This Tuesday, President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto began a series of meetings in Washington DC. Trade was naturally high on the list of topics to be discussed; Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country than Canada – more than $500 billion a year. Immigration was another obvious topic; an estimated 6 […]
A reconstruction of the events surrounding the disappearances of the 43 Mexican students has highlighted the mistakes authorities commit. Sadly, we may never get to the bottom of what really happened. By Manuella Libardi. Published 9-26-2017 by openDemocracy The third anniversary of the the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College students (known as normalistas) in […]
By Nick Bernabe. Published 1-10-2017 by The Anti-Media San Diego, CA — Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing neoliberal reforms to the country’s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation. The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on the situation in Mexico, even […]
On Sunday, parents of the Ayotzinapa students, missing for 10 months, led hundreds through the streets of Mexico City to call for justice By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published July 27, 2015 The search for 43 college students who vanished in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero 10 months ago has turned […]
On September 26, 43 students disappeared in the city of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico after being loaded into police vans. This marked the beginning of massive protests that have spread across the country. We wrote about the students’ disappearance and the protests a month ago; since then, the situation’s become even more edgy. On Tuesday, November 4, Iguala Mayor […]
While we at Occupy World Writes recognize that our media has pretty much given up on reporting the news, sometimes we’re still surprised by their lack of coverage of vital stories happening around the world. Instead of providing us with an unbiased accounting of current events, they focus instead on the sensational. Our news broadcasts […]