Across Mexico, where gentrification has pushed housing prices up by 247% from 2005 to 2021, locals are angry over their forced displacement and lack of housing rights. They recently protested against mass tourism and “digital nomads.”
Author: Catalina Ruiz-Navarro
Catalina Ruiz-Navarro is a Colombian journalist and is and feminist activist whose work has notably been published in Colombian daily El Espectador.
A Spanish court has quashed a rape conviction against a Barcelona soccer star, describing it as based, technically speaking, on evidence that was not compelling. This can only further discourage women already daunted by having to take an aggressor to court.
Colombian superstar Shakira performed in a rare concert in her hometown, timed with its world-famous carnival. The connection with locals comes not just from her stardom but the singer’s humble way of enjoying the city like any local mom with her kids
Feminists want male allies in the fight to advance women’s rights. Yet many men who claim to be allies have shown that they do it for the wrong reasons.
Trafficking people, especially for sex, between Colombia and Mexico is rife and rising, buoyed in part by pervasive social and media contempt for the working-class girls who are among the chief victims.
Colombia’s second-largest city has imposed a six-month ban on all prostitution in a bid to tackle the sexual exploitation of minors. But it only shows the government’s ignorance of — and possibly even indifference to — one of the city’s most shameful trades.
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation suit has become a Hollywood media (sh*t) storm, but there are troubling real consequences in the way domestic violence is being portrayed, when the victim is less-than-perfect.