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Trick Clock

Jan 6, 2025 | economichardship.org | Lillian Perlmutter

Trick Clock Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. It was in the first warm week of summer that the toilet stopped flushing. For two weeks in 2023, Jaime and the other eleven men sharing the one-bedroom cottage were forced to go next door to do their business, twenty-four men to one bathroom. The bosses took their time hiring a plumber.
Mexico uses AI-powered app to reduce suicides in Yucatán

Dec 12, 2024 | restofworld.org | Lillian Perlmutter

Last fall, school administrators at the University of Yucatán asked Abraham Slim, a 23-year-old medical student, to fill out a survey on his smartphone. The questions on the survey did not relate to his subjects but probed into his mental health. They asked if he had “started to work out the details of how to kill” himself the previous month, and if he “intended to carry out this plan,” among other queries.
Trick Clock | Lillian Perlmutter

Dec 5, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Lillian Perlmutter

It was in the first warm week of summer that the toilet stopped flushing. For two weeks in 2023, Jaime and the other eleven men sharing the one-bedroom cottage were forced to go next door to do their business, twenty-four men to one bathroom. The bosses took their time hiring a plumber. Jaime is from a small town in Western Mexico, but this incident occurred thousands of miles away from home, in Flemington, New Jersey.
Trump’s Election Victory Has Migrants Praying

Dec 2, 2024 | truthdig.com | Lillian Perlmutter

Oscar Ríos Mendoza is losing his faith in god, the only thing that has kept him going on the migrant trail since May. “I asked God five months before I left Nicaragua to support me on this journey, and God is the only reason nothing has happened to me, the reason I’ve always found a place to stay and I haven’t been kidnapped,” he said.
Democrats Are, in Fact, Cracking Down at the Border

Oct 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Lillian Perlmutter

10 hours agoColumn: Many could vote against Kamala Harris over the war in Gaza. Here’s why that’s a mistakeDoes anyone really believe that thwarting Vice President Kamala Harris’ quest for the presidency would be good for Palestinians? Sure, it might feel good for a moment to “punish” Harris for the Biden administration’s unqualified support of Israel.
Lillian Perlmutter

Sep 30, 2024 | substack.com | Lillian Perlmutter

Lillian PerlmutterJournalist, Mexico and the Caribbean
How Politicians Made the Border Even More Dangerous for Asylum-Seekers

Sep 28, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Lillian Perlmutter

JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow dust and gravel. He has a friend with him, Luis, also from Venezuela. They’re running south now, when their objective for weeks has always been to get as far north as possible.
Can AMLO Overhaul Mexico's Democracy in His Final Month?

Aug 29, 2024 | foreignpolicy.com | Lillian Perlmutter

Elections North America In June, Mexico’s ruling Morena party celebrated the most demonstrative political win in the country in more than 30 years. Morena’s Claudia Sheinbaum, the preferred successor of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, took nearly 60 percent of the vote, more than 30 percentage points ahead of her closest competitor.
Stuck in a State of Limbo

Aug 19, 2024 | truthdig.com | Lillian Perlmutter

On June 2, Carlos Javier made a critical error. It was the eve of what should have been the last day in a treacherous three-week journey from Venezuela to the United States, and he lost his nerve. Within view of the U.S.-Mexico border in Juárez, the stocky, 30-something migrant decided not to rush across the Rio Grande and its obstacle course of razor wire laid down by the Texas National Guard.
Kidnapping on the Migrant Trail

Jul 3, 2024 | truthdig.com | Lillian Perlmutter

In the past six months, kidnapping has become a common occurrence for migrants crossing through Mexico on their way to the United States. This is probably connected to the Mexican government’s crackdown on migrants traveling through the country without permission, an action encouraged by the Biden administration.