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Andalusia K. Soloff 📷🚴🏼♀️🎥 Esp/Eng Multimedia Journo/ Emmy Nominated Filmmaker en México. Founder @FrFreelanceMex andalusia.k.s@gmail
CDMX/ Mexico City
Joined September 2008
Este viernes voy a rodar desde la Ciudad de México hasta Acapulco- un día, 400 km, 5000 metros de subida y temperaturas de 40 grados. Necesito todas las porras y música inspiradora posible. Me regalan links a playlist y canción en este hilo por favor!
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A 16 year old boy, Alexander Martinez, was murdered by municipal police in Oaxaca, Mexico. This is how his soccer teammates bid farewell to him. #JusticiaParaAlexander.
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La niña Ayelin desapareció en Tixtla, Guerrero hace cuatro días. Tenía 13 años. Hoy la encontraron muerta y desmembrada en una barranca, cerca a su casa. ¿Por qué no vemos hashtags ni títulos sobre su cruel feminicidio? Yo exijo #JusticiaParaAyelin
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Apparently students being disappeared and dissolved in acid in Mexico is so normal that the fact that Jalisco government has declared this was the fate of Javier, Marco & Daniel has barely made international headlines and caused little stir in national ones #NoSomosTresSomosTodxs
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Hoy @IsobelYeung y yo preguntamos al presidente @lopezobrador_ sobre feminicidios en México, el asesinato de 5 mujeres en Nicolás Romero y los recortes al presupuesto de la alerta de genero. Nos respondió que en México se respeta los derechos humanos.
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The Mexican Government erected an enormous wall in front of its national palace to prevent feminists from protesting on International Women’s Day. Within one day the wall was painted with the names of 1000’s of women who have been victims of gender motivated murder in Mexico.
#AlMomento Mujeres pintan nombres de víctimas de feminicdio sobre las vallas que se colocaron protegiendo Palacio Nacional. #PresidenteRompaElPacto #PalacioNacional #8M2021
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In Mexico City, anarchists took to the streets to protest police brutality and this happened.
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Twenty five chefs came together to prepare Christmas paella 🥘 for the migrant exodus in Tijuana. 1600 pounds of meat, 800 pounds of rice, 400 pounds of olive oil, and a whole lot of love and solidarity.
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Georgina vendía quesadillas a las mujeres trabajadoras en la fábrica #Chimalpopoca. Pasó 3 días buscándolas en el derrumbe y sigue aquí.
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Earthquake in Mexico City- still occurring - not sure where epicenter is nor if there is any real damage
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Mexico is not Europe, in Mexico if you don’t work you don’t eat, reads sign in entrance to the Coyoacán market. The government has ordered everyone to stay home to prevent #COVID19, but 60 million people work in informal economy and have no income if they don’t work. 📷by me.
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Thousands of women in the main plaza of Mexico City joined an international call to perform "A rapist in your path" created by Las Tesis in protest of soldiers who raped protestors in Chile and the patriarchy in general. Similar actions took place in Bolivia, Colombia & Spain.
La intervención #UnVioladorEnTuCamino coreado por miles de mexicanas en el zócalo de Ciudad de México #LasTesis
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Disenchanted by the political system, activists, artists, ordinary citizens and even journalists voted for the 100,000+ disappeared people in Mexico by writing their names on the ballots. This ballot is by the artist Grabiel Gráfica.
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An unknown # of garment workers died in this factory in Mexico's 7.1 earthquake. Those who are invisible in life are also invisible in death
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The mothers, sisters and friends of victims of gender violence in Mexico have taken over the National Commission of Human Rights saying they have done nothing to resolve women's kidnappings, murders, abuses and disappearances. Powerful photos by Mexican Photographer @Usagii_ko
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Just imagine being a young woman and going to protest the brutal murder of a young woman just like yourself, and having the police open fire on you. This happened today in Cancún, Mexico. Photos via Natalia Pescador ig: nat0matic #JusticiaParaAlexis
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El juez declara Jorge Luis, el ex novio de #Lesvy Berlin Rivera Osorio, CULPABLE DE FEMINICIDIO #JuicioLesvy Hoy es un día historico para las familias que buscan justicia para sus hijas asesinadas y desaparecidas.
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Here’s today’s edition of Mexican feminists are badass. This is a wall the government erected to keep them away from the National Palace m. They asked why does the government protect their property and monuments more than the lives of women, of whom 10 are killed everyday.
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The collapse of Mexico City's metro that took 23 lives is infuriating. This subway line(12) was inaugurated in 2012 to provide service to 1/2 million working class people. It closed 2014-2015 for structural problems & in 2017 was damaged in earthquake but unclear if was repaired.
