The Bridge of the Americas, known as the Cordoba Bridge or Free Bridge in borderland parlance, carries more than just commercial trucks and routine travelers between the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. Over the years the border crossing over the Rio Grande has also served as a bridge between social movements and political ideas with transcendence in Mexico, the United States and across the globe.
Encontrada ahorcada en un refugio para niños de Ciudad Juárez en marzo de 2014, Nohemi Alvarez Quillay se convirtió instantáneamente en causa de controversia internacional.
On the official front, a flurry of activity surrounding Nohemi’s death has unfolded in several nations.
Ante una corte llena , tres juezas femeninas encontraron a cinco hombres culpables y absolvieron al sexto por los delitos del tráfico y asesinato de 11 mujeres jóvenes que desaparecieron en la ciudad fronteriza de México en el 2009 y 2010.
In an action that gives the old Friday News Dump an extra twist, a Mexican court handed down a Saturday night verdict in a landmark and controversial case.
At the entrance to city hall in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, banners drape the fence and the shuttered gate. One message reads: “43 students still missing and something of us disappeared with them. Justice for Ayotizinapa.”
Months after the savage police attack that left six unarmed people dead and 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Mexico, the movement for justice shows no signs of letting up. Parents of the disappeared students and their classmates launched a whirlwind tour of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero this week to build support for their cause.
Abierto el pasado junio, el centro de detención familiar para migrantes centroamericanos del gobierno estadounidense, en Nuevo México, generó una gran controversia. Localizado en las instalaciones de capacitación de las Fuerzas Policiacas Federales en el pequeño pueblo de Artesia, el encierro, eufemísticamente llamado “centro residencial familiar” por la administración de Obama, atrajo protestas y vigilancia por parte de los simpatizantes de los niños y mujeres detenidos en el sitio.
Opened last June, the U.S. government’s family detention center for Central American migrants in New Mexico generated major controversy. Located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training facility in the small town of Artesia, the lock-up, euphemistically called a “family residential center” by the Obama administration, drew protests and vigils by supporters of the children and women detained at the site.
En semanas recientes, los reflectores mundiales se han enfocado en la tragedia de los refugiados centroamericanos en Estados Unidos. Se ha hablado poco de la migración forzada de poblaciones dentro de México, a causa de violencia similar a la que impulsa a los centroamericanos a migrar hacia el norte.
