U.S. officials are propping up the capture of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as a major drug war victory. They’re wrong.
El Chapo Capture: What Happens When the Kingpin Falls?
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Mexico
Zapatistas at Twenty
There are two tests of social change movements: endurance and regeneration. After two decades, Mexico’s Zapatista movement can now say it passed both.
NAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
NAFTA gave multinational corporations the right to sue governments to block regulations they don’t like, undermining democracy and local sovereignty.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Farmer
In the United States and throughout North America, NAFTA has accelerated the industrial consolidation of agriculture and pushed out smaller, more sustainable food producers.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Worker
Twenty years since its passage, NAFTA has displaced workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, depressed wages, weakened unions, and set the terms of the neoliberal global economy.
In What World Does Spending 3/4 of a Billion Dollars on One Bomber Make Sense?
The more state-of-the-art military technology is the more can go wrong with it ― especially during war-time.
America Under Assault
We often hear of U.S. guns turning up at crimes scenes abroad. But we rarely hear about how many foreign-made guns find their way to the United States.
Eric Olson
Eric L. Olson is a senior advisor at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.
Katie Kohlstedt
Katie Kohlstedt is a program associate at the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City.
Our Osmotic Border
In the U.S. immigration debate, we have thus far focused our attention on the symptom—Mexicans crossing the semi-permeable barrier into the United States—and treated the crossing itself as the problem to be solved. In other words, policy makers have been preoccupied with figuring out how to make the border less permeable. But this is a fool’s errand. It’s time to start looking at the pressures that drive unidirectional movement instead of at the symptom.