a little more background by the same author, dated Oct 11.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/11/in-mexico-mass-kidnapping-and-slaying-of-students-in-iguala-brings-outrage-and-protests-against-gangs-and-government/
and, photos from an article dated October 16 here:
http://mic.com/articles/101594/powerful-photos-capture-the-student-protests-barely-anyone-is-talking-about
Wow!
Mexicans are willing to fight their country rather than just head nort!
Great dignity.
We should help them take their nation back.
Far,far,far cheaper than allowing them to flee here.
I am not surprised at the anger, for the massacre of the students was a real atrocity.
Pena Nieto showed some promise early on but is now clearly revealed as a corrupt PRI hack just like all the others.
Something i’d probably cheer right here if folks started burning down gub mint crap.
kinda like it here; all D'Rats Gov't. have been obliviously corrupt.
L"shoot'em"J/Jimmah Malasie's/Bubba's & "Bathhouse's", it's they're corrupt nature.
When Ebola hits Mexico, it will spread like wildfire and the demand to close the border will be overwhelming, but probably too late. Let’s hope that a vaccine is found before it’s too late.
Forget ISIS, we may need to move into Mexico. It’s a matter of when, not if.
A few things to know about Guerrero, and why it is in smoldering revolt.
In the southwest of Mexico, it is home to the resorts of Acapulco and others, the playground of the idle rich from the US and Europe. But outside of the fences surrounding the resorts of the wealthy, Guerrero is afflicted with grinding poverty. So much so that it is the Mexican state that sends more of its citizens to the US than any other.
So while Paris, Tiffini and Porche are sipping $25 Margaritas and eating lobster and cracked crab on one side of the fence, Mexicans are literally starving on the other side.
This causes a bit of resentment for some reason.
Because they are the big source of money, the local, state and national government support the tourists, not the Mexicans, and when the latter object too loudly, they come down on them like a ton of bricks. There is no respect for starving peons.
I have no idea why the local government decided to murder a bunch of students. But I am not terribly surprised.
This story baffles me, I mean I do believe it but to merely shoot protesting students? Six seemed to be killed at the protest and the others abducted and presumably have been killed.
But in this town, they find some mass graves, that’s about 6 mass graves, that’s the bad news, the good news is that the student remains have not been found in any of the mass graves. Crazy.
Oh, and a week or so before in Guerrero, an opposition politician was killed, the man was of the PAN party (the “Conservative” party) but didn’t look to me to be like a high-level politician.
The only thing I can figure out is that maybe one would shoot the students if somehow they are connected to a rival cartel but I haven’t seen evidence of that.
Some of this kind of stuff has probably happened in Mexico always the thing is is that now it is rampant.
And lastly, they call the students part of a left-wing party, I think the accused Mayor may also actually belong to what is a left-wing organization as well.
Photo #9, October 8th actually shows protests over this went on in Germany, how big, no idea: http://voxxi.com/2014/10/17/search-missing-college-students-mexico/playlist/march-justice-mexico/item/320571
From a Honduras newspaper, lots of photos.: http://www.laprensa.hn/sucesos/756183-410/masivas-protestas-en-m%C3%A9xico-por-estudiantes-desaparecidos?utm_source=laprensa.hn&utm_medium=Direct&utm_campaign=desktop_modulo_enportada
Wondered why the streets were empty on Monday in Los Angeles.