Could Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Be Mexicos Jeremy Corbyn?
SEP
2017
Saturday 9TH
BEN CHACKO hears Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador outline his left-wing Morena party’s plans to transform his country
MEXICO is not a safe place to be a trade unionist. Workers labour under restrictive “protection contracts” and attempts to organise unions independent of the bosses can result in beatings, arrests or worse.
It’s not a safe place to be a journalist either: nine have been killed so far this year alone. Human rights activists and social justice campaigners are frequent victims of lethal violence.
The sheer scale of this violence is often ignored. Last month Jan Jarab, representative of the United Nations’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico, reported that an astonishing 30,942 people had disappeared in the country in the past nine years.
Investigators uncovering a steadily mounting number of clandestine graves in the country believe that figure is a massive underestimate, reckoning over 100,000 people have vanished in a decade.
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