Madeleine Wattenbarger

Madeleine Wattenbarger is a journalist based in Mexico City, where she covers social movements and human rights.

Unstable Coalitions

January 15, 2026

In Mexico, a coalition has formed across ideological divides to counter the party in power.

Madeleine Wattenbarger

September 25, 2024

The far right comes to Mexico.

Madeleine Wattenbarger

June 13, 2024

Mexico’s political class seems uniformly behind the drive to incarcerate.

Madeleine Wattenbarger

October 5, 2020

On violence and press repression in Mexico.

Madeleine Wattenbarger

January 9, 2020

How the elite university launders McKinsey's reputation

Madeleine Wattenbarger

February 20, 2019

Searching with the family members of Mexico's thousands of disappeared in Guerrero.

Madeleine Wattenbarger

December 19, 2018

If the Zero Waste movement wants to move beyond green environmentalism, it has to get off Instagram and into the world.