Para entender Ayotzinapa, es urgente cambiar el marco de análisis. Es necesario abandonar el falso discurso de la guerra contra las drogas, que habla de las fuerzas de seguridad dando la lucha contra las fuerzas del mal que trafican drogas prohibidas y “capturan” a elementos de un Estado débil o corruptible.
Following a week of accolades abroad, President Enrique Peña Nieto returned home to face the worst political crisis of his administration. Protests rage after local police forcibly disappeared 43 students of Ayotzinapa, a rural teaching college in the state of Guerrero. As investigations continue, the crisis has laid bare the violence and corruption that control large parts of the nation.
Acapulco looks like it’s in hurricane mode. But despite the government campaign to create fear among the local population, close to ten thousand people marched to demand the safe return of 43 education students, forcibly disappeared by local police on Sept. 26 in the nearby city of Iguala .
La marcha en la capital del país empezó en el Angel de la Independencia, donde los contingentes salieron a la calle y se encaminaron hacia el Zócalo. Fotos de los estudiantes desaparecidos, mensajes de solidaridad con Ayotzinapa y expresiones de indignación escritos a mano en cartulinas siguieron a las mantas tradicionales que identifican a los grupos.
The outrage will likely grow. It is all too predictable that at some point the disappeared will cross over into the column of the murdered and more families will lose the last ray of hope. One thing though is certain–Mexico is undergoing a shift of conscience.
Following the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Mexican indigenous leaders accused President Enrique Peña Nieto of portraying himself as a champion of indigenous rights in the international forum while violating them at home.
Mujeres indígenas que viajaron a Nueva York en el contexto de la Conferencia Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas (CMPI) de la ONU acusaron al presidente Enrique Peña Nieto de tener un “doble discurso” en materia de derechos indígenas en el país.
After three years of relative silence, the U.S. press has finally “discovered” the crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors piling up on the U.S. border. Although the coverage often began with moving stories of the hardships these young migrants faced, it soon turned ugly. For right-wing pundits and politicians, the “humanitarian crisis” has become a crackdown on kids.
La mayoría de los reportes periodísticos de los medios de comunicación masivos cuentan verdades a medias, al manipular la cuestión de qué o quién es el responsable.
There’s been a blitz of stories over the past couple of weeks on child migrants arriving on the U.S.’s southern border. It’s important that these children do not remain invisible. But most of these mainstream press stories are telling half-truths about child victims, while muddling or downright manipulating the question of who and what is responsible.
