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 ...
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 ...
Inventive Nonviolence in Mexico: A Conversation With Javier Sicilia
A few days ago, I had a wide-ranging talk with Javier Sicilia, the founder of the Movement for Peace With ...
Ciudad Juárez Is Not Only Violence
Books like Murder City, by Charles Bowden, are a double-edged sword, drawing much needed attention to the violence in Ciudad ...
The President, the PRI, and the Poet
Javier Sicilia, the poet, speaking to cabinet members of the Calderón government on behalf of the Movement for Peace with ...
Gangsters or Paramilitaries: What’s in a Name?
There is some disagreement in Mexico as to whether the state and civil society are engaged in a tough battle ...
Paramilitary Justice
Last Tuesday, in broad daylight, 35 bodies were dumped around the city of Veracruz. All the bodies had a Z ...
