Category: North America
October 25, 2020 > Jacob Alabab-Moser
Amid Multiple Crises, a Remote Mexican Town Faces Threats of Illegal Mining Concessions
Los Chimalapas rainforest, located in the center of the Istmo of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, is host to some of the greatest biodiversity in Mexico and the world, and its […] Read More >
September 18, 2020 > Angely Montilla
Examining Dominican Anti-Blackness During a Summer of Protest
This July, Dominicans elected opposition presidential candidate Luis Abinader, bidding farewell to 16 years of unbroken rule by the Caribbean nation’s center-left. Voters at home and abroad braved a worsening […] Read More >
July 13, 2020 > Rebekah Ward
Families Struggle to Send Lost Loved Ones Home to Mexico Amid Coronavirus Crisis
This story was originally published on July 9 by THE CITY. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning This story is […] Read More >
July 7, 2020 > Agustín del Castillo
Mexican Communities Save Fir Forests
This article was originally published on Mongabay in English and Mongabay Latam in Spanish. For 20 years, the Colima fir tree (Abies colimensis) has been at the heart of many […] Read More >
May 8, 2020 > Heriberto Paredes
Latinx Workers Keep New York City Moving
NEW YORK―Immigrants make up the city’s essential workforce, who get up in the morning to work in supermarkets, disinfect subway cars, deliver take-out, and drop off merchandise at bodegas and […] Read More >
April 30, 2020 > José Luis Martínez
Undocumented Day Laborers Struggle During Coronavirus Crisis
HOUSTON—Be Someone. Everyone from Houston recognizes the iconic graffiti sprayed on the side of a railroad bridge downtown. Houston is a place where people flock to “be someone.” It is […] Read More >
March 17, 2020 > Molly McLaughlin
Mexican Feminists Win Legal Protections Against Revenge Porn
MEXICO CITY— Olimpia Coral Melo was 18 when a private video she had filmed with her long-term boyfriend began to circulate on WhatsApp. A tabloid in her hometown of Huauchinango, […] Read More >
March 9, 2020 > Richard Arghiris
Questions Linger in Death of Mexican Monarch Defender
The village of El Soldado Anónimo is tucked between saddle-like hills, fallow corn fields and fragrant evergreen forests in eastern Michoacán, Mexico. On January 13, the yearly patron saint’s festival […] Read More >
March 3, 2020 > Estefanía Camacho Jiménez
Tired of Empty Promises, Mexican Women Call on Government to End Violence
The brutal murder of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla on February 9 in Mexico City set off a wave of ongoing protests. Officials from the Mexico City public prosecutor’s office leaked photos […] Read More >
February 20, 2020 > Jose Benjamin Montaño
Impunity Reigns in the Murder of Samir Flores
Samir Flores Soberanes was gunned down outside his home on February 20, 2019. The Indigenous Náhuatl farmer, radio producer, and environmental activist was from Amilcingo, Morelos. The day before he […] Read More >