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Disconsolate Student

Tired Of This Already

November 20th 2014
In a world distracted by beheadings and Ebola, a surfeit of horrors, who can concern themselves with the disappearance of forty-three young men from a rural teachers’ college in Ayotizinapa, a small town in Mexico’s Guerrero province? Forty-three Mexican mothers, for starters. Fast-forwarding to the alleged conclusion, the nation’s Attorney General claims that the students were abducted by ... read more
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Mexican Flag The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more
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5th March 2015

Excellent account!
So many Mexicans feel like the student in this photo--so many years of protests and so little has changed. Your writing is moving and well presented. The US certainly has some responsibility in the hapless War on Drugs that takes so many lives on both sides of the border. How wonderful if this latest massacre of the innocents could lead to real change.

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