Mexico

Despite Setbacks and Elite Opposition, AMLO Remains Popular in Mexico

Understanding AMLO's popularity—he is by some measures the most domestically popular leader in the world—requires leaving the elite precincts of Mexico City, ignoring the statements of wealthy opponents, and visiting the impoverished regions of southern Mexico. 

The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Washington History Seminar, Mon. 9/27)

Eric Zolov addresses the Washington History Seminar to talk about his revisionist interpretation of Mexican history in the 1960s, when the government tried "to broaden Mexico's international relations and break free of economic subordination to Washington." Zoom, Monday, Sept. 27, 4:00 PM EDT. 

What Does President Biden Need To Understand About Mexico?

Historian Patrick Iber discusses the current politics of Mexico and the historical nature of the country's relationship with its northern neighbor. 

The Immovable AMLO

by Humberto Beck, Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber

"AMLO continues to decry the faults of neoliberalism, but his government is, for the most part, failing to build an effective alternative to it."

Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre

by Laura Castellanos

The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians. 

Why abruptly abandoning the drug war is a bad idea for Mexico

by Aileen Teague

Long-term economic initiatives are good, but a power vacuum will make things more violent in the short term.

Mormons in Mexico: A brief history of polygamy, cartel violence and faith

by Rebecca Janzen

Along with the Romneys – relatives of Sen. Mitt Romney, whose father was born in Mexico – the LeBarons are among the most storied families in Mormon history.

'I Cry All the Time.' A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition

by Jasmine Aguilera

A century after a massacre of Mexican men by white Texans, these families are speaking up and telling the world what happened. 

Can you name the Republican president who risked his career for Mexico?

by Michael Hogan

A failure to teach the full and complex 19th century history of the U.S. and Mexico in U.S. classrooms has resulted in ignorance that helps feed anti-Mexico prejudice. 

When the American right loved Mexico

by Mario Del Pero and Vanni Pettinà

Back when conservatives exalted free markets, our neighbor to the south was a vital ally.

The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

The Original Border Wall

by Robert T. C. Goodwin

Spanish Presidios and Mexican Leather-Jackets in 1772

Archaeologists Find Trove Of Maya Artifacts Dating Back 1,000 Years

This collection may help researchers in their quest to learn more information about the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization.

Cynthia E. Orozco presents at Latino history Texas symposium

Orozco is the author of "No Mexicans, Women or Dogs, the Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement," a history of the origins of LULAC.

Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future

Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.

Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall’s wild origins

President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history

Archaeologists Find First-Known Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ in Mexico

While the rituals associated with the site may not be entirely clear, identifying the ruins of a temple to the deity Xipe Tóte is an important discovery

What’s More Deadly to Mexicans than the Drug War? Diabetes.

by Alyshia Gálvez

Here’s why that should concern Americans in the wake of the negotiations over the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement.

50 Years After a Student Massacre, Mexico Reflects on Democracy

Mexico’s student movement erupted so suddenly in the summer of 1968 that it seemed to catch even its followers by surprise.

Mexicans Made America—Why Do We Treat Them Like Alien Invaders?

by John Tutino

If we knew the history of Mexico better, we wouldn’t.