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Obama Should Not Prop Up Mexico’s Corrupt President
President Obama has nothing to gain, and much to lose, by propping up Mexico's corrupt President, Peña Nieto. Peña Nieto will be in Washington on Tuesday, seeking to bolster his support in the United...
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Evidence the DEA Attempted to Alter Testimony on Drug War Massacre in Honduras
Clara Wood survived a shooting carried out during a joint Honduras-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drug interdiction operation in the Moskitia region in eastern Honduras on May 11, 2012....
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Americas Program Policy Report: Border Drones a Financial and Policy Bust
President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson are committed to more drone surveillance of U.S. borders – despite mounting evidence from the government’s own investigators that the border...
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“The Other Ayotzinapa”: Organizing Against Feminicide in Mexico
Over the past weeks, the bodies of three women were found in three different municipalities of the State of Mexico. The State of Mexico is the most dangerous state for women -- 10 times more women have...
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José Mujica, from armed struggle to the presidency
Author’s note: President “Pepe”. When used like that, it sounds like an electoral slogan. But Jose Mujica is about to conclude – on Mar. 1 – his term as President and he’s more “Pepe” than ever. In...
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Crackdown on Kids
When the crisis of unaccompanied minors migrating to the United States burst onto the front pages last summer, it seemed at last the U.S. government would come to grips with its legacy of disaster...
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Civil Society Organizations Speak Out on US Central America Plan
April10, 2015 Honorable: President Barack Obama, President Otto Pérez Molina President Juan Orlando Hernández President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President Enrique Peña Nieto We, the...
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The Word Is Out: The U.S. Once Again Leads the World in Arms Sales
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released its annual assessment of the global arms trade, and the United States once again has the dubious distinction on coming in at...
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DEA Scandals Signal End of an Era
The forced resignation of DEA chief Michele Leonhart is a step in the right direction toward cleaning up one of the most wasteful and ethically questionable agencies of the federal government, the Drug...
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7 Reasons to Scrap the $1 Billion Aid Package to Central America
By: Christopher Bacon, Mark Bonta, Joe Bryan, Rebecca Clouser, Mary Finley-Brook, Richard Johnson, Kendra McSweeney, Sharlene Mollett, Catherine Nolin, Karl Offen, Zoe Pearson, Alexandra Pederson,...
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Is the Merida Initiative Working?
As Mexico continues to experience a security breakdown related to drug cartel activity and violence, spectacularly exemplified by the second escape of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the spotlight has once again...
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El Salvador Declares Gang Members Terrorists, and Violence Continues
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="196"] Members of the Cojutepeque Gang. Members of Barrio 18 imprisoned at the Cojutepeque jail, before being transferred to a maximum security prison[/caption]...
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U.S. Congress Members Oppose Security Assistance to Honduras
Members of Congress have once again called on the Obama administration to stop funding Honduras’ security forces. Alarmed at the rampant militarization of policing activities throughout the country and...
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Deportation, Detention and Abuse on the U.S.-Guatemala Border
Mexico's southern border has become the line of contention of the most powerful country in the world. The victims of this extraterritorial policy are Central American migrants who cross every day,...
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Old Cartels Never Really Die…
Despite recurrent pronouncements of death by some U.S. and Mexican officials, high-profile organized crime groups continue operating and shedding blood south of the border. Tijuana, where control of...
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Our Interview with Carlos Beristain of the GIEI
The reconstruction of events from the Attorney General’s office regarding the Ayotizinapa case has completely come undone. The results of the six month long effort by the Interdisciplinary Group of...
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Open Letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
México D.F., October 5th, 2015 Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein: The signatory organizations have the honor to address you...
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CIP Americas Program Statement on the Experts’ Ayotzinapa Report
The report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) charged with investigating the assassinations of six people and the forced disappearance of 43 students of the Raul Isidro Burgos...
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The Justice System is Rotten: Gonzalo Molina, Political Prisoner
He’s been sitting in bed for hours. When exhaustion threatens to overtake him, he uses the wall to push himself up to stand. He walks a few steps, two or three at most, and returns to his seat. He...
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Behind Ciudad Juarez’s New Labor Movement
In a virtually unprecedented development, labor protest is widening in the maquiladora industry of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. While worker dissatisfaction or protest is nothing new in the foreign-owned...
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