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​Mexico: Guerrero has become a powder keg about to explode

16/10/2014

20 days after the massacre of the normalistas (students studying to be teachers) from Ayotzipana, Mexico and the disappearance of 43 of them, the indignation of the people in the country has grown, as has the disapproval of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who a few months ago was hailed by Time magazine and the international financial institutions for achieving the “Mexican miracle”, i.e. the privatization of Pemex.

Guerrero has become a powder keg about to explode

After the assassinations of these students, the rejection of the president’s demagogic and meaningless declarations has grown, as has the general perception that Peña Nieto is protecting the repressive government of Aguirre Rivero in Guerrero.

The rhetoric of the government sounds familiar to that of the “old” PRI of the 1970s. Years of authoritarianism and brutality against the youth such as that which occurred in Tlatelolco in 1968, the Halconazo in 1971 and the dirty war of the 1970s and ‘80s.

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México: Political crisis in Mexico after the Iguala massacre

15/10/2014

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Political crisis in Mexico after the Iguala massacre

The execution of 22 alleged criminals in Tlataya, Mexico State, at the hands of the army last June and the massacre of student teachers in Iguala, Guerrero, have opened up an institutional crisis in Mexico. This, in a context of the rise of the impunity with which the groups of drug traffickers and hired killers, that fill the streets with corpses, are acting, where the ungovernable nature is obvious.

The open institutional crisis is a result of state violence, the complicity of civil servants with organized crime, the complicit friendship of President Peña Nieto (PRI) with the repressive PRD Governor of Guerrero (Ángel Aguirre Rivero, formerly of the PRI), and Aguirre Rivero’s inexplicable support for the Mayor of Iguala, pointed out as a murderer of opponents of his administration and as responsible for the massacre and disappearance of the student teachers from Ayotzinapan.

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