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,…
Natalia Lafourcade: “I voted for AMLO with the hope of change, but we have to do it all together (interview)”.
Natalia Lafourcade wasn’t supposed to be here. She had made important plans. She thought she would be quietly at home in Mexico City with her father and sister, who has come to visit her from Chile. “I started a moment, space, to spend time with my family, at home, to reconnect with me, to compose…
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…