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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMEXICO - shit's about to blow.
Here now w a cousin who is a professor of public policy and labor in the DF (mexico city). Update - the big door fire in Iguala was set by an infiltrator, Anonymous caught that this a.m., and the President of MX, it is reported today, lives in a mansion built & owned by one of his favorite no- bid contractors. More news soon, General strike on Nov. 20...
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Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)but K & R because it's you 
Logical
(22,457 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)43 students murdered in igualla on orders of the mayor
, gets worse from there...
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Reason 1,000,001 not to go to Mexico. Ever.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)is pretty immune to mainland shit. My brother still wants to retire down there.
eShirl
(18,495 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)
a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)A few protestors broke away from the main, peaceful march in Mexico City's historic district and set the doors to the Palacio Nacional on fire. It was the original palace of Hernan Cortes.
There have been protests all over the country. The U.S. media is slowly deciding to cover it.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The rate America is going, we will be the "New" Mexico.
mucifer
(23,555 posts)why can't mexican drug cartels buy US politicians? We don't get to know where the money comes from.
Really really scary stuff.
alfredo
(60,075 posts)is donate to the USCC, and they will put it in the general fund. It will find its way to their favorite drug warrior.
JEB
(4,748 posts)edit to add this link:
http://revolution-news.com/mexico-attorney-general-confirms-murder-43-missing-students/
and this one too:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/09/ya-me-canse-protests-boil-over-mexico-amid-word-student-massacre
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)be helping either country.
840high
(17,196 posts)
tiny elvis
(979 posts)and the very big protest that did not matter
and how everything has gone to hell since then?
and remember when the usa's presidential election was stolen
and the protests that did not matter and how
everything has gone to hell since then?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)or it's really good poetry.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)
mike dub
(541 posts)I watched a documentary tonight called "La Camioneta". In it, a bus driver coming south from the U.S. to Guatemala said "if you behave in the U.S., you don't get any trouble" and if you pay some of your salary (extortion) to the bandit "authorities" in Guatemala, you're fine ...... But inbetween (in Mexico) it's anything goes. Sounded pretty bad.
NBachers
(17,126 posts)I can't translate the code you're writing.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Mexican Authorities: Drug Traffickers Confess To Killing 43 Students
Mexican authorities says drug gang members have confessed to killing 43 students from a teachers college in the country's south and described a grisly disposal of the bodies — burning them on a pyre and then pulverizing teeth and bones to prevent the remains from being identified.
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The bizarre case allegedly began when the mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, ordered police to attack the students.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that authorities believe Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, "ordered local police to intercept and do away with the students, from a rural college for the poor, who were en route to Iguala and might have planned to disrupt a party and speech by Pineda."
The newspaper says: "The case soon revealed the deep infiltration by drug gangs of police and City Hall in Iguala, about 80 miles south of Mexico City, and in other municipalities in Guerrero state. The governor, Angel Aguirre, was forced to resign amid the scandal, which has also handed President Enrique Peña Nieto his worst security crisis in nearly two years of government."
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The kicker:
Seriously?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and protecting their masters and their newly elected monsters.
Killings have been going on for years but the missing 43 college students have spark much angry. From the president on down are extremely corrupt.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)May be south Americans travelling through on the way to US. Nobody knows yet.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Mayor gave order
Cops kidnapped bus of students, delivered them to narcos for torture, murder, disposal.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)They are part of Guerrero Unidos, pretty much a local gang.
And the mayor of Iguala and his wife, the alleged gang head, are members of the PRD, not the PRI.
Pena Nieto has captured or killed the leaders of all the major cartels. El Chapo ran free for years under the PAN, leading a lot of people to claim he had a favored relationship.
There is no doubt that drug-related corruption continues under the PRI, too. But in Mexico, it looks like everybody is in on the action.
The anger over Iguala does, however, tap in to broader concerns about corruption and, especially, impunity.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 10, 2014, 12:26 PM - Edit history (1)
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)
TBF
(32,071 posts)in the socialist group but the stories get hidden sometimes by all the labor cross-posts. I have a friend teaching down in Mexico and she gives us some excellent updates via Facebook even when the press here ignores it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10246389
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Who is the no-bid contractor for Mexicos Gov.? where is Anonymous posting the file dumps?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Pres cancelled the contracts last week and is in China now...
More to come when I can post of something other than my phone, our planes broken, waiting for another.
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