Mexico
Coffee justice in Mexico
Café Justo’s alternative to the fair trade model keeps the means of production—and most of the profit—in the local community.
Border encounters
The US-Mexico border is rich with ordinary life—not just the sort of stories amplified by political rhetoric.
Joel Agee’s novel of childhood wonder and terror
Fantastical things surround six-year-olds everywhere.
One woman’s mission to create a thru-hiking trail in Mexico
“The most magical part of thru-hiking is the community that we share.”
How will history judge Latin American churches’ COVID response?
Likely with both praise and blame.
Mixtec people and their voices
Behind Roma is a complex history of indigenous lives and faiths.
Communion at the border wall in Tijuana
What does it mean to worship in the middle of a wound?
On patrol at the border
When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.
A visit to the border with the New Sanctuary Coalition
In Tijuana, we witnessed the resilience and humanity of the migrant movement.
In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón portrays life amid Mexico’s class divides
In Cuarón’s film, both love and violence come in waves.
The U.S.-Mexico border, where migrants are hunted
What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?
Catholic, Aztec Mexico
In the 500 years since Catholicism came to Mexico, it has profoundly shaped and been shaped by the indigenous culture.
On the other side: An electrician shines shoes in Tijuana
"I went to college," the man said. "I got one more year, then I go over there and start working."
Missing in Mexico: The search for Central American migrants
In a caravan of 45 people, mostly mothers looking for their disappeared children, Santos del Socorro Rojas was one of the lucky ones.
Border crossing: Communion at Friendship Park
For generations residents of San Diego and Tijuana have gathered at Friendship Park to visit with family and friends through the border fence. In coming months the Department of Homeland Security will erect a secondary fence across the park, eliminating public access to this historic meeting place. Until then, I will serve Communion at Friendship Park each Sunday afternoon, distributing the elements through the border fence.
Where the jobs are: NAFTA and Mexican immigration
The collapse of immigration reform legislation is best understood not as a failure of short-term political leadership, but rather as an inevitable long-term consequence of NAFTA. NAFTA’s architects believed that as goods and services began to flow in unprecedented volume throughout the world’s largest free market, low-wage labor would remain largely fixed.Unfortunately, the unleashed forces of the free market uprooted longstanding social and economic arrangements in Mexico and caused the already meager economic opportunities, especially in the rural parts of the country, to evaporate. Millions of Mexican people—the bearers of cheap labor—were compelled to seek out their most rational reallocation.