Mexico: Journalist Andrea Noel Sexually Attacked, Then Cyber-Harrassed
Mexico: Community Police Leader Nestora Salgado Released from Prison via Democracy Now! via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT05rFOGrAo
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An indigenous Mexican-American woman who has become the face of armed community self-defense efforts in the Mexican state of Guerrero was released from prison on Friday, after being held for two-and-a-half years on charges that were ultimately ruled baseless. Nestora Salgado co-founded and led a community police force to combat increasing violence in her hometown of Olinalá, Guerrero.
Julio Cú might have the dirtiest job in Mexico City. And he’s found wild things beneath the city’s surface. http://share.ajplus.net/shared/15083
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Pope Francis concludes his six-day trip to Mexico today with a visit to a prison and a public mass in Ciudad Juarez. During his tour as the first Latin American pope, he gave mass in the southern and northern tips before indigenous people, victims of violence, migrants, and tens of thousands of ordinary citizens. His visit comes as Mexico is years-deep into militarized drug war violence that has killed an estimated 100 thousand people and left the whereabouts of at least 20 thousand others unknown.
Pope Francis took aim at drug cartels and Mexico’s corrupt elite during a visit to one of the cities most impacted by the U.S.-backed drug war. North of Mexico City, Ecatepec has one of the highest murder rates in Mexico and is particularly known for the unsolved murders of scores of women (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJDckock9c)
