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Confronting COVID-19 in Mexico

It has now been more than 100 years since the “Spanish Influenza,” and more than a decade since the H1N1 outbreak. With nearly...

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Mexico Land of Refugees

In March of last year, Alba Luz Maldonado Paz left her Honduras town in search of a better life. The 36-year-old woman said...

Sex Trafficking
Labor trafficking is hard to criminally prosecute | Courtesy of Polaris
World

Sex Trafficking Out of Latin America

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1503304317525{padding-top: 12px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sex Trafficking from Latin America Is Just a Slice of the Slave Labor Market     Thousands of women...

Avocado Cartels
Mexico exports avocados to meet insatiable U.S. demand | Flickr
World

Avocado Cartels: The Violent Reality Behind “Green Gold”

Our appetite for avocados has made them more valuable than cannabis in Mexico—and drug syndicates have taken notice, forming veritable avocado cartels. Here’s...

Biometrics
The dehumanizing effects of biometric scanning | Flickr
Politics

Biometrics: The U.S. and Mexico Are Scanning Migrants

Immigrant families fleeing civil strife must give up their privacy in new ways. Under mounting political pressure from its northern neighbor, Mexico has...

San Judas Tadeo
All photographs by Carlos Álvarez Montero
Arts

Carlos Álvarez Montero: Day of San Judas Tadeo

The Mexico City-based photographer captures the hope and faith of the worshippers of San Judas Tadeo. Montero’s photography focuses on the relationship between...

fanzines
Photos by Angelica Liv
World

Recorriendo latinoamérica a través de sus fanzines

Los fanzines retratan el panorama social, afectivo, político y cultural de quien lo escribe, corta, dibuja e imprime. Cuando me invitó Inteligencia a...

Machismo
Politics

Gun in His House: An Argument Against Machismo

I come from a long line of Mexican machos, mustachioed and hard-working, brutal and generous, hilarious and cruel. Gun-toting, farm-laboring, factory-working, tequila and...