On June 6th, elections will be held in Mexico in which 500 councils and more than 20,300 local offices will be decided, including 15 governorships. They will be held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the passing of Samuel Ruiz Garcia, a peace-builder bishop and defender of the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Latin America.
Globalization in today's world has resulted in changes at both the micro and macro levels, with pros and cons, including new challenges when it comes to the protection of human rights (HR). The globalized world has reshaped economic powers into a world in which multinational companies have especially come to gain unprecedented power and influence.
On December 10th, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Report “Second Year, A New Human Rights Policy and Presentation of the National Human Rights Program” was presented by the Ministry of the Interior.
The first month of the coming year will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia (1924-2011), a recognized defender of the rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico and Latin America. Also known as j'Tatik Samuel (which means father in the Tseltal language), he is - possibly - the bishop who has most promoted what is usually called Indian Theology.
To understand the role that the AF play in Mexico today, it is necessary to look back at the events that triggered the army's incursion into public security actions.
In August, Mike Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Depart-ment, pointed out that the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic could be underestimated in Mexico due to the low number of tests carried out.
Much of the little that has been published in the national media about Chiapas since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has been sensationalist news about attacks against health personnel, in addition to attacks on personnel from other agencies, among other violent actions, due to the suspicion that by sanitizing, they would be spreading the coronavirus.
On July 1st of this year, the free trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, known as USMCA, came into force, an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was signed 26 years ago.
In recent weeks, Mexico became one of the countries with the most cases of COVID-19 worldwide with at least more than half a million cases of contagion (sixth place) and, by mid-August, one of those with the highest mortality rates (third place), with more than 50 thousand dead.
In recent months, a health situation has been experienced that has allowed many women to occupy other spaces of information, dissemination, political leadership, and personal and collective reflection.
These days the main topic in the news around the world is clearly the coronavirus pandemic that is the cause of COVID-19 lung disease and in many cases it structures life in a way that we have never anticipated.