AMAZING PROTEST IN MEXICO CITY ON 20th NOVEMBER.... I GOT NO SENSE OF THIS FROM THE US NEWS COVERAGE!!! Mexico: Revolution Day Protests End in Violent Police Repression; Protesters Charged with Terrorism (VIDEO) Día de la Revolución 2014 (Revolution Day) was a national holiday that Mexican citizens will not soon forget. People in more than 16 Mexican states protested on November 20th including Campeche, Chiapas, Morelos, Michoacán, Sonora, Veracruz, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Nayarit and Jalisco. Activists in Mexico tell us they estimate half a million people participated in peaceful protests on November 20 demanding justice for the 43 missing normalista students from Ayotzinapa. The largest protests in Mexico City ended in a very violent police repression and arbitrary arrests by granaderos and 11 protesters are now charged with terrorism THE HARD LINE RESPONSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT UNEXPECTED (BY ME AT LEAST....) BUT I DONT THINK IT WILL SERVE THE COUNTRY WELL. ...A BRITTLE & AUTHORITARIAN RESPONSE THAT COULD BRING AN ACCELERATED REACTION FROM THE WIDER POPULACE....WHICH JUST MIGHT BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!!! THESE TRAINEE TEACHERS WHO DISAPPEARED-- AND ARE PRESUMED DEAD-- WERE BEING TRAINED TO TEACH POOR CHILDREN....THEY WERE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND ENGAGED IN SOME OF THE WORK OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT....WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH THEIR POLITICS OR NOT......FORCIBLY DISAPPEARING THESE PEOPLE WILL NOT HELP ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT IN THE POOREST COMMUNITIES ACROSS MEXICO.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:56:42 +0000
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