Race, Class, and Cannabis in the Caribbean
Without sufficient regulation, drug legalization in the Caribbean could end up benefitting international business interests, and hurting those who depend ...
A Civil War in Mexico?
Considering that the human toll now tops 50,000 fatalities, Mexico's War on Drugs could more accurately be described as a ...
Echoing the State: The New York Times on Honduras
It's obvious that the U.S. government has set the agenda for The New York Times’ coverage of Honduras. As a ...
Impunity Revisited: Another Confrontation in Cherán
Just a year ago the indigenous Purépecha community of Cherán established a self-imposed “state of siege” to protect itself from ...
The Logic of a Contradiction
In what at first appears to be a contradiction, the fulsome praise lavished by U.S. officials on Mexico’s militarized “drug ...
Can a Better-Trained Police Force, Embedded in Civil Society, Defeat the Narcos?
As Mexico’s presidential campaign moves into high gear, the left-of-center candidate for the presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sketched ...
Is it Safe to Party in Cancún?
On a visit to Mexico last month Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she greatly admired President Felipe Calderón for ...
Hypocritical Justice: Police Killings Rattle Jamaica
The killing of 21 people—including a 13-year-old girl and an elderly man—by the Jamaican police in the past six days ...
