Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Anayeli Garcia Martinez – Truthout – Tuesday, 17 July 2012 (originally published 14 Jul) Mexico City – Female candidates are poised to occupy an unprecedented third of the seats in Mexico’s bicameral parliament when preliminary results for the Jul.1 election are confirmed. In the lower chamber, 95 women were elected through direct vote (in a relative majority [...]
Louis E.V. Nevaer – New America Media – Thursday, 17 November 2011 (originally published 14 Nov) MERIDA, Mexico – In less than nine months, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect a new president, and already the tantalizing question has set social media here all abuzz: Is Mexico ready to elect a woman? Mexico [...]
William Lloyd-George – The Independent World – Monday, 6 June, 2011 On the streets of a Mexican border town notorious for its vicious drug war, ‘Las Guerreras’, a brave group of female bikers, are fighting back. William Lloyd-George reports It is another baking hot day in Ciudad Juarez on the US-Mexican border when the usual [...]
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui – Forbes – Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 (originally published 29 April) Felipa Moreno was born in Lerdo, Durango and is in her mid 70s. She has six kids, two boys and four girls. During her early years of marriage Doña Lipa, as she is called in her community, was just a housewife, [...]
Salem-News.com – Wednesday, 26 January, 2011 (originally published 20 Jan) (LAS CRUCES, N.M.) – If anything marks the first weeks of 2011 in Mexico and the Paso del Norte border region, it is the growth of citizen activism in response to femicide, human rights violations and a broad range of atrocities stemming from the so-called [...]
