Mujeres, cooperativas y colectivas solidarias. Una mirada feminista - Dra. Josefina Cendejas Guízar
"Si las reformas legislativas y las políticas no se hacen con una perspectiva de género, tampoco abonarán al avance de la igualdad sustantiva"
#cooperativas #mexico #feminista#CoopsYear#Cooperatives #rosalux
As is the case with every city hosting an international sporting event, Mexico City has now announced a shiny new mass surveillance project in time for next year's World Cup: "Ojos que te cuidan," "Eyes that care for you."
Just in case the name itself weren't panoptic enough, the coverage, the #CCTV photos!!!! by this sports tabloid are… is it in bad taste to say, chef's kiss*?
* for someone writing a dissertation/book on #surveillance in #Mexico
As is the case with every city hosting an international sporting event, Mexico City has now announced a shiny new mass surveillance project in time for next year's World Cup: "Ojos que te cuidan," "Eyes that care for you."
Just in case the name itself weren't panoptic enough, the coverage, the #CCTV photos!!!! by this sports tabloid are… is it in bad taste to say, chef's kiss*?
* for someone writing a dissertation/book on #surveillance in #Mexico
"We don’t only fight for the freedom of our compañeras but also for the abolition of prisons, and the search for a system of justice where punishment and punitivism are not the central axle"
https://comunidadplanetariajunax.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-no-estamos-todes
"We don’t only fight for the freedom of our compañeras but also for the abolition of prisons, and the search for a system of justice where punishment and punitivism are not the central axle"
https://comunidadplanetariajunax.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-no-estamos-todes
How Mexico lifted 13.4 million out of poverty in six years. Rather than poverty reduction stemming from economic growth, it has been achieved through a redistribution of resources.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/26/how-mexico-lifted-13-4-million-out-of-poverty-in-six-years/
How #Guatemala, #Mexico, and #Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of #Mayan#Forest
Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers won’t be easy.
By Sonia Pérez D. And María Verza, Aug. 21, 2025
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — "Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers won’t be easy.
The nature reserve announced last week and called the #GreatMayanJungleBioculturalCorridor would stretch across jungle areas of southern Mexico and northern parts of the two Central American nations, encompassing more than 14 million acres (5.7 million hectares). It would become the second largest reserve in the Americas, behind only the Amazon.
In interviews this week, the environment ministers of Mexico and Guatemala emphasized the need for security, while also expressing the intention of administrations in both countries to avoid destructive projects in the area.
" 'The first thing is that the security forces begin to have a presence,' because the region has been abandoned and left to organized crime, Guatemala Environment Minister Patricia Orantes said. 'This is not primarily an environmental battle. We’re talking about the Guatemalan state needing to retake control of its territory.'
"#Environmental groups have long said that the jungle on both sides of the Mexico-Guatemala border is dotted with clandestine landing strips for cocaine-laden planes, smugglers moving migrants north and illegal loggers.
"Mexico Environment Secretary Alicia Bárcena said that all three countries will need to boost their security presence in the reserve. 'We’re not going to protect the forest ourselves, the security secretary has to help, the army,' Bárcena said.
Communities as allies
"Just sending troops will likely be insufficient, as Mexico’s experience along another part of its southern border in Chiapas has shown. Organized crime has infiltrated economically-strapped communities with few options and it has been difficult to root them out.
"Guatemalan lawyer and environmental activist Rafael Maldonado said it will be vital 'to convert communities that are believed to participate in drug trafficking into allies of the park.'
"To do that, Orantes said the government must offer economic alternatives to those residents.
"One proposal from Mexico is the expansion of its '#PlantingLife' program, which offers landowners money to grow certain kinds of #trees either for #fruit or #timber. The program has a $2 billion budget, Bárcena said.
"But the program, which dates to ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has faced criticism. In 2021, the World Resources Institute reported that it had actually incentivized deforestation in Campeche state. Bárcena said the program is being adjusted to better meet environmental objectives.
"Mexican sustainability and climate action expert Juan Carlos Franco, who works in southern Mexico, said security is crucial and requires the government to act as 'guarantor.' But the work has to be carried out with civil society in the #LocalCommunities, including in places where locals have found ways to coexist with the illegal activity surrounding them, he said.
" 'Communities oriented toward the #biocultural management of the territory can overcome despite the crime, that’s the most revealing message,' he said.
"Another challenge will be holding governments over the long term to commitments to forgo big projects that promise economic development but threaten environmental damage, such as Mexico’s tourist rail operation, the Maya Train, which Belize is interested in extending to its territory.
"Orantes, the Guatemala minister, said that Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo would not allow megaprojects in the reserve because when access is opened in the forest it becomes difficult to control everything that follows.
