Pressure mounts in giant Mexican migrant camp as US expulsions ruled unlawful
San Pedro Tapanatepec, Mexico Reuters Thousands of migrants are camping in squalid conditions in a remote southern Mexican town after US and Mexican authorities implemented new policies aimed at stemming the illegal flow of Venezuelans into the United States. Located on a muddy sports field in San Pedro Tapanatepec in Oaxaca state, the camp is […]
Families fret over fate of migrants trapped in Texas truck
Oaxaca City, Mexico Reuters Before he began the journey that ended in disaster, Jose Luis Vasquez lived in a remote mountainous community in southern Mexico, where a single telephone connects a few Indigenous families to the outside world, local residents said. Now the 31-year-old is in a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, after becoming severely […]
Mexico death toll from storm Agatha rises to 11, with 33 missing
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The death toll caused by Hurricane Agatha in Mexico has risen to 11, with another 33 missing and heavy rains likely to continue, the Governor of the southern state of Oaxaca said on Wednesday. Agatha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 169 kph winds near […]
Mexican journalist killed in latest violent attack on media
Mexico CityReuters A Mexican journalist was shot and killed in the southern state of Oaxaca on Thursday, police said, the latest in a string of journalist deaths that have prompted US lawmakers to pressure Mexico to step up protections. Heber Lopez, an independent journalist who ran NoticiasWeb, was shot and killed, police officials told Mexican […]
Bloody Mexican election campaign exposes chronic security woes
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Abel Murrieta was handing out campaign flyers on the street this month when a gunman shot him in broad daylight at point-blank range, making him the latest candidate murdered in one of the bloodiest election campaigns in Mexico’s recent history. Running for mayor in mid-term elections on 6th June, Murrieta died in […]
Essay: Indigenous Mexicans turn inward to survive COVID-19, barricading villages and growing their own food
In an article first published on The Conversation, JEFFREY H COHEN, professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University, looks at how Indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are responding to the coronavirus pandemic…