Above Photo: Casa CEM’s Eco-Sustainable Bazaar is environmental education through practice. It is a space that promotes responsible consumption, local and fair trade, reuse, and recycling. Casa CEA. Grassroots organizations in Mexico are promoting inclusive recycling by helping usher trash pickers, or pepenadores, into the salaried workforce. In the endeavor, they draw on positive experiences around the developing world. What’s more, Mexican environmental activists have devised unique ways to attract community participation in reducing and recycling domestic waste. Para leer este artículo en Español, haz click AQUÍ Inclusive recycling, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit report, is understood as: “Those waste management systems […]
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Relatives of victims who died from COVID-19 visit graves in the special area of the Municipal Pantheon of Valle de Chalco, Mexico. The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on the country, especially its poorest citizens. Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images Relatives of victims who died from COVID-19 visit graves in the special area of the Municipal Pantheon of Valle de Chalco, Mexico. The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on the country, especially its poorest citizens. Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images Every morning, Rosa Gallegos has to make a decision: stay […]
More than eight months after nine Americans from a prominent local Mormon family were killed in northern Mexico during a deadly ambush, their family members are suing the drug cartel allegedly responsible for the “coordinated assaults.” The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of North Dakota Western Division last week, claims that the Juarez Cartel in Mexico “attacked” several family members of the LeBarón family because they were wealthy, vocal critics of the cartel who staged anti-cartel demonstrations. The lawsuit reveals horrific new details, including efforts by two children, including a 9-year-old girl shot in the arm, to […]
The Arts And Symbolism In Mexico’s Feminist Movement By Poncho Hernández, Nonviolent Conflict. July 26, 2020 The Arts And Symbolism In Mexico’s Feminist Movement2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5400-e1595773772673.jpg200px200px Above photo: Women toss pink glitter during a protest march in Mexico City on Friday 16 August. Marco Ugarte/AP. Last August, during a press conference with Mexico City’s police chief, a group of young women were seen breaking windows and throwing pink glitter in the police chief’s face. This was to demand justice for a teenager allegedly raped by four police officers. The episode sparked what became known as the glitter revolution, a new wave of feminist activism in […]
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, seen here last month in Mexico City, visits President Trump at the White House this week. Hector Vivas/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hector Vivas/Getty Images Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, seen here last month in Mexico City, visits President Trump at the White House this week. Hector Vivas/Getty Images Near downtown Mexico City, Cristian Corte sells tacos and gorditas at a makeshift stand outside a metro stop. He pulls down his thin paper mask anxious to vent his anger about the Mexican president’s upcoming trip to Washington. “I want him to tell Trump […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/39/1079713972_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_b5a7f7b06731b82da839ede37a2420e1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202006251079714001-death-toll-in-mexicos-23-june-earthquake-rises-to-10/ MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Army units involved in rescue operations in Mexico’s Oaxaca state have recovered the bodies of three people from under the rubble, the Mexican Security and Civil Protection Secretariat said in a press release. “At the moment 97 municipalities with affectations are reported in the states Oaxaca, State of Mexico, Mexico City and Veracruz. Unfortunately … ten deceased and 21 injured people in Oaxaca state; and in Mexico City two injured were reported”, the press release reads. Earlier reports said at least seven people had been killed, so the death count of the 23 […]
Mexico hits new virus record of over 500 deaths per day by Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s health department reported 501 deaths from the coronavirus Tuesday, a new one-day high and the first time the figure exceeded 500. The number of new cases also set a daily high, with 3,455 additional infections confirmed. Mexico has so far recorded nearly 74,560 confirmed cases and 8,134 deaths, though officials acknowledge the number of cases is probably several times higher due to Mexico’s extremely low rate of testing. Mexico’s daily death toll is now approaching that of the United States, at around 620, though Brazil leads […]
Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, The US Steps In To Keep Border Factories Open By David Bacon, Truthout. May 12, 2020 Following Mexico’s Worker Strikes, The US Steps In To Keep Border Factories Open2020-05-122020-05-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/a-street-in-a-mexican-barrio-of-maquiladora-workers.-by-david-bacon.-e1589308880732.jpg200px200px Above photo: A street in a Mexican barrio of maquiladora workers. By David Bacon. In Washington, D.C., President Trump is trying his best to reopen closed meatpacking plants, as packinghouse workers catch the COVID-19 virus and die. In Tijuana, Mexico, where workers are dying in mostly U.S.-owned factories (known as maquiladoras) that produce and export goods to the U.S., the Baja California state governor, a former California Republican Party stalwart, […]