Americas

The crisis in Honduras is escalating. More than two weeks after general elections, the country is still without a president-elect. Nationwide marches, highway blockades, and neighborhood and community rallies continue to pop up around the country. As evidence of electoral fraud mounts, so does attention to the US role in the crisis.

Natural resource corporations are flocking to the mountainous Sierra Norte of Mexico’s Puebla state. In recent years, this remote area has seen an explosion of investment, and today is considered the next frontier for everything from gold mining to hydraulic fracturing and hydroelectricity. Leftist and environmental activists in this region of Central Mexico say the companies are bringing drugs, crime, and ruining the ancestral lands of indigenous Mexicans.

Following the ‘Che route’ to the remote spot where the revolutionary icon was executed.

The president has abetted the collapse of a decaying system; Chomsky explains how.

Today, as federal agents hunt for undocumented immigrants, breaking up families who have lived here for many years, many Americans are remembering the political efficacy and moral power of the Underground Railroad. It is time to put its lessons again into practice.

Mexico's sugar skulls make death beautiful, political, and humorous. “I consider this art," sugar skull artist Araceli Sanchez Millán explained. "Death happens to everyone, and what we are doing here is representing that. We're also protecting a culture from pre-hispanic times. The skulls we make mean a lot."