Sara Yorke Stevenson as a teenager had a front-row seat to the rise and fall of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico during the Second French Intervention of the 19th century and her arrival and flight as a foreign refugee paint an unrivalled picture of aristocratic Mexican life.
As Mexico’s Congress moves forward on a long-awaited General Water Law, citizen groups warn that the federal proposal keeps intact the same privatizing model they’ve fought for decades to dismantle.
María Melendez explains why she had hope in a Mexico under Claudia Sheinbaum and how that hope is fading amid Sheinbaum's polarizing reactions to citizen outcry for security and justice.
Even the president of Mexico is not immune to inappropriate groping, and by choosing to press charges, she's put the justice system (and male entitlement) on trial.
