Zihuatanejo and the case of Luis Quintana and Ilse Ramirez stand as another important test of the rule of the law, respect for human rights and the prospects for democratic change in Mexico.
“El triunfo de Trump multiplicará el recrudecimiento de la actitud social contra las y los migrantes a través de la discriminación, xenofobia, odio y fascismo”, alerta Marta Sánchez Soler, presidenta del Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano.
México es sin duda el país más afectado del mundo con el triunfo del republicano Donald Trump en las elecciones para la presidencia de Estados Unidos.
Existen aún muchas incógnitas en la política exterior de Donald Trump. Sin embargo, queda claro que también para el resto del continente, la presidencia de Trump nos pone frente a un desafío de enormes proporciones.
The group of migrants has decided to walk across the city’s characteristic bridge to call for “fewer walls, more bridges.” Among them are mothers and children who had not seen each other in more than 20 years, and grandparents who had never met their grandchildren who grew up in this huge city far away from the villages their parents were born in.
On Oct. 9, 200 activists marched along a dusty highway between Nogales and Tucson toward a Border Patrol checkpoint just north of Tubac, Arizona. At the front, activists prepared to risk arrest clutched painted crosses in their hands, each bearing the name of someone killed by US-trained assassins or the militarized US-Mexico border.
It’s anybody’s guess how many victims of violence are still buried somewhere in the Juarez Valley on the Mexico-U.S. border. For starters, there is the still largely unexcavated Navajo Arroyo, where the remains of 18 young women who went missing from nearby Ciudad Juarez have been recovered and identified since late 2011, according to the local daily Norte.
Silent traumas grip a growing number of families in Mexico. Not knowing where a loved one is, relatives comb jails, hospitals, morgues and common graves. Digging into the earth, their shovels probe for bodies or remains–fragments of a human being who once warmed their lives.
The marchers have turned out by the thousands to tell the government of Enrique Peña Nieto that the forced disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Teachers College on September 26, 2014 continues to be a rallying cry for a people who are fed up with the violence and lack of justice in the county.
It has been two years to the day since the crime of Ayotzinapa. A moment of soul-searching for Mexico.