"Arévalo recently declined to renew the contract of a #petroleum company that had been operating for 40 years in a Guatemalan reserve known as the #Maya Biosphere.
"Guatemala is making the largest land contribution to the reserve, encompassing 27 existing protected areas. Arévalo had already made clear that he would not run an extension of the Maya Train proposed by Mexico’s last president through protected areas.
In Mexico, Bárcena noted that the 950-mile (1,500-kilometer) train line, which started running in late 2023 and goes in a rough loop around the Yucatan Peninsula, lies outside the new reserve’s territory.
"She said her agency was working to alleviate some of the environmental impacts of the train line, in collaboration with companies operated by the Mexican Army, which built a large portion of the rail line and operates the train.
"To avoid destructive projects in the new reserve, the three governments agreed to create a council made up of environmental authorities, as well as an Indigenous advisory council, Bárcena said. Any proposed projects in the reserve would have to pass through them.
"Some Mexican activists, like Pedro Uc who lives in the Yucatan, remain skeptical of the government’s commitment to conservation considering the same political party that brought the Maya Train remains in power in Mexico. Others like Franco are willing to move ahead and keep the pressure on the three governments to maintain their commitments."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/GyXR8
#SolarPunkSunday #ForestsAreLife #ProtectTheForest#PreserveNature#CentralAmerica
How #Guatemala, #Mexico, and #Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of #Mayan#Forest
Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers won’t be easy.
By Sonia Pérez D. And María Verza, Aug. 21, 2025
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — "Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries. Pushing out criminal gangs and protecting the land from ranchers, miners and loggers won’t be easy.
The nature reserve announced last week and called the #GreatMayanJungleBioculturalCorridor would stretch across jungle areas of southern Mexico and northern parts of the two Central American nations, encompassing more than 14 million acres (5.7 million hectares). It would become the second largest reserve in the Americas, behind only the Amazon.
In interviews this week, the environment ministers of Mexico and Guatemala emphasized the need for security, while also expressing the intention of administrations in both countries to avoid destructive projects in the area.
" 'The first thing is that the security forces begin to have a presence,' because the region has been abandoned and left to organized crime, Guatemala Environment Minister Patricia Orantes said. 'This is not primarily an environmental battle. We’re talking about the Guatemalan state needing to retake control of its territory.'
"#Environmental groups have long said that the jungle on both sides of the Mexico-Guatemala border is dotted with clandestine landing strips for cocaine-laden planes, smugglers moving migrants north and illegal loggers.
"Mexico Environment Secretary Alicia Bárcena said that all three countries will need to boost their security presence in the reserve. 'We’re not going to protect the forest ourselves, the security secretary has to help, the army,' Bárcena said.
Communities as allies
"Just sending troops will likely be insufficient, as Mexico’s experience along another part of its southern border in Chiapas has shown. Organized crime has infiltrated economically-strapped communities with few options and it has been difficult to root them out.
"Guatemalan lawyer and environmental activist Rafael Maldonado said it will be vital 'to convert communities that are believed to participate in drug trafficking into allies of the park.'
"To do that, Orantes said the government must offer economic alternatives to those residents.
"One proposal from Mexico is the expansion of its '#PlantingLife' program, which offers landowners money to grow certain kinds of #trees either for #fruit or #timber. The program has a $2 billion budget, Bárcena said.
"But the program, which dates to ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has faced criticism. In 2021, the World Resources Institute reported that it had actually incentivized deforestation in Campeche state. Bárcena said the program is being adjusted to better meet environmental objectives.
"Mexican sustainability and climate action expert Juan Carlos Franco, who works in southern Mexico, said security is crucial and requires the government to act as 'guarantor.' But the work has to be carried out with civil society in the #LocalCommunities, including in places where locals have found ways to coexist with the illegal activity surrounding them, he said.
" 'Communities oriented toward the #biocultural management of the territory can overcome despite the crime, that’s the most revealing message,' he said.
"Another challenge will be holding governments over the long term to commitments to forgo big projects that promise economic development but threaten environmental damage, such as Mexico’s tourist rail operation, the Maya Train, which Belize is interested in extending to its territory.
"Orantes, the Guatemala minister, said that Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo would not allow megaprojects in the reserve because when access is opened in the forest it becomes difficult to control everything that follows.
"Arévalo recently declined to renew the contract of a #petroleum company that had been operating for 40 years in a Guatemalan reserve known as the #Maya Biosphere.
"Guatemala is making the largest land contribution to the reserve, encompassing 27 existing protected areas. Arévalo had already made clear that he would not run an extension of the Maya Train proposed by Mexico’s last president through protected areas.
