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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.
Mexico: Community Police Leader Nestora Salgado Released from Prison via Democracy Now! via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT05rFOGrAo
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.
