Alice Driver

Alice Driver is a freelance journalist and translator based in Mexico City whose work focuses on migration, human rights and gender equality.

Recent Stories

Media

Unprecedented wave of political violence rocks Mexico

The Takeaway

June 13, 2018

Updated

06/14/2018 - 10:45am

As Mexico prepares for elections, 113 political candidates and eight journalists have been murdered since the election process began last September. According to a recent report on political violence, 72 percent of the violence targeted opposition candidates.

Conflict

Assassins murdered Honduran activist Berta Cáceres. Her mother and daughters have taken up the fight.

GlobalPost

April 24, 2018

The 43-year-old Cáceres was killed in 2016 by gunmen who entered her home in La Esperanza, Honduras. She had fought against a dam project from Desarrollos Energéticos S.A., or DESA, that was to be built along the Gualcarque River, considered sacred to her indigenous Lenca people.

Culture

What it’s like to be trans when both language and laws refuse to recognize your identity

GlobalPost

April 06, 2018

Daniela Vega, like other members of the trans community in Latin America, has spent a lifetime navigating both the gendered Spanish language and laws that refuse to recognize her identity.