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Mujeres en Tixtla protestaron hoy en la plaza del pueblo, exigiendo #JusticiaParaAyelin y quejando sobre la complicidad e ineptitud de la fiscalía y el gobierno municipal y estatal. Preguntan que si tienen que quemar todo para que les hagan caso.
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My heads still spinning from 7.1 earthquake felt across Mexico - epicenter in Oaxaca. One of our main fears during earthquakes in Mexico City are the power lines exploding - fortunately these didn’t fall down but they surely looked like they might.
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While y’all are talking about Supreme Court and future of #abortion rights in U.S. don’t forget to look south where Mexican women are putting their lives on the line, demanding that abortion be legalized. It is prohibited in most of Mexico and most of Latin America.📷 @Usagii_ko
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Magdalena fue a recoger sus hijos a la casa de su ex esposo en Taxco, Guerrero. La desaparece y una semana después la encuentran desmembrada en una olla. ¿Estamos tan acostumbrados a esta violencia feminicida que ni un hashtag merece ella?
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Feminist takeovers of State Human Rights Headquarters are spreading all over México. This is what's occurring in Puebla this morning.
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The town of Cherán in Michoacán, Mexico kicked out corrupt politicians and now has their own autonomous government based in indigenous purépecha principales. Today the new community council is inaugurated.
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The protest also went to the México City District Attorneys office where they broke windows & entered closed offices. They painted graffiti demanding #JusticeParaGiovanni - who died in police custody last month in Jalisco following a beating and arrest for not wearing a mask.
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Ciclistas protestan en defensa de sus vidas y en contra de la violencia vial y así responden la policía capitalina #CDMX
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Esas morras si me representan! Mis comadres de nuestro nuevo colectivo “Judiés por una Palestina Libre” cantando en la contra marcha, “no hay orgullo con genocidio,” enfrente de la embajada de Israel.
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Lo que nos convoca es la rabia por este orden colonial que asesine - Viva Palestina @MikaelaDrullard No hay #pride #orgullo con genocidio
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This is #Ingrid Escamilla. In Mexico City her boyfriend murdered her, skinned her body, removed her organs and a newspaper published a leaked photo of her corpse on cover. Yet another clear example of how society, the state & the press perpetuate these brutal femicides of women.
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Trans sex workers block major ave in Mexico City in protest of assassinations of their comrades and demand justice
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Yet another indigenous land defender was murdered in Mexico. Margarito Díaz González was a leader "Marakame" in the Wixárika community & opposed the dam "La Maroma" which would have a harmful impact on the sacred Wirikuta area. Armed men came to his house and shot him.
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In Mexico, a group of mothers who are searching for disappeared family members released the #Barbie Buscadora-Searcher- she is dressed ready to go look for clandestine graves in search of her missing family member whose photo is emblazoned on her shirt. @DeliaQuiroa created her.
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Something good happened in the world today - the historically conservative Mexican state of Puebla just approved same sex marriage.
Con 31 votos a favor, 5 en contra y 3 abstenciones el Congreso de Puebla aprobó el #MatrimonioIgualitario en es estado. 🏳️🌈 .
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U.S. immigration and military intervention policy murdered this girl, Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin.
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Cuando tu gobierno dice que quemaron 43 estudiantes en un basurero es lógico que la gente no les crea cuando dicen que ya no hay gente viva.
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Here they are taking down security cameras in front of the country’s main public square - Mexico City Zócalo
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This is Mexico City's busiest subway station on March 30, 2020. It shows the level of effectiveness of a government telling people "Stay at Home", where an estimated 50 million live at poverty level , 60% work in informal sector & there are no immediate economic measures to help.
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Sofi, una ciclista competitiva en México está siendo víctima de una campaña de odio TERF anti Trans. Ella invita a acuerparla en su competencia en el autódromo este sábado a las 7pm en contra del odio que la están tirando y la convocatoria para protestar su participación.
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FUUUCK! Some headlines don't need translation. News stand in Mexico City.
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Indignadas por la agresion de las policías contra las compañeras que tomaron ese cede de Derechos Humanos en #Ecatepec en protesta de Feminicidios, mujeres del bloque negro vinieron a quemar el cede.
