Carin Zissis
Host at Latin America in Focus Podcast
Editor-in-Chief, @ASCOA Online. 2024-25 Wilson Center Competition Fellow. Focus=🇲🇽🌎. Carin=🚗-in. Views own.
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2 months ago |
worldpoliticsreview.com | Carin Zissis
At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce. All told, the value of uncompensated domestic labor in Mexico amounts to more than 26 percent of GDP, outpacing both the manufacturing sector and trade, according to the country’s statistics agency. Yet roughly 20 million Mexican women are not employed because they are busy providing that unpaid labor.
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2 months ago |
as-coa.org | Carin Zissis
As Mexico faces tariff threats and stagnant growth, "closing the workforce gap represents an economic opportunity," writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis in WPR. At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce.
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2 months ago |
wilsoncenter.org | Carin Zissis |Bruna L. Santos |Michael Fitzpatrick
Q&A with Minister Manuel Tovar of Costa RicaQ. In recent years, Costa Rica has become the second-largest exporter of medical devices in Latin America. How did Costa Rica end up a hub for advanced manufacturing, including for computer chips? A. Costa Rica’s economic transformation has been remarkable, turning into a sophisticated global hub for advanced manufacturing and services.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
wilsoncenter.org | Carin Zissis
Professional Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, AS/COA Online, Americas Society/Council of the Americas Expert Bio Carin Zissis is Editor-in-Chief of AS/COA Online, the website of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Based in Mexico City from 2013 to 2021, she regularly publishes analysis and provides commentary on Mexican politics and elections, women’s equity and leadership, U.S.-Mexico ties, and other Latin American issues. She is the host of AS/COA’s Latin America in Focus podcast.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
newsecuritybeat.org | Carin Zissis
Elvia León, the youngest of seven children, wanted to leave Bomintzhá back in 1987. “I told my mother that I didn’t want to live in that kind of poverty, and she supported me.” Her father was less pleased with her plans to abandon their small community in Mexico’s Hidalgo state to study in the city of Querétaro. “The culture here is that women are meant to be at home, doing domestic chores.”This article, by Wilson Center Scholar, Carin Zissis, originally appeared on Americas Quarterly.
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Thanks to AP for inviting me to comment on Mexico's unprecedented June 1 judicial elections.
"We’ve never seen something like this before. What Mexico is doing is like an experiment, and we don’t know what the outcome of it will be," said AS/COA's @CarinZissis to @meganjanetsky of @AP about Mexico's June 1 judicial elections. Read: https://t.co/8oQEaeFNNv
3 new court decisions in MX, including a Supreme Court ruling finding it unconstitutional to differentiate between maternity and paternity leave, emphasize the importance of providing care. @melissaayala92 covers the decisions and their significance:
Buenos días por la mañana Poner la vida al centro es poner los cuidado al centro Mi columna en @El_Universal_Mx hoy es sobre eso y sobre cómo la @SCJN y los tribunales están poniendo en sentencias las demandas de quienes cuidan Por acá les cuento https://t.co/1xoIB1YW1D
Response from the new US ambassador to MX, who arrived in Mexico as recently as Thursday:
Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the @SEMAR_mx training ship Cuauhtémoc incident at the Brooklyn Bridge. We are monitoring closely and are in touch with the Government of Mexico via @SRE_mx to provide support as necessary. You have our full support.
