Mexico

The Mexican Federal Government negotiated a deal with the “Autodefensas,” or community militias, as they fight to loosen the drug cartel's monopoly on power and violence in the Mexican …

In southwest Mexico, Michoacan residents have taken up arms and formed a self-defense militia to protect themselves from violent drug cartels, succeeding where state and federal authorities have failed.

The Zapatistas, who rose up in arms against central authority in Mexico 20 years ago, are now 250,000-strong and remain independent.

NAFTA has displaced jobs and people, weakened unions and ravaged US cities and rural Mexico. But worker solidarity may be its most important product.

The Zapatistas are still running their own schools and hospitals, raising new generations, and carrying on a dialogue with the outside world that has enriched both sides.

Michoacan is one of Mexico's most lawless states, and decades ago the population learned to live with (and in many cases, live off) the drug trade.

A rise in subway fare has Mexican youth in a city-wide transportation protest, taking place in a majority of major train stations.

Mexico's growth has been weak since the ‘free trade’ deal was signed, and it missed out on the region's poverty reduction.

Democracy Now! speaks to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and author of the new report, “NAFTA at 20.”

A group of artists marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on New Year's Day with an art installation at the …