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If you had any doubt that some lives are worth more than others, 10 nahuatl indigenous musicians were just ambushed & incinerated near Chilapa, Guerrero. When same thing happened to the Lebaron family in Sonora it was int'l news. The massacre has barely made headlines in Mexico
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Women in Mexico are fed the fuck up with being murdered and disappeared and are taking over Human Rights commissions all over the country, in protest of inaction. This has occured in Mexico City, Mexico State, Michoacán, Puebla, Veracruz and other states. Photo @SashenkaMiss
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They were film students and went to film a short in Jalisco and were kidnapped when they were on the outskirts of the large metropolitan city of Guadalajara. The government did not respond swiftly to search for them and has now declared that they were killed by criminals.
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El cuarto de queso Oaxaca subió de 28 pesos a 40 pesos en mi tienda de la esquina. Cuando pregunté porque tan cara, me dijo que era por la guerra en Ucrania.
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Maximina is 80 years old and sells newspapers in CDMX. She lives in housing subsidised by a pension created during #AMLO mayoral term and jokes that he takes care of her and she doesn’t even have to iron for him. She's much happier with these election results than those of Trump.
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Thousands of people march in Mexico City asking “Donde están?, Where are they? Referring to the #43 #Ayotzinapa teachers who were kidnapped by police five years ago today and to the date no one knows their whereabouts. #Ayotzinapa5anos
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“Nunca se había protegido tanto a las mujeres de México como ahora” nos dijo el presidente @lopezobrador_ en la mañana. Poco después,una mujer joven y embarazada fue encontrada muerta en una bolsa de basura en Ixtapaluca #edomex ¿Encontrarán su asesino?¿Habrá justicia para ella?
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Queen! La Reinota. Mexican feminists have a new heroine @LilaCizas When Mexico City police fired tear gas at protestors on #InternationalWomensDay #8m she grabbed a canister with her bare hand and returned it right back to them. Watch her in action :
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Nos llamaron zopilotas, golpistas, pagadas por Soros y que debemos regresar a nuestros países para criticar a nuestros gobiernos, pero después de que @IsobelYeung y yo preguntamos al presidente AMLO sobre el recorte a la Alerta de Genero , @SEGOB dijo que ya no habrá recorte.
Hoy @IsobelYeung y yo preguntamos al presidente @lopezobrador_ sobre feminicidios en México, el asesinato de 5 mujeres en Nicolás Romero y los recortes al presupuesto de la alerta de genero. Nos respondió que en México se respeta los derechos humanos.
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Mientras que todos dan homenaje a Moreno Valle, les acuerdo de su ligado: José Luis Tehuatlie, un niño de 13 años que fue asesinados por policías en una protesta- víctima de la ley bala de Moreno Valle
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Around the corner from the shelter Honduran and Salvadoran migrants are preparing 6000 tamales for Xmas - this is a DIY effort of 💕
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So many journalists have been killed and disappeared in Mexico since 2000 that it took 1/2 hour to read their names.
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Hundreds of Thousands march in Mexico 2 demand return of43 disappeared Normalista students #AcciónGlobalPorAyotzinapa http://t.co/hb1RnBpv2r.
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If I am ever disappeared, and the same government that didn't search for me in first place says I was dissolved in acid w/out genetic proof, please don't pay tribute to me on twitter. Keep searching for me and thousands of others that were taken from us. #NoSomosTresSomosTodxs.
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These are the covers of today's newspapers in Mexico. Only two have top headlines about the film students, both reaffirming the government's declarations, even though there is still no scientific proof that Javier, Marco and Daniel were really dissolved in acid.
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In 3.5 years, the Mexican government has not found these 43 missing students. They have tried to close case saying there bodies were reduced to ashes which cannot be identified. Surely they will try to do the same with Jalisco students based on genetic profiles found in acid.
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Prefería que ni el Oxxo ni el Costco estuviera en estos lugares.
¿A donde preferirían ir, al Oxxo que tiene vista al mar o al Costco que tiene un cenote?
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@missbreton And I always thought that leaving the windows open to make those radiators bearable seemed like the worst waste of energy.
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Journalism should be a way of life but for many in Mexico it’s a way of death. In 2018 alone, six of our colleagues have been assassinated. How much longer will these murders keep happening? When will we stop receiving death threats? When will censorship be a thing of the past?
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43 estudiantes fueron desaparecidos hace 5 años. Desde entonces sus padres iniciaron una búsqueda incansable. Yo les acompañé como periodista y ahora les presento el resultado de años de entrevistas, dibujados en mi novela gráfica: @AliveUTookThem
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From afar you may think that those who are kidnapping and disappearing people in Mexico are all members of drug cartels, but that's not the case. This @hrw report details the role that state forces play in this crisis.
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A horrible tragedy just occurred in Chiapas, Mexico. A trailer carrying a group of migrants flipped over and at least 49 people have died and 34 are injured. Dozens of graphic photos are circulating which I will not share here out of respect for their lives.
