How to psychologically cope with living in a country with more fatalities than a war zone? For Mexicans, the response is increasingly detachment, depersonalisation, and adherence to daily routines.
A line of people outside the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
How can we possibly know how many millions of people are living in the U.S. illegally? Demographers have actually refined a simple formula that’s worked pretty well since the 1970s.
A dead vaquita entangled in a gillnet.
NOAA Fisheries West Coast
As the vaquita porpoise heads towards extinction, new management measures in Mexico still may have missed the point – affecting not one but two critically endangered marine species.
Research shows voters penalise candidates who make accusations of fraud that aren’t credible, especially if they lose by a wide margin.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Climate change and tourism development in Mexico are altering the country’s shoreline, endangering the habitat of sea turtles. But tourists prefer pristine, natural beaches, too.
Women across Latin America took to the streets after a 16-year-old girl was raped and murdered in a coastal town of Argentina in October 2016.
Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Ariadna Estévez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
The recent violent rape and murder of a 16-year-old Argentinian girl has sparked a region-wide protest movement against sexual violence in Latin America.
A protester jumps over a wall erected at Washington State University.
AP
A proposal last month to legalise gay marriage in Mexico caused widespread protests, defending “Catholic values” and the “traditional family.” Deeper analysis reveals flaws in those arguments.
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
Relatives of 43 missing students march before receiving a report into the disappearances.
Ginnette Riquelme/Reuters
The facts contradict Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric, but US mischaracterisation of its southern neighbor isn’t new to this election season - nor will it end in November.