Radio Bilingüe will be live broadcasting on January 27th at a public forum discussion on Mexico’s ongoing violence and human rights crisis.
San Francisco and the Mission have been witness to recent protests denouncing the violence against students in Ayotzinapa and other parts of Mexico. It is also a city that fosters a big Mexican undocumented population, often fleeing violence and seeking asylum in the Bay Area and other parts of the U.S. From Radio Bilingüe’s press release:
Some 100,000 people have been murdered and more than 25,000 disappeared since 2006. According to human rights watchdogs, Mexico is facing the worst human rights crisis since 1968. The recent disappearance of 43 rural students at the hands of Mexican police has detonated months of unprecedented and massive protests in and out of Mexico.
The San Francisco Bay Area has been the scene of many such rallies in protest of the disappearance of rural students in Guerrero, the detention of self-defense militia leaders in Michoacán, extrajudicial executions in Chihuahua, and in support of the thousands of unaccompanied minors and families fleeing violence and seeking asylum in the U.S.
Washington is not disassociated from Mexico’s violence. Through its Merida Initiative, the U.S. has provided billions to Mexico’s “war on drugs,” much funding security forces that Mexican citizens associate with abuse and narco corruption. Is U.S. policy contributing to the crisis of human rights in Mexico?
The discussion will be held at the Mission Cultural Center with Mexican poet and writer Homero Aridjis and a group of US intellectuals known as ‘Los Macarturos’, for being recipients of the MacArthur fellowship given to individuals with exceptional creativity.
People are invited to attend the forum and share their views.
The open forum will take place on Tuesday, January 27 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street in San Francisco.
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