The Ford Foundation's Evolving Human Rights Approach to Latin America: The Mexican Window

Abstract

This report analyzes the Ford Foundation's evolving support for human rights in Mexico and Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. It focuses on the Foundation's funding of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights (AMDH), an organization that would become instrumental in Mexican public life, striving to create a common sense of human rights in the country. Using Ford Foundation records, as well as documentation produced by the AMDH that is kept in different Mexican archives, this report approaches the Ford Foundation's work in Latin America, its work in human rights, and the special place that Mexico occupied in this panorama. At the same time, it is a first approach to understanding the characteristics and work of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights