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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Opinion

  • Women in Mexico City writing femicide victims' names onto metal barriers authorities had installed in anticipation of International Women's Day.

    Mexican women are sick of turning the other cheek. Who can blame them?

    Sarah DeVries would argue that women have been playing nice to get equality and justice for millennia now. And just how well has that worked?

    April 7
  • A Mexican pawnshop

    These are good times for Mexico’s venerable pawnbrokers

    The pandemic, a struggling economy and scores of impoverished refugees have added up to ample good cheer for pawn shops.

    April 2
  • Federal Electricity Commission chief Manuel Bartlett and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

    AMLO’s energy goals unnecessarily demonize private competition

    Allowing competition but protecting the entrenched sole provider is like holding a race and telling participants they can’t use their legs.

    March 31
  • Only parents desperate to give their child a better life would send them on a dangerous migration to the US alone.

    ‘Don’t come’ rings hollow to migrant hopefuls who are out of options

    People desperately struggling to find safety, food and shelter will always play the odds to get to where they’re most likely to survive.

    March 24
  • marijuana

    Case for legalizing marijuana is not as straightforward as its advocates say

    Advocates claim a low risk of harm from the drug and cite the benefits of prising the trade from the grip of illegal cartels.

    March 24
  • A training session for members of new homicide investigative units in Mexico City.

    A ray of hope in the pursuit of a functioning criminal justice system

    There are few positive narratives about Mexico’s criminal justice system but Mexico City’s local investigative units offer a ray of hope.

    March 22
  • A woman receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Querétaro in December.

    Inoculation a hard sell when vaccines inspire more fear than the virus

    As numerous nations pause their use of the Astra-Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Sarah Davies contemplates how quickly emotions can override facts.

    March 17
  • Even before Covid-19 wreaked havoc on wait times for many governmental transactions, standing in long lines to get them done was a fact of life in Mexico.

    Mexico’s bureaucracy fixers thrive on the system’s impenetrability

    Getting a government document in Mexico can be a bureaucratic nightmare, hence the rise of the coyote, who somehow cuts through the red tape.

    March 16
  • A protester takes a hammer to barricades at the National Palace last week.

    President López Obrador fails to recognize his woman problem

    For a president who promised respect, tolerance and peace, it looked last week as if he was at war with half his country — women.

    March 15
  • The Cuatrociénegas Valley is believed to contain clues to how life evolved.

    NASA’s hunt for life’s origins on Mars echoes an ongoing search in Mexico

    In the Chihuahuan Desert’s Cuatrociénegas Valley, Mexican scientists are studying the evolution of extraterrestial life in the universe.

    March 11
  • Many women say the choice of Felix Salgado as a gubernatorial candidate despite rape accusations illustrates Mexico’s attitudes toward gender equality.

    International Women’s Day highlights work still needed on gender equality

    Gender parity, safety, femicide: half of Mexico’s population have some concerns they’d really like to see the nation properly address.

    March 10
  • migrants in tapachula

    Mexico’s increasingly complicated immigration policy (dilemma)

    The president nimbly dealt with the issue of Mexican workers in the US last week but punted on the thornier issue on its southern border.

    March 5
  • Average Mexicans' easy access to a wide variety of high-quality foods is one of the everyday signs of its slowly but steadily growing affluence.

    Despite visible reminders of poverty, Mexico’s affluence trends upward

    Late-model cars and well-stocked supermarkets are everyday signs proving what statistics show: Mexico’s poverty rate is mostly declining.

    March 4
  • When Mexico's kids go back to school, it won't look like this.

    When that green stoplight sends our kids back to school, we must be ready

    A plan for safe in-person classes, vaccines for teachers, and keeping schools out of bankruptcy will all be crucial. Just how ready are we?

    March 3
  • pemex truck

    President’s policies fatally undermine the energy companies he needs for funds

    AMLO dreams of times when Pemex was a cash cow. Yet those days are long gone, and his policies all but guarantee they will remain so.

    March 3
  • Orbia decided against selling its profitable vinyls business.

    Mexican conglomerate pulls out of landmark sale of its core business

    Orbia — formerly Mexichem — had decided its vinyls business no longer fit with its vision. But then the latest financial results came out.

    March 2
  • cfe and pemex

    Texas freeze heats up López Obrador’s energy self-sufficiency plans

    Crazy as it sounds, the Texas freeze was manna from heaven for President López Obrador’s nationalistic energy ambitions.

    February 26
  • Health workers being vaccinated in Guadalajara earlier this month.

    Please accept your vaccine so all our lives can go back to normal

    Vaccines promise a pathway out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but how do we reach herd immunity in our communities if too many refuse the shot?

    February 24
  • Leonardo DiCaprio at the People’s Climate March in 2014.

    Sustainable climate solutions require facts, not strong beliefs

    The world needs cleaner energy, one that is abundant, clean, cheap and efficient. But what’s the best way to achieve that?

    February 23
  • The Teeter Totter Wall art project gave people in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the chance to play together despite the border wall.

    Healing the US-Mexico border divide calls for ingenuity and some chutzpah

    A teeter-totter briefly installed at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in 2019 symbolizes the mindset needed for positive immigration solutions.

    February 22
  • The city’s single-use plastics ban pulled plastic-applicator tampons off store shelves. Eco-friendly alternatives like the menstrual cup are pricier in the short-term.

    Mexico City’s plastics ban doesn’t factor in the capital’s economic divide

    Most eco-friendly alternatives to disposable products aren’t cheap, especially when Covid-19 has done a number on many people’s income.

    February 17
  • A makeshift migrant camp in Matamoros by the US border.

    As Biden and AMLO reexamine immigration policy, balance is key

    Writer Sarah DeVries hopes Mexico and the U.S. can keep migrants’ humanity in mind, yet also not create an open invitation at the border.

    February 10
  • electricity generation plant

    With state-led, fossil fuel-powered energy vision, Mexico on a worrying course

    López Obrador is contravening trade deals, hurting investment, damaging consumers and betraying climate change commitments all at once.

    February 8
  • covid vaccination

    Mexico’s pandemic optimism falls flat after president catches virus

    Mixed messaging, positive spin have been hallmarks of the Covid crisis.

    February 8
  • San Caralampio, a third-century saint and martyr, is revered in Comitán for protecting the population from disease. He gets a lively procession each year.

    Daily life in safe, idyllic Comitán is a reminder of the ‘old normal’

    Carlisle Johnson heads for this hidden Chiapas gem when in need of a break somewhere that reminds him of Mexico as it was before Covid-19.

    February 6
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