As Comprehensive Immigration Reform’s fate is uncertain, it’s important to keep the memory of young victims alive.

As Comprehensive Immigration Reform’s fate is uncertain, it’s important to keep the memory of young victims alive.
Video, photos and interviews from the four-day March for Peace with Justice and Dignity featuring the voices of Javier Sicilia, Julian LeBaron, Raul Vera and others.
Mexico’s House of Deputies has brought the country to the cusp of a police state. The reform to the National Security Law now before the lower house would grant sweeping military powers to the executive and limit congressional oversight of domestic military activity. It would grant President Felipe Calderón the ability to effectively declare states of exception without congressional approval and unilaterally use the military against any group he deems to be a “threat to internal security.”
The United States’ long history of intervening in Haitian politics is alive and well: President Obama’s administration is attempting to derail the lawful return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide before Sunday’s controversial run-off elections.
In a startling and frank interview with La Jornada, General Villa Castillo, Torreon, Coahuila’s Director of Public Security, talked openly about his systematic use of brutal and extrajudicial drug war strategy.