Mexico

As fighting between rival drug cartels intensifies Rosenburg looks as the social dislocation which is occuring for the people who live in the worst hit areas.

As the next round of climate change talks approaches in Cancun later this month Laura Carlson discusses the problems with pursuing solutions based on the current world economic and political model. Caravans will approach Cancun from across Mexico to ho

Arsenault looks back at the acheivements of the Zapatista rebellion 17 years on.

As the milestone of 3000 deaths within a year is passed in Cuidad Juárez; Michael Deibert looks at the reasons behind the violence.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of a coalition of three left-of-centre parties in the general elections to be held in Mexico in July, is seeking out support from social movements.

The author argues that the Mexican government is resisting attempts to put an end to military impunity.

As 2010 drew to a close Calderón acknowledged that it had been the bloodiest on record; as the fight against the drug lords continues. (English/Espanol)

Sixty women killed in the first quarter of this year alone in the state of Chihuahua.

Ledy Pech Martín is a Mexican Indigenous beekeeper who led the fight against the multinational giant, Monsanto, and won. She is an environmental defender who has worked tirelessly to raise awareness over pesticide use and its effects on the natural habitat of bees, as well as the honey supply that is crucial to the livelihoods of indigenous Mayans in the Yucatán peninsula. 

New cables revealed in El Pais, a Madrid daily, show how Latin American countries are increasingly wary of China's growing presence in the region.