20% of the indigenous population is illiterate, equivalent to 1.3 million people. The government is launching yet another program to tackle the conditions of poverty and marginalization behind the educational gap.
Statement from Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Center for Human Rights, United Families of Chiapas Committee, Searching for Our Missing Migrants “Junax Ko’ntantik,” Melel Xojobal A.C., Services and Advice for Peace, A.C. (SERAPAZ), Mesoamerican Voices, Action with Migrant Peoples, at the vigil held in solidarity with the disappeared and searching mothers in Mexico.
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Mexicans continue to arrive on flights to Chiapas under Trump’s new deportation policy.
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“…Listen… We know you are busy with Trump, but -I don’t know if you have noticed-, things are happening that would terrify the most grounded. They are not isolated or extraordinary events, they are frequent, daily, “common”, “normal”.”
Collectives of searchers should not exist. They exist because their loved ones were ripped away from them and they got no response from a complicit and absent State. They exist because there are 120,000 families devastated by the disappearance of one or more of their members. Because the federal, state and municipal governments in office only turn to look at them when a tragedy strikes. Today it was Teuchitlán, yesterday San Fernando and tomorrow who knows.
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