Fast and ecumenical ceremony at the Benito Juárez monument. Credit:Daniela Pastrana/IPS

By Daniela Pastrana

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico, Feb 3, 2011 (IPS) – “The moral reserve of this country is low. People have let too many things happen without taking to the streets…and they continue to let them go by,” peace activist Pietro Ameglio told IPS in this Mexican border city.
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Un niño que vio agonizar a su madre permanece en la escena del crimen ante la indiferencia de los militares. Crédito: Cortesía de El Diario, de Ciudad Juárez.

Por Daniela Pastrana

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, México, 1 feb (IPS TerraViva) – “La reserva moral de este país está baja. Dejó pasar demasiadas cosas sin estar en la calle… y sigue dejando pasar demasiadas cosas”, sentencia el profesor ítalo-mexicano Pietro Ameglio, de la organización humanitaria Servicio Paz y Justicia (Serpaj). Continue Reading

By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Feb 1, 2011 (IPS/TerraViva) – Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue.
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Lenhador no Estado de Chiapas, México. Crédito: Mauricio Ramos/IPS TerraViva

Emilio Godoy

Cidade do México, México, 6/1/2011, (IPS TerraViva) – Por sua experiência em projetos comunitários florestais, o México pode dar pistas sobre como aproveitar adequadamente as áreas de floresta e incentivar o desenvolvimento das economias locais em 2011, Ano Internacional das Florestas. Continue Reading

There could be 100 million climate refugees in the next five to seven years, warns Leonardo Boff. Credit:Daniela Pastrana/IPS

Daniela Pastrana interviews LEONARDO BOFF, Brazilian writer and theologian*

MEXICO CITY, Dec 28, 2010 (Tierramérica) – “The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,” says theologian and environmentalist Leonardo Boff, professor at Brazil’s State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature.
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Market in Espinal where the túmin community currency is used. Credit:Courtesy of Intercultural University of Veracruz

By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Dec 21, 2010 (IPS) – Túmin, which means “money” in the Totonaca indigenous language, is a community currency now circulating among 80 vendors selling their products at an alternative market in the town of Espinal, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz.
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Apaxco and Atotonilco residents have staged a peaceful sit-in against the Ecoltec plant for nearly 18 months. Credit: Greenpeace.

By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – A waste processing company and the surrounding community are at odds over the operation of a plant that provides energy for Mexico’s cement industry.
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By Emilio Godoy

ATLAUTLA, Mexico, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – Every year since 1975, Castro Solano has left his home in the town of Tlapa de Comonfort, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, to work in other parts of the country as a seasonal farm labourer.
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Por Emilio Godoy

ATLAUTLA, México, 20 oct (IPS/TerraViva) – Cada año, desde 1975, el indígena mexicano Castro Solano deja su hogar en la ciudad de Tlapa de Comonfort, en el sureño estado de Guerrero, para recorrer el país como obrero agrícola temporero.
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After the chemical explosion in March, protesters from Izúcar blocked the factory, now closed. Credit:Emilio Godoy/IPS

By Emilio Godoy

IZÚCAR DE MATAMOROS, Mexico, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) – “People want to get rid of the factory. It has to go. There’s already been an accident,” a taxi driver said on the drive to the pesticide plant belonging to the Agricultura Nacional company in this southern Mexican city. Continue Reading