Tag Archives: Mexico
Fugitive Mexican Politician Mounts Social Media Campaign to Clear His Name
Former Tamaulipas Gov. Tomas Yarrington Ruvacalba is just the latest Mexican politician with legal issues in Texas....Read More
Border Residents Tell Congress They Need Better Schools and Jobs, Not More Drones and Guns
In April 2012, PBS aired footage of as many as 20 border agents beating an unarmed man, Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, to death. After viewing the shocking footage,...Read More
Profiting from Education Reform in Mexico
For opponents of Mexico's sweeping new education reforms, the Mexican education system is clumsily following the path to privatized education and standardized t...Read More
Anabel Hernandez on Mexico’s Lost Drug War and Her New Book Narcoland
Melissa del Bosque interviews Anabel Hernadez, author of Narcoland, a new book on corruption and drug cartels in Mexico....Read More
Member of Well-Known Mexican Activist Family Granted Asylum
Marisela Reyes Salazar, a human rights activist from Mexico, has won her political asylum case in the United States. ...Read More
On the Border, a Struggle over Water
As the Rio Grande runs dry, Texas and Mexico fight for a diminishing resource.
More than ever, the replenishing waters of Mexico’s Rio Conchos are crucial to reviving the Rio Grande and to saving farmers in the Rio Grande Valley....Read More
A Photojournalist Who Fled Mexico is Granted Asylum
One year ago, 31-year-old photojournalist Miguel Angel Lopez Solana fled Mexico because he no longer felt safe in his homeland. His father, the noted columnist ...Read More
Lawsuit Claims Woman’s Deportation was a Death Sentence
The U.S. government deported 387,790 people in 2009, one of them a frightened 22-year-old victim of domestic abuse known, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, as “La...Read More
Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker
Officers from the Zapata County sheriff’s department, Border Patrol and Texas Parks & Wildlife told anglers, “We can’t help you once you cross into Mexico...Read More