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2. Understanding the Impact of Remittances on Mexico’s Economy and Safeguarding Their Future Impact
- Author:
- Ryan C. Berg, Rubi Bledsoe, and Michael Ferguson
- Publication Date:
- 01-2025
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Abstract:
- Beyond providing supplemental income for Mexican households, remittances—funds sent by migrants to friends and families in their home country—provide a stable flow of developmental finance to the poorest subregions of the country, which have not historically benefited from international capital flows, such as development aid or foreign direct investment. Mexico, the world’s second-largest recipient of remittances, has seen a steady increase in the total volume of remittances received, primarily due to the strength of the U.S. labor market and concurrent wage growth among Mexican workers in the United States. Mechanisms to keep remittances secure are not impermeable to criminal organizations, which have been known to use small-increment deposits to launder gains from illicit economic activity, including drug trafficking. However, through increased U.S.-Mexico cooperation, both countries can strike the delicate balance between facilitating flows of remittances to promote development and financial inclusion and securing those funds from exploitation by illicit actors.
- Topic:
- Development, Economy, Trade, Economic Security, and Remittances
- Political Geography:
- North America and Mexico
3. The Modern Surveillance State: Mexico and the CIA during the Cold War
- Author:
- Claire Dorfman
- Publication Date:
- 05-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Newly declassified CIA documents reveal the links between Mexico’s contemporary surveillance state and a uniquely close Cold War collaboration with U.S. intelligence agencies.
- Topic:
- Cold War, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Mexico
4. Community Forestry Addresses Environmental Destruction in Mexico
- Author:
- Linda Farthing
- Publication Date:
- 05-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Community-based governance structures put decision-making about Ixlán de Juarez’s forests into local hands, creating economic opportunity and reversing centuries of deforestation in the town.
- Topic:
- Environment, Governance, Deforestation, Forestry, and Community Initiatives
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Mexico
5. The Life of a Trans Mexican Revolutionary, in Drag
- Author:
- Olivia Ferrari
- Publication Date:
- 02-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Drag performers mine the story of the revolutionary hero and trans icon Amelio Robles to better understand the past and shape the future.
- Topic:
- History, Transgender, Amelio Robles, Drag, and Mexican Revolution
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Mexico
6. Trump and the Threat of Domestic Militarization
- Author:
- Dawn Paley and Ojalá
- Publication Date:
- 01-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Mexico's experience with the militarization of prohibition and migration is defined by violence and displacement.
- Topic:
- Migration, Displacement, Violence, Donald Trump, and Militarization
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Mexico
7. Forensic Crisis Reveals Institutional Responsibility in Mexico City’s Disappearance Crisis
- Author:
- Eliana Gilet, Madeleine Wattenbarger, and Gleider I. Hernández
- Publication Date:
- 01-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- In Mexico City, families of the disappeared mobilize for justice for their loved ones and the accountability of forensic authorities.
- Topic:
- Crime, Accountability, Police, Disappearance, Activism, and Forensics
- Political Geography:
- Latin America, Mexico, and Mexico City
8. Buscadoras in Mexico Under Threat After Grisly Discovery
- Author:
- Joshua Collins and Daniela Diaz Rangel
- Publication Date:
- 03-2025
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- News of a mass grave found by civilian search collectives has reopened an old debate about a lack of political will on the part of authorities to investigate violent crime.
- Topic:
- Crime, Accountability, Police, and Mass Grave
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Mexico
9. The Economy in its Labyrinth: A Structuralist View of the Mexican Economy in the 21st Century
- Author:
- Liz Monroy Gomez Franco
- Publication Date:
- 01-2024
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Abstract:
- In this paper, I analyze the performance of the Mexican economy during the two decades of the 21st century. I focus on the aggregate and sectoral dynamics of the economy to understand the underlying dynamics behind the aggregate performance of the economy. With these results in mind, I analyze the changes and continuities in the conduction of macroeconomic and labor market policy with the arrival of a new administration in 2018. The goal of analyzing both elements is to provide an integrated view of the situation in which the Mexican economy will face three structural challenges: the medium and long-run effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the integration of artificial intelligence into the production process, and climate change.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Political Economy, History, Macroeconomics, Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, and Labor Market
- Political Geography:
- North America and Mexico
10. Information Integrity and Information Pollution: Vulnerabilities and Impact on Social Cohesion and Democracy in Mexico
- Author:
- Anita Breuer
- Publication Date:
- 01-2024
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- Abstract:
- Equal access to reliable information is essential for democracy and social cohesion. The rise of information pollution, particularly in digital spaces, poses significant challenges to democratic societies worldwide. While extensive research has focused on its impact in developed, English-speaking democracies, there is a gap in understanding its effects in younger democracies, conflict zones, and less developed contexts. This study fills that gap by analysing Mexico as a case study. Based on interviews with Mexican media professionals, public sector officials, academics and human rights defenders, the study provides insights on the root causes of the problem and and strategies to combat information pollution, safeguard democracy, and promote social cohesion, underscoring the urgency of proactive measures both within Mexico and on a global scale in Mexico, information pollution significantly threatens the country's social cohesion and democratic principles. Structural conditions like poverty, inequality, violence, corruption, and media landscape issues enable societal vulnerability to digital information pollution. Factors directly driving information pollution include the exploitation of digital spaces by drug cartels, divisive narratives against marginalised groups, an increasingly media-hostile environment as well as the incumbent government’s post-factual approach to reality and politics. Information pollution has fostered a polarised discours, contributed to eroding trust in traditional media and amplified identity-based societal cleavages. It weakens the deliberative, participatory and liberal dimensions of democracy dimensions by decreasing the quality of public debate, damaging civil society watchdog roles, and reducing government transparency and accountability. Recommendations for Mexico encompass enhancing public resilience to information through civic education and targeted communication campaigns, empowering media capacity, and fortifying an open data culture in the Mexican public sector. Internationally, efforts should address elite-driven information pollution by reinforcing independent accountability institutions and leveraging diplomatic and economic incentives against leaders attacking these institutions.
- Topic:
- Development, Democracy, Media, Social Cohesion, and Information
- Political Geography:
- North America and Mexico
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