From Tlatelolco to Ayotzinapa: October 2 March
October 5, 2015
Americas Program’s photojournalism report from Friday’s October 2nd March in Mexico City.
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Americas Program’s photojournalism report from Friday’s October 2nd March in Mexico City.
The traumatic events in Iguala and the inadequate, even corrupt, state response has provoked mourning and indignation. The attacks, assassinations, and disappearances of the Ayotzinapa students awakened the consciousness of Mexico, and
The Americas Program joined thousands this past Saturday, September 26 to march in solidarity with the families and peers of Ayotzinapa. Check out our photo series of the march.
We have strongly agreed with youth and families that this is a crime of the state. That has profound implications for Mexico, the citizenry and international relations. With the experts report confirming
To talk about the crisis of human rights in Guerrero, I talked with Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer with the Center for Human Rights of the Mountain “Tlachinollan,” in Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,
Why was the government in such a hurry to close the case by shunting the blame off to organized crime? Why insist on a “historic truth” that was not only untrue, but
For all their drawbacks, the reforms pay more than lip-service to the idea of promoting solar energy. They coerce newly approved corporate power generators into using the renewable sources directly derived from
Despite recurrent pronouncements of death by some U.S. and Mexican officials, high-profile organized crime groups continue operating and shedding blood south of the border. Tijuana, where control of both the local and
The report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) charged with investigating the assassinations of six people and the forced disappearance of 43 students of the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’
On the official front, a flurry of activity surrounding Nohemi’s death has unfolded in several nations.