Country Profile: Mexico

Country Profile: Mexico

The photos, facts, and politics of Mexico.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024

Introducing... Claudia Sheinbaum

Leader of the leftist National Regeneration Movement in Mexico.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
San Matías Chilazoa resident Alejandrino Pérez shows off a little bull he had made from mud at one of the village reservoirs.Photo: Noel Rojo

Hope in the water

After 17 years, Zapotec Indigenous communities in Mexico finally gain control over their water sources, reports Magdalena Rojo.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Borderlines

Borderlines

Racist excuses by Alessio Perrone.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Pipe down

Pipe down

Report on Mexico by Martha Busby.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Institutional revolution

Institutional revolution

Report from Mexico by Mattha Busby.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Martin Dee

Spotlight Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The author of bestselling novel Mexican Gothic.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Libertad Gómez, who crossed the gender barrier to become adept in the traditional Zoque decorative artform of  making ceremonial offerings with mango leaves and flowers.Photo: Changiz M Varzi

Cresting the wave

Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Socorro Aguilar de-spines a cactus pad in Real de Catorce, Mexico. She likes to cook it up with onions, tomato and chillies or drink it in smoothies.Photo: Antonio Cascio

Return to the wild

Sustainable living in Mexico, report by Antonio Cascio.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Night passage – migrants from many parts of Central America jump on a freight train leaving Irapuato in central Mexico, after waiting for more than 10 hours, en route to the Mexico-US border.

To ride The Beast

Images from the migrant route through Mexico, where desperate people risk a journey fraught with danger to try to make it to the US. Text and photos: Pablo Allison.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Andrés Manuel López Obrador or AMLO is Mexico's new leftist presidentIllustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Mexico has a new president, but can AMLO form a government for the many without taxing the wealthy.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Sonido Gallo Negro – delivering Latino-futurism with a kick.

Mixed Media: Music

Mambo Cósmico by Sonido Gallo Negro and Forest Bathing by A Hawk and a Hacksaw

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Anabela (right) provides shade during a participatory video session.Photo: Thor Morales via Insight Share

Making Waves: Anabela Carlón Flores

Nick Dowson speaks with an indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun

Latin American countries are seeing unprecedented growth in clean, cheap solar power writes Emily Earnshaw.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
Anti-gentrification saint

Anti-gentrification saint

Two artists have invented a saint to protect residents from gentrification. Yohann Koshy reports.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Photo: Tori Bush

A word with Yuri Herrera

The Mexican author and political scientist talks drugs, racism and masculinity with Graeme Green

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Photo: Iris Gonzales

Homeless voices from around the world

Civil war, mental illness, poverty, gang violence: housing insecurity has many roots.

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NI 503 - Homelessness - June, 2017
Murders most foul in Mexico

Murders most foul in Mexico

Systematic murders of activists, particularly environmentalists, often fly under the radar, says Richard Swift.

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NI 501 - Populism rises again - April, 2017
Street art in Oaxaca city centre showing President Peña Nieto shooting a high-calibre weapon.Photo: María De Vecchi Gerli

Mexican teachers fight on

Federal police use firearms on protesting dissident teachers organizing a blockade, killing eight and injuring over 100. By María De Vecchi Gerli and Jen Wilton.

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NI 496 - World Fiction Special - Exquisite short stories - October, 2016
The missing Ayotzinapa teachers remembered in Oaxaca, Mexico.Photo: Jim West/Alamy Stock Photo

The fight goes on…

Workers’ struggles and successes from around the globe, from this month's New Internationalist magazine.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Election year September, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Loneliness May, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Homelessness June, 2017
Populism rises again April, 2017
World Fiction Special - Exquisite short stories October, 2016
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
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