Student Research Series: UC Berkeley graduate students reflect on their fieldwork By Julia Branco A City Council meeting in Aguascalientes, Mexico. (Photo by Julia Branco). Funded in part by a Tinker Field Research grant from the Center for Latin American Studies, I spent two months in Aguascalientes, Mexico learning about climate threats in the region.... Continue Reading →
By Harley Shaiken and Representative Sander Levin (D-MICH.) This article originally appeared as an op-ed in The Hill on September 28th, 2018. A man in Nikes walks in Buenos Aires in front of "NAFTA" graffiti. (Photo by Woody Wood.) Now that Canada has joined a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), renamed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement... Continue Reading →
By Paloma Corcuera AMLO supporters fill the Toluca Plaza in Mexico. (Photo by Eneas de Troya). On July 1st we elected our future president, 9 state governors, 128 senators, and 500 lower house representatives. This election was historic not only because of the number of local and federal positions that were at stake, but also... Continue Reading →
Por Sergio Aguayo Read this entry in English here. Andrés Manuel López Obrador como candidato presidencial en 2012. (Foto por Arturo Alfaro Galán). México vive una etapa muy especial. Con la victoria de Andrés Manuel López Obrador se abre la posibilidad de que se modifiquen las reglas de su sistema político y se ataque de... Continue Reading →
By Sergio Aguayo Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a presidential candidate in 2012. (Photo by Arturo Alfaro Galán). Mexico is living through a unique reality. Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory has created opportunities to modify the rules of the political system and attack the corruption and violence that are corroding the core of the country.... Continue Reading →
By Steve Fisher AMLO during his unsuccessful 2012 presidential run in Orizaba, Veracruz. (Photo by Niña Astronauta). The president-elect of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is probably best known for his tireless pursuit of the presidency and the fact that he has visited every municipality of the country at least once. His past two bids... Continue Reading →
By Alfonso Fierro The story of Doctor Atl’s Olinka is the story of a failure. Olinka was meant to be a city for artists, intellectuals, and scientists – a place where they could work independently and collectively, in a space detached from the modern world. Dr. Atl was a disenchanted revolutionary and a landscape painter.... Continue Reading →
By Michael Mitchell I came to Tabasco, Mexico with a Fulbright research grant in August 2014 to study the socio-economic impact of small-scale fish farming in rural communities. Nestled between Chiapas and Campeche, Tabasco shares a southern border with Guatemala and is one of the primary transit points for Central American refugees and migrants into... Continue Reading →
por Lorenzo Meyer (Click here for English version of this blog) ¿Salida o Expulsión? En 2016, y tras un referéndum, Gran Bretaña votó por salirse de la Unión Europea, el “Brexit”. El 8 de noviembre de ese mismo año, las elecciones presidenciales norteamericanas le dieron el triunfo al candidato del Partido Republicano, Donald Trump, y... Continue Reading →
by Lorenzo Meyer Exit or Expulsion? In 2016, and following a referendum, Great Britain voted to leave the European Union: the “Brexit.” On November 8 of that same year, the United States’ presidential elections were won by the candidate of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and at that moment, we saw the beginning of what... Continue Reading →
