Blog

2018:

• “How America is Exporting Gun Violence to Mexico,” In These Times, June 14, 2018
• “Mexico’s New Security Law Continues a Troubling Slide Toward Militarized Policing,” World Politics Review, Feb. 1, 2018

2017:

• “A Cyclical Crisis: Why Trump’s Crackdown on Central American Migrants Will Only Mean More Violence,” In These Times, Oct. 9, 2017
• “Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Drive Ousted One President. Can It Take Down Another?” World Politics Review, Sept. 7, 2017
• “Development Takes a Back Seat in Trump’s Central America Policy,” World Politics Review, June 27, 2017
• “Re-Arming the Drug War in Mexico and Central America,” co-authored with John Lindsay-Poland, NACLA, June 7, 2017
• “No One Talks About Life After Deportation; These Mexican Activists Are Changing That,” The Nation, April 28, 2017
• “Last Hope or Last Stop? Mexico’s Growing Migrant Crisis,” World Politics Review, Feb. 14, 2017

2016:

• Central American Migration (radio), Latino Media Collective, Sept. 23, 2016
• “Central American Refugees Struggle For Protection In Southern Mexico,” Lobelog (co-published with Foreign Policy in Focus and NACLA), Sept. 16, 2016
• “Drugs Don’t Warrant a Bullet or a Disappearance,” NACLA, Apr. 26, 2016
• “Secure Borders Now, Protect People Later,” NACLA, Feb. 19, 2016

2015:

• “Mexico Failing to Meet U.S. Foreign Aid Conditions,” Security Assistance Monitor blog, July 16, 2015
• “US Military Aid Supports Anti-Haitian Deportations in the Dominican Republic,” TruthOut, June 25, 2015
• “Mexico’s Federal Police Don’t Have Public Standards on When to Shoot People,” Security Assistance Monitor blog, June 5, 2015
• “How U.S. Aid can Help a Post-Peace Accord Colombia,” Security Assistance Monitor blog, May 22, 2015