In Mexico, Bárcena noted that the 950-mile (1,500-kilometer) train line, which started running in late 2023 and goes in a rough loop around the Yucatan Peninsula, lies outside the new reserve’s territory.
"She said her agency was working to alleviate some of the environmental impacts of the train line, in collaboration with companies operated by the Mexican Army, which built a large portion of the rail line and operates the train.
"To avoid destructive projects in the new reserve, the three governments agreed to create a council made up of environmental authorities, as well as an Indigenous advisory council, Bárcena said. Any proposed projects in the reserve would have to pass through them.
"Some Mexican activists, like Pedro Uc who lives in the Yucatan, remain skeptical of the government’s commitment to conservation considering the same political party that brought the Maya Train remains in power in Mexico. Others like Franco are willing to move ahead and keep the pressure on the three governments to maintain their commitments."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/GyXR8
#SolarPunkSunday #ForestsAreLife #ProtectTheForest#PreserveNature#CentralAmerica
Hey, all. This seems like a pretty strong consensus.
Here in Canada, the federal government ended funding for public housing in 1994, and the entire system collapsed. Unsurprisingly, we're now in a housing crisis. We need more public housing fast.
And the BC NDP got elected 8 years ago and i figured we'd have unhoused people housed within like 2 years.
Complete flop
They acquired hundreds of housing units by buying shitty hotels, and still we have thousands on the streets.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver#burnabybc #canlab
💬 Conversatorio La voz y el territorio: derechos, lenguas indígenas y su relación con la autonomía en el siglo xxi
🌿 Participan: Josefa Sánchez Contreras, Yásnaya Elena A. Gil y Luis Manuel Amador.
🗓️ Viernes 29 de Agosto a las 12:00 hrs
🏫 Salón Jaime García Terrés - Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos de la UNAM, Ciudad de México
🌍 https://www.filuni.unam.mx/eventos/
#UNAM #mexico #ciudademexico #feriadellibro#lenguasindigenas
💬 Conversatorio La voz y el territorio: derechos, lenguas indígenas y su relación con la autonomía en el siglo xxi
🌿 Participan: Josefa Sánchez Contreras, Yásnaya Elena A. Gil y Luis Manuel Amador.
🗓️ Viernes 29 de Agosto a las 12:00 hrs
🏫 Salón Jaime García Terrés - Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos de la UNAM, Ciudad de México
🌍 https://www.filuni.unam.mx/eventos/
#UNAM #mexico #ciudademexico #feriadellibro#lenguasindigenas
White Americans, you know what to do.
White Americans, you know what to do.
Y'know what is something that I find surprisingly difficult to find in Mexico City?
Corn tortilla chips!
There's convenience stores on every street corner. In America, those shops would be like 20% tortilla chips. That has not been my finding here in Mexico City.
Is that because of American corn subsidies or something? Or are tortilla chips just not a real Mexican thing?
I take it all back, there ARE violent criminals on the streets of San Francisco. They're grabbing people off the street and pepper spraying journalists.
Dollar store badges
Dollar store bank robber nylon heads
Cosplay
Kkk
Proud Boys
Nazis
They cower and run when confronted because they know they aren't legit
Why aren't Americans unmasking them and posting their citizen mugshots and pix of their license plates for doxxing?
Why aren't Americans at the very least punching these unarmed Nazis terrorist kidnappers?
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver#burnabybc #canlab
World map of paper sizes
(creator: unknown)
The c/a/n/a/d/a project is again on the wrong side of history
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver#burnabybc #canlab
US ramping up aggression in Latin America:
"The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela"
"Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum denied her administration had an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Tuesday, hours after the U.S. agency announced 'a major new initiative' to collaborate in the fight against drug cartels."
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-dea-us-border-drugs-f162fddcb6861b153f2cc166f3c2682d
Garcia Harfuch has earned praise for helping deliver on Sheinbaum's vision of increased cooperation with the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/crime-legal/battle-tested-mexico-cop/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #mexico #us #mexicousrelations
US ramping up aggression in Latin America:
"The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela"
"Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum denied her administration had an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Tuesday, hours after the U.S. agency announced 'a major new initiative' to collaborate in the fight against drug cartels."
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-dea-us-border-drugs-f162fddcb6861b153f2cc166f3c2682d
Hijas de Internet - Desafios para México en mercados digitales y competencia económica
📻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjCC2wSp8o
La desaparición de órganos autónomos clave como la COFECE y el INAI abre un debate sobre el futuro de la protección de nuestros datos, la transparencia y la competencia en el entorno digital mexicano.
#mexico #competencia #bigtech #mercadosdigitales #podcast #transparencia
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