03/10/2021

FOCUS: Escazu in the Mexican Environmental Context

The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (better known as the Escazu Agreement as it was adopted in the Costa Rican city of that name), is a pioneering legal instrument on environmental protection, and at the same time a human rights treaty that proposes a transformation of environmental governance.
03/10/2021

LATEST: Mexico – June 6th Elections, biggest and most violent in history

Mexico held elections on June 6th, which were estimated to be the biggest in the country's history, since more than 20,000 popularly elected positions were contested; among them 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the governments of 15 states and thousands of positions in local congresses and city councils.
19/12/2019

ARTICLE: Civil Observation Mission in the Isthmus: Amplifying and connecting voices

With megaprojects such as the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, which will connect the ports of Salina Cruz (Oaxaca) and Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz), 47 thousand hectares already concessioned for mining, 28 wind farms and its great biodiversity, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an area of priority for the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
19/12/2019

FOCUS: Mayan Train

In the middle of the month of November of this year, the government of the "Fourth Transformation" convened the authorities and representative institutions of the municipalities and indigenous communities belonging to the indigenous Maya, Ch'ol, Tseltal, and Tsotsil, among other groups, from the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo, located in the area of the "Mayan Train Development Project".