The murder of young Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta has freshly poured salt into the wound that is Ayotzinapa. “For those who remember that expression “let’s not wake up the bronco Mexico,” it seems that the crime of March 7 has already awakened the rebellious and combative normalismo that, without a doubt, will be reactivated beyond Ayotzinapa. The commitment that the investigations will be continued by the next government remains. It will be obligatory.”
Magdalena Gómez, a scholar of indigenous rights and the San Andrés Accords analyzes the simulation of the recent Indigenous Proposal for Constitutional Reform, under the current administration.
Despite President López Obrador’s claims of economic progress during his six-year term of office, which he attributes to his megaprojects such as the Mayan Train, Mexico remains among the poorest countries of Latin America according to a recent report by ECLAC.
In his ongoing love affair with the Armed Forces and the progressive militarization of the Mexican state, AMLO decorates General Salvador Cienfuegos, accused by the DEA of involvement in drug trafficking.
Approximately 3,000 residents of the community of Nueva Palestina, municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas, marched yesterday to demand the presence of security forces because members of organized crime, who are disputing the territory, are trying to charge small businesses with “derecho de piso” (extortion to continue operating).
