The story of some citizens of Ciudad Juarez speaking up against the violence and of the reactions of other Juarences.
MEXICO: Fasting for Life in Land of Death - IPS ipsnews.net: "last weekend, dozens of demonstrators from different social organisations occupied the area around the monument to progressive reformer Benito Juárez (1858-1972), the country's first president of Indian descent, who gave his name to this border city.
In their overnight protest demanding a change in public security strategies, the activists marked both the Jan. 30 assassination of India's Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and the first anniversary of the Jan. 31, 2010 shooting of 15 youths, mainly high school students, at a birthday party in Villas de Salvárcar, a working-class neighbourhood on the southeast side of the city."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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