![In much of Mexico it sometimes seems impossible to take a step without tripping over Coca-Cola advertisements or similar propaganda, writes Fernandez [Riccardo Lombardo/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/a2631559abb94953bf6706c1e67ca7fc_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll.
![President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attends a coronavirus response meeting in the Oval Office at the White House, on April 30, 2020 [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/02c96094045b4f9b95e27c4fe3d1ea7c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Trump putting his utterly unqualified son-in-law in charge of US’s response to the pandemic should not surprise anyone.
![Nuns participate in a procession to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 23, 2019 [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/04e6d582db164e97a600d1eb79c0f03b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Forty years after Archbishop Oscar Romero’s assassination, neoliberal violence is still wreaking havoc in El Salvador.
![A Syrian refugee hugs her children following their arrival on an overcrowded dinghy in rough sea on the Greek island of Lesbos, October 2, 2015 [Dimitris Michalakis/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/e028e29d751549f4a9538cf2e976cdfc_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The prevalence of psychological trauma among refugee youth should be an issue of utmost urgency for us all.
![A young member of Barrio-18 gang gestures as he holds a gun in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, September 28, 2018 [File: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ee179cb6714b4276b7d9e6084dd1f213_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Despite Donald Trump’s claims, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are everything but safe.
![Maria Meza, a migrant woman from Honduras, runs away from tear gas with her five-year-old twin daughters Saira and Cheili at the US-Mexico border on November 25, 2018 [File: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/16a247b20d24445182983ac12bc41b1b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The same forces that feed into the violence against migrant women are also undermining climate action.
![Abortion rights campaigners attend a rally against new restrictions on abortion passed in eight states, including Alabama and Georgia, in New York City, May 21, 2019 [File: Jeenah Moon/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ea97fb1a80954c0fa9d21677f2d3883d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Trump administration’s anti-abortion measures threaten the lives of women across the world, especially the poor.
![Demonstrators hold images of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during a protest over the company's facial recognition system at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle on October 31, 2018 [File: AP/Elaine Thompson]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/d80f78124781459b8a2177f932a08cfe_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The use of facial recognition in law enforcement takes us one step closer to our dystopian future.
![People gather on the banks for the River Seine near Notre-Dame Cathedral after a massive fire devastated large parts of the gothic structure in Paris, on April 16, 2019 [Reuters/Yves Herman]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/d41ffb5668d14a2a8a291a0a5f038eb3_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Why is it that a Catholic cathedral in flames provokes more public grieving than the mass suffering and death of humans?
![US Special Envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, speaks during a media availability at the State Department on February 7, 2019, in Washington [File: Alex Brandon/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2a59174aa4714a2fb445fb6675c45a2b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The US has chosen a prominent warmonger to promote ‘democracy’ in Venezuela.