What Is Going on in Mexico? Let Twitter and Facebook Tell You

What Is Going on in Mexico? Let Twitter and Facebook Tell You

Mary Mata July 10, 2012

By Rebeldes, Latino Rebels Yes, some outlets (like The Washington Post) covered this weekend’s protests in Mexico, where thousands of people all over the county marched peacefully to speak out against the alleged […]

Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment News

Mary Mata

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile   The Spanish company, Solarpack, was chosen by the mining company, Collahuasi, to provide 60,000 megawatt hours per year of solar energy to the mining […]

Journalist’s Political Asylum Denial Makes News

Mary Mata July 9, 2012

By Veronica Villafañe, Media Moves Mario Guevara, a reporter for Mundo Hispánico, the Spanish-language weekly published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, has made headlines. The Salvadoran photojournalist, who has been […]

Finding Oscar: A Father And Son Reunite Three Decades Later

Mary Mata July 5, 2012

By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica Read our original story, “Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala.” It was a day of firsts for Tranquilino Castañeda, a 70-year-old farmer from a jungle village […]

The Troubling Death Of An Intern

Mary Mata July 4, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi Four days before Armando Montaño’s body was found in a Mexico City apartment elevator shaft, the 22-year-old Colorado Springs wire service intern reported on an airport confrontation in […]

Latin America Climate, Energy And Environment News

Mary Mata July 3, 2012

By Amanda Maxwell, La Onda Verde Chile This week, Chile signed agreements with China and South Korea that will help expand the country’s renewable energy portfolio. On Tuesday it was […]

Former Agent Recounts Life on the Frontline of Drug War

Mary Mata June 28, 2012

By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer During his 27 years in federal law enforcement, David Ramirez posed as a high level drug smuggler, nearly suffocated in a car trunk […]

Rafael Correa: The Minor-League Caudillo

Mary Mata June 27, 2012

By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi CHICAGO — You’ll have to forgive me for taking on an obscure topic today, but it’s not often that my father’s stunningly beautiful homeland is […]

Indictment Links Texas Horse Stable to Zeta Money Laundering

Mary Mata June 25, 2012

By Andrew Wheat and Forrest Wilder, The Texas Observer A prominent Texas family with connections to the state’s top officials is alleged to have purchased and boarded horses for a […]

Unaccompanied Migrant Children Requires Congressional Attention

Mary Mata June 19, 2012

By Lavinia Limon, The Texas Observer Despite border fences, increased militarization and drones patrolling our southern border, every year thousands of children from Latin America traveling without parents or adult […]