Carli Pierson

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A worker cleans the floor before Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City celebrates an online Mass via YouTube and television at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City March 22. (CNS/Reuters/Henry Romero)

Families in Mexico search for silver lining amid COVID-19 pandemic

Perspective: Getting out of the house to open spaces with our kids was paramount. I have seen fathers taking their children on bike rides; mothers kicking soccer balls in parks. Everyone is trying to do their best.

Journalist and activist Frida Guerrera speaks up during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's morning press conference March 4 at the National Palace in Mexico City. (Newscom/SUN/Carlos Mejía)

Despite threats, Frida Guerrera raises women's lost voices in Mexico

In Mexico, violence against women has been spiraling out of control. NCR interviews the activist who has been independently investigating and chronicling the stories of victims of femicide since 2016.

Monarch butterflies gather at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. (Wikimedia Commons/Luis Avalos)

Activists killed in Mexican state where illegal logging threatens butterflies

Commentary: Raúl Hernández and Homero Gómez, who were killed within a week of each other, advocated for the survival of monarch butterflies and the woods they migrate to every year in Michoacán state.

Demonstrators protest femicide and violence against women, in Mexico City Nov. 25, 2019, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Newscom/Sipa USA/Benedicte Desrus)

In bone-chilling numbers, femicides in Mexico are a national emergency

Commentary: On average, 10 women are murdered every day in Mexico. Says one human rights activist, "We live in a society where a social acceptance of violence against women is normalized."

US-created crisis is now a humanitarian disaster at Mexico's doorstep

Commentary: Mexico is undergoing a major refugee crisis on its borders because of the Remain in Mexico policy pushed by the Trump administration.

 

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