues wrote this in her memory.
Activist and Mother: Blanca Regina Guzmán Jara de Villanueva
In memoriam
Deyssy Jael de la Luz G...
A Simple Easter Reflection – Una reflexión simple para la Pascua
A poem by a Guatemalan writer and a painting by an Argentinian artist are the basis of an Easter reflection by Adam Shank & Marisa Clymer, MCC Nicaragua. Un poema de una escritora Guatemalateca y una pintur...
Corporate Rights over People’s Rights: The Expansion of ENEL in Latin America
By Tobias Roberts, MCC Guatemala
About a month after my wife and I arrived to the small, Mayan-Ixil town of Nebaj, Guatemala, we received our welcoming into the reality of the Ixil people when the town was occ...
Communities Affected by Mining in Mexico call for Alternatives
By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
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Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are prominent in the international news about mining issues in Latin America. However, there are extensive minin...
Nicaragua: How to heal a multiply-wounded country
By Adam Shank, MCC Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a“multiply wounded country” according to Nicaraguan psychologist, Martha Cabrera.
Indeed, anyone over the age of 40 has experienced both man-made and natural di...
New Year’s Resolutions for US and Canadian policy in Latin America?
It’s January 11 today, so maybe some New Year’s resolutions have already been broken! But I think that it is early enough in the year that we can propose some optimistic goals for 2013.
Resolutions for the Un...
Advent Reflections from Central America
By Adam Shank, MCC Nicaragua
The Advent/Christmas season has become an important time of year for me in recent years. Growing up Christmas time was always a highlight of the year, not only for the presents b...
Broken Bodies on the Border
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By Adrienne Wiebe, MCC Latin America
On the southern border of Mexico, undocumented migrants from Central America pay with their bodies for their attempts to overcome poverty and flee vio...