Over the next month, three nations mired in political, economic and social discord will pause to co-host the world’s best soccer players and millions of their fans. Along the shared borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, people steeped in two cultures are looking beyond conflict to don the colors of their native or chosen homes – or maybe both.
Over the next month, three nations mired in political, economic and social discord will pause to co-host the world’s best soccer players and millions of their fans. Along the shared borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico, people steeped in two cultures are looking beyond conflict to don the colors of their native or chosen homes – or maybe both.
OPINION | Before corporate greed, political cynicism, and VIP areas, soccer world cups felt more personal. Will “fútbol” continue to belong to everyone?
Read MoreNearly 1,900 people vanished in and around Mexico’s second-largest city. Some clandestine graves lie near the soccer stadium.
In a webinar on journalist safety and preparedness featuring José Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas, moderated by palabra, recommendations were offered on how to safely cover the event.
Read MoreIn an exclusive interview with “palabra,” the acclaimed Mexican author discusses his new book, “The Game at the End of the World,” and analyzes the evolution of the rivalry with the U.S., the weight of migration on the pitch, and the consolation of a fanbase that, while knowing its team rarely wins, never stops cheering.
Read MoreNelson Molina collected 55,000 discarded objects and turned them into a one-of-a-kind gallery in East Harlem. After the pandemic forced it to close, the city has yet to decide its fate — and its creator fears everything will end where it began: forgotten.
Read MoreAs DACA Renewals Stall, Dreamers Find Support in Online Lifelines, and Face the Possibility of Unemployment, Detention, and Deportation.
Read MoreA Latino journalist explores a Japanese scene that could fit in Latin America; one in which workers find relief through headbanging, power chords, and an alter-ego.
Read MoreMusic transcends boundaries, and sometimes oceans. and in Japan, salsa, cumbia, and reggaeton have found a second home.
Read Morepalabra. spoke with the authors of a new book that examines the work of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio through the lens of activism
Read MoreBefore the lights of the “Aztec Stadium” flicker on for the FIFA World Cup, southern Mexico City undergoes a transformation, leaving many affected and dissatisfied.
Read MoreLilia Rubio went from washing dishes in Utah to working with international heads of state. Now, she tells her story.
Read MoreA gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and military generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — after hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him.
Read MoreLike in other metropolises, the presence of digital nomads in the Mexican state capital raises questions about capitalism and coexistence.
Read MoreTrapped in transit in a city that was never the destination but is now the only option.
Read MoreHow a progressive president became an unlikely partner in Trump’s hardline immigration policy.
Read MoreAs U.S. funding vanishes, families and forensic teams face an agonizing question: Who will help find the missing now?
Read MoreThe Mexican government has filed criminal charges against opponents of the Interoceanic Corridor. At least 61 people have open legal cases against them. “These are mechanisms of pressure,” argue activists and affected people.
Read MoreA Mexican government report predicts that industrializing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will devastate natural areas, turning them into polluted industrial zones with contaminated water, infertile land, polluted air, and widespread animal deaths.
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