Protests rage over missing students in Mexico ahead of national strike

[cbayer]

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/17/mexico-strike-protest.html

Strike and massive marches called for Nov. 20 in capital and abroad demanding end to government corruption

November 17, 2014 9:11AM ET
by Renee Lewis

Protests over the disappearance of 43 missing students raged across Mexico and the United States over the weekend. Activists blamed a government they say has ties to organized crime and called for people in Mexico and the U.S. to support a Mexico-wide strike on Thursday.

Coinciding with the Nov. 20 strike, protest marches will be held in Mexico City, as well as dozens of cities across the U.S. including New York City and Los Angeles.

“We want to warn that these acts of protest will not be silenced while the civil and human rights of our Mexican brothers continue to be violated and trampled on by a government that has colluded with organized crime and to those who blamed the crimes committed by the state on [cartels] — thereby evading their own responsibility in the state sponsored genocide that has been committed with total impunity,” #YoSoy123NY, the New York chapter of a Mexican social movement that opposes Mexico’s current government, said in a statement handed out at a protest in New York City on Sunday.

“Alive they were taken. Alive we want them back,” protesters said as they marched in Union Square.

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[LeftInTX]

1. Kick

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. The mayor of Iguala and his wife are not members of the ruling party.

They are PRD members. The leftist party.

I guess that just shows that corruption in Mexico is not the monopoly of the PRI.

[cbayer]

3. When there is this degree of corruption, party affiliation seems to matter very little.

His wifes connection with cartels is probably much more important than which party he is attached to, and that makes them part of the ruling party.

At any rate, the party is distancing themselves from him.