Maurizio Guerrero
Maurizio Guerrero is an award-winning journalist who for 10 years was the bureau chief in New York City and the United Nations of the largest news-wire service in Latin America, the Mexican-based Notimex. He now covers immigration, social justice movements and multilateral negotiations for several media outlets in the United States, Europe and Mexico. A graduate journalist of the Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién in Mexico City, he holds an M.A. in Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies from the City University of New York (CUNY).
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 9, 2023
Although nobody knows exactly what a feminist foreign policy should look like, numerous countries continue to adopt the banner ever since it originated in Sweden, in 2014, when Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister at the time, announced the pioneering…
- Categories: Cities, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • January 2, 2023
At least a dozen United Nations member states, along with Latin American and Caribbean countries, oppose a plan by a global body to issue the first-ever license to a nation to explore minerals in the deep seabed in 2023….
- Categories: Climate Change, Latin America
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 20, 2022
On the first day of the “high-level” week of the United Nations General Assembly, attracting approximately 150 world leaders in person to the world body for the first time since 2019, Secretary-General António Guterres, facing criticism for acting too…
- Categories: Africa, Climate Change, Development, General Assembly, Latin America
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 4, 2022
Xiomara Castro, Honduras’s first woman president, is brandishing an ambitious agenda whose top priorities include reforming the Constitution and elevating women’s rights. Yet the success of Castro, a 62-year-old former first lady, depends heavily on how well she manages…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Latin America, Migration, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • December 14, 2021
Ten unarmed United Nations peacekeepers traveling in a clearly identified UN minibus were wounded on Nov. 1 by gunshots fired at them by presidential palace guards in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. Two of the peacekeepers…
- Categories: Africa, UN Peacekeeping
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • November 16, 2021
Celia Umenza, an Indigenous leader who has survived three attacks on her life while advocating for the self-determination of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant communities in the northern Cauca region of Colombia, recently told the United Nations Security Council that…
- Categories: Latin America, Women as Changemakers
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • November 9, 2021
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as Amlo for his initials, called on the United Nations to “wake up from its slumber” and support the creation of a mechanism to end poverty for 750 million people worldwide. In…
- Categories: General Assembly, Latin America, Poverty, Secretary-General, Security Council
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • October 21, 2021
As abuses against Sahrawi activists and journalists mount in Western Sahara, 10 United States Republican and Democratic senators are urging the Biden administration to include a human-rights element in the work of the United Nations referendum mission in the…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • September 22, 2021
The second day of world leaders’ speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly continued on Sept. 22, after the heavily reported appearance of United States President Joe Biden at the fabled rostrum in the Assembly Hall; a last-minute…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, General Assembly, Human Rights, UNGA76, US-UN Relations
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • August 25, 2021
When Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras recently removed the anticorruption leader Juan Francisco Sandoval from his post as the special prosecutor against impunity, her action ended the last semblance of prosecutorial independence generated by one of the most successful…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Latin America, Migration, Secretary-General, US-UN Relations
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • July 27, 2021
Back in June 2019, the World Meteorological Organization embarked on an ambitious effort to streamline its internal operations, cut expenses by two percent and realign the organization with “21st-century realities, priorities and dynamics.” The timing was right. A United…
- Categories: Climate Change, UN Agencies
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • June 3, 2021
Almost a year ago, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization released a statement characterizing as “abhorrent” a video in which a man and a woman appeared to be having sex in the back seat of a four-wheel drive vehicle…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Peacekeeping
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • May 27, 2021
The proposed selection of Rebeca Grynspan, a Costa Rican economist and former vice president of her country, to head the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was made without consulting the core of the agency — the Group…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • April 15, 2021
Six Latin American names are being circulated in regional political circles as possible candidates to become the first woman to lead the United Nations, while the current secretary-general, António Guterres, will most likely be re-elected for the upcoming five-year term,…
- Categories: Latin America, Secretary-General, Women
- Maurizio Guerrero
- • March 30, 2021
Inger Andersen, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, has been working from Copenhagen since March 2020 — away from the agency’s headquarters in Nairobi for a year. The Gigiri Complex, which houses the UN offices in Kenya’s…
- Categories: Africa, UN Agencies
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