Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Daniela Pastrana interviews TONIO DELL’OLIO, of anti-mafia group Libera MEXICO CITY, Apr 8, 2011 (IPS) – In countries where powerful organised crime groups operate, like Mexico, there is a kind of "mafiosity" or culture of illegality deeply rooted in society, which must be fought by educating the young, [...]
RIGHTS: Forced Disappearances on the Rise in Mexico
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Malena Reyes, her brother Elías and his wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped Feb. 7 in the municipality of Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were found two weeks later, in a case that is [...]
MEXICO-US: Little Spillover of "Narco-Deaths"
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana and Aprille Muscara CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico/WASHINGTON, Mar 19, 2011 (IPS) – In the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas the media sounded the alarm: six murders committed in just two months, more than the 2010 total of five. Just across the Mexican border, in the [...]
MEXICO: Cooperatives Offer an Alternative
March 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 15, 2011 (IPS) – After years of decline, the cooperative movement in Mexico is reviving as a relatively safe haven from the shocks of the neoliberal free- market model of production and the financial and food crises that have affected the country. [...]
Soaring Commodity Prices a Mixed Bag for Mexico
March 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – While Mexico is earning more revenue from oil exports, the cost of food imports has risen to the point where food security is threatened. The 2011 budget is based on a price of 65 dollars per barrel of [...]
MEXICO: Eco-Friendly Livelihoods for Women in the Sierra Madre
March 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana JALPAN, Mexico, Mar 1, 2011 (IPS) – They live in a town with an apt name, Soledad (Solitude) de Guadalupe, of just 50 houses, most of which are inhabited by women on their own, in the Sierra Madre mountains in the small state of Querétaro [...]
MEXICO: China Is Hiring; Only Professionals Need Apply
February 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Feb 19, 2011 (IPS) – Mexican pilot Armando Arauz is preparing the thick pile of documents and exams he needs to work for an airline in China. "The Chinese are very exacting and demanding," the 41-year-old pilot, who worked for the private Mexicana [...]
Tourism Is Poisoning the Mexican Caribbean
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 10, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The booming tourist industry along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the "Riviera Maya," is polluting the world’s largest underwater cave system and harming the world’s second largest coral reef, a new study has [...]
MEXICO: Narco-Sharks Replacing Drug Mules
December 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy* MEXICO CITY, Dec 2, 2010 (IPS) – Sharks are facing a new threat: they are being fished off the Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico and used to smuggle cocaine to the United States, through Mexico. This stretch of ocean and its coasts have [...]
MEXICO: Oaxaca Voters Hope for Change
December 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana OAXACA, Mexico, Dec 1, 2010 (IPS) – "A dark chapter has come to a close in the history of Oaxaca. A chapter that must never again be repeated," said lawmaker Flavio Sosa, the head of the social movement that brought this southern Mexican state to [...]
