John Gibler
John Gibler is an American journalist and author who reports from and about Mexico. He wrote Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt and To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War. He also works as a correspondent for Pacifica Radio's KPFA in Mexico.
Gibler has covered major Mexican events, including the Zapatistas' Other Campaign, protests against electoral fraud in Mexico City, and the Oaxaca uprising. His writing has appeared in Left Turn, In These Times, Common Dreams, Yes! Magazine, ColorLines, and Democracy Now!. From 2006 to 2008 he was a Global Exchange Media Fellow.
He has reported from Oaxaca for the CBC and the Miami Herald's international edition. Early in his career he worked with human rights and social justice groups in Mexico, Peru, and California, focusing on environmental justice and water privatization. He has contributed to Public Citizen, Terrain Magazine, ColorLines, the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, and the Journal on Race, Poverty and the Environment.
Gibler earned an MSc from the London School of Economics (2000–2001) and has lived in Japan. In 2013 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Hampshire College, teaching Decolonial Thought in Latin America and Violence and Writing in Mexico's Drug War.
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