[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]: Chicago Answers the Call to Escalade Protests Following the Disappearance of 43 Normalistas in Guerrero

[José G. Herrera]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Action at Mexican Consulate

204 S. Ashland Ave

Today, October 27 @ 4PM

 

Chicago Answers the Call to Escalade Protests Following the Disappearance of 43 Normalistas in Guerrero

 

Chicago IL –Outraged members of the Immigrant community protesting the Mexican government’s crimes against the students from Ayotzinapa and the over 25,000 disappeared in the last decade.

 

The Mexican government has failed to produce alive the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa by the deadline set by their fellow students. Following the call to escalate protests, outraged members of the Chicago Mexican community protest at the Mexican Consulate, to hold the Mexican Government responsible for the disappearance of the students, as well as orchestrating a sham investigation to cover its crimes.

 

“They are using fabricated evidence, arbitrary detentions, searching homes and terrorizing the local population to pretend that they are looking for those responsible” said Jose Herrera, member of the MDC,  “My family in Iguala are living under a military occupation because those investigating the crime are actually the authors of the crime” he concluded.

 

Protesters are not only addressing the 43 disappeared normalistas, but also accusing the government for the more than 25,000 people disappeared over the last decade, including political prisoners Nestora Salgado and Dr Mireles, detained for their role in community self-defense, and Yaqui tribe representatives … who organize to oppose an aqueduct that dispossesses Yaqui people of ancestral waters.

 

“Vigils and solidarity events are not enough. We are taking our protests to the consulate because it is there that the problem lies” stated one of the participants. “We will make ourselves heard, because this space belongs to us”.

 

Organizers of the event released a statement to the Mexican Consulate “We do not come here to deliver a letter or to dialogue with the representatives of power. We don’t come asking for your justice or for your compassion. We come to put you on trial.”

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YoSoy132 Chicago

Moratorium On Deportations Campaign

Mexicanos Indignados

No Name Collective

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José G. Herrera

(773) 632-9992