Hundreds of wars and armed conflicts take place every day, in different parts of the global geography, both to maintain the status and modus vivendi of the great urban centres of the West and to exterminate populations that are dispensable for the economic dynamics of modern capitalism. And yet, the drama that is constructed as…
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Mexican Police rescue 107 Central American migrants near “The Wall”
During various operations, 107 Central American migrants were rescued in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, state authorities reported. According to a preliminary report from the National Migration Institute, there are 51 Guatemalans, 9 from El Salvador and 47 from Honduras. Of these 107 people, 72 were released by Tamaulipas authorities and the rest by federal institutions. The first operation,…
With Argentina’s help, Mexico starts a search for the disappeared
The Mexican government has just assumed something that thousands of Mexicans have known and suffered for a long time: their territory became “a huge clandestine grave. This is how crude the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador recognized it this week when it launched a program to search for and identify the 40,000 disappeared who…
¿Qué aprendimos de Ayotz1napa? A un año de los acontecimientos, sólo cabe la reflexión
El pasado 26 de septiembre de 2015 se cumplió el primer aniversario de la desaparición forzada de los 43 estudiantes de la Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos quienes fueron privados de su libertad en circunstancias que hasta el día de hoy siguen siendo obscuras y desconcertantes. No obstante, sin demeritar el peso de los acontecimientos,…
Ayotzinapa 2014: El Estado mexicano en la rearticulación del capitalismo
“The peoples must be prepared to win their liberation themselves for nobody else would do it for them […] they must do so by direct action.” Eric Hobsbawm[1] En los últimos meses, a raíz de los eventos ocurridos en torno al 2 de octubre de 2014 donde en un pleno ejercicio de la violencia de…
