LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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March 5, 2024

How Much Is Civil Society Brokering Peace in Mexico?

The Roman Catholic bishop of the Chilpancingo-Chilapa diocese in Mexico, whose cathedral is pictured, said he and other clergy met with drug cartel leaders in an effort to negotiate peace. // File Photo: Ibiza1808 via Creative Commons.

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Stephanie Brewer, director for Mexico at the Washington Office for Latin America: “Civil society has a crucial role to play in any country, and the population needs to be able to exercise its rights to organize, defend human rights and seek improvements in its communities. However, civil society actors shouldn’t be expected to substitute for the state, especially when it places them at risk. In Mexico, President López Obrador seeks to delegitimize and undermine trust in broad sectors of civil society, often dismissing their information and advocacy. Yet at the same time, many people are organizing across the country because they seek to defend their human rights in a context of violence. One example is…”

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