Pamela Cruz

Across the country, seven out of ten adults, two out of five of adolescents, and about 37 % of school-age children are obese or overweight. The extent of the problem is due to several factors -– not least low incomes.

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

In the Mexican city of Guadalajara streets are closed for non-motorised transportation to convert public roads into places for leisure and recreation for all people.

The Mexican diaspora is the second largest in the world. Few opportunities, poverty and increasing crime are prompting Mexicans to leave

A Mexican civil-society organisation provides households and schools with smoke-free and wood-saving stoves, protecting the health of users and the woods

Organised crime controls informal waste management in Mexico

What young Latin Americans must learn about sex and reproductive health

An agroecological community project in Mexico has empowered women and achieved a major mindset change of the residents towards them

In Mexico, online business trainings help female entrepreneurs to expand their businesses

Gang violence and the war on drugs costs many lives every day in Mexico and causes a lot of suffering