Should ex-officials be tried for criminal conduct, a countrywide referendum held in Mexico on Sunday asked. Voter turnout was low.
Mexico articles on Democracy Chronicles
News about the struggle for better democracy in Mexico. According to Freedom House, Mexico is an electoral democracy and even notes that the Federal Electoral Institute which supervises elections has come to be viewed as a model for other countries. Also check out our section on World Democracy and the Americas.
Ancient Maya Houses Show Inequality Is Tied To Despotic Governance
The countries with the greatest wealth disparity often had regimes that centralized power in a limited number of citizens.
Huelga and Boycott: weapons to defend ourselves
Cesar Chavez said we only have two weapons to defend ourselves; Huelga and Boycott. These too are the response to blasé to shared scrape.
China is Training the Mexican Army and Americans are not Aware of it
Americans are not aware that China is training the Mexican army. The presence of China on our border is the result of lack of planning and self-interest.
Mexico: criminal defamation threatens free expression
Mexican journalist Sergio Aguayo Quezada exposed corruption in Coahuila State and instead got a conviction, a dangerous precedent for freedom of expression.
Social action is the best approach to a stormy 2020, here’s how to be effective
The social climate barometer points to a stormy 2020 that can only be confronted through social action, but there are protocols to follow to be effective.
2020 Democrats feel more emboldened to label Trump a racist
Democratic presidential candidates are growing increasingly comfortable labeling President Trump a racist or a white supremacist.
The Menudo Story
Immigration has historically been a controversial issue in the US political discourse. Whether Germans, Irish, Italians, Asians or Latin Americans they have all faced resistance based at worst on racist or nativist attitudes.
Ramsey Muñiz; The Rebirth
New book profiles Ramsey Muñiz’s endurance of close to three decades imprisonment including five years in solitary confinement, as a deeply spiritual man who hasn’t lost his sense of justice.
43 Disappeared Mexican Students Remembered in Ai Weiwei Exhibit
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s interest in studying human rights around world led to meeting with relatives of 43 students who disappeared in Mexico in 2014.