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In Mexico people are using the #10yearchallenge to remind us of the wrongly named "war on drugs" that has been waged in Mexico on the general population and how enforced disappearances, murders, femicides and corruption have ruined the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Hundreds of people in Mexico protest in solidarity with the Palestinian People. 📷 @andalalucha
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La mayoría de veces que digo, Simón, a otrxs extranjerxs en México , me preguntan ¿quién es Simón? Ahí les va una guía:
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Mexico’s Supreme Court just decriminalized abortion on a federal level. This is a huge victory thanks to all those who have struggled for decades for our right to control our own bodies.
¡@SCJN despenaliza el aborto a nivel federal! .Gracias a un amparo ganado por GIRE, todas las mujeres y personas con capacidad de gestar podrán acceder a servicios de aborto en IMSS, ISSSTE, PEMEX y cualquier institución federal de salud 💚🌊 🔥 #SeptiembreVerde
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What's it like to be a reporter in Mexico, a country that is supposedly not at war? Watch this frightening video (via Alberto Carmona) of reporters documenting gunfire today in Isla Veracruz and the police violently threatening them. Attacks on the press are constant in Mexico.
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25 yrs ago today a group of mayan rebels rose up in Chiapas, Mexico. ¡Ya Basta!These rebels, the #zapatistas, formed #EZLN army in protest of 500 yrs of colonialism & NAFTA. Today they are 1000´s strong w own autonomous government. This is how they celebrated 25 yrs of rebellion.
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43 months ago, 43 students were disappeared from #Ayotzinapa teacher's college. Mexican government declared they were burned in a garbage dump. It was later revealed that the fire would have been scientifically impossible and the detainees' testimonies were obtained via torture.
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In Mexico 11 women are killed every day. Women protest in defense of their lives and are repressed. Then some women take more intense action. #Ecatepec #CODHEM #derechoshumanos #edomex
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Here are heartbreaking images of Alexander Martinez' family and friends mourning his death after he was murdered by municipal police in Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, Oaxaca, Mexico. Photos taken by Mexican photographer @felyxmarquez #JusticiaParaAlexander
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Ciclistas cierran viaducto en protesta de la muerte de Carlos Rivera quien murió atropellado ayer sobre Tlalpan en #cdmx #niunabiciblancamas #NoMasCiclistasMuertxs
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Mexico's greatest contemporary artist and fierce activist, Francisco Toledo just passed away at 79 yrs of age. He flew kites with the families of Ayotzinapa, protested gmo corn and the incursion of McDonald's in Oaxaca, and supported the people of the isthmus post earthquake.
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Yesterday members of the migrant caravan marched in one of the fanciest neighborhoods in Mexico City, Polanco, bringing their reality to their lunch tables.
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Pink glitter has become symbol of an emerging movement in Mexico City. Following a series of rapes of young women in Mexico City commited by the police, women protested outside DA’s office and glitter was thrown at the police chief. Today they will take to the streets again.
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Yet another journalist was murdered in Tijuana, Mexico. Her name is Lourdes Maldonado and she had previously requested help of the president and she feared for her life. She is the third journalist to be assassinated in Mexico in January of 2022.
¿Qué pasa en #BajaCalifornia?. Nos acaban de confirmar el asesinato de otra colega en #Tijuana. Se trata de la periodista Lourdes Maldonado. Estaba bajo la protección del mecanismo federal y hace tiempo denunció que tenía por su vida. Acá cuando pidió apoyo a @lopezobrador_.
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Yet another journalist was assassinated in Mexico. Margarito Martínez was a freelance photojournalist who was shot dead in front of his house today in Tijuana. Journo José Luis Gamboa was murdered in Veracruz just a few days ago.The calendar year changes but the murders continue.
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Que fuerte imagen. Un avión listo para recoger pacientes en Italia para que puedan ser atendidos en hospitales en Alemania.
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Today Mexico's commissioner on Human Rights @RosarioPiedraIb was asked what she thought about the migrants who had been repressed at the Southern Border by the National Guard. There is no need for translation, because her response was a simple smirk.
¿Qué pasa cuando se le intenta preguntar a @RosarioPiedraIb sobre la represión de centroamericanos por la #GuardiaNacional ? . 👋🏼. #migracion .#fronterasur.#CNDH
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Six years ago on September 26, 2014, Mexican police attacked, kidnapped and disappeared 43 students from the #Ayotzinapa teachers college. To the date their parents still search for them and demand justice and the truth. They say they can’t rest until their sons return home.
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Apparently, Yalitza Aparicio is both pretty and famous enough to be on the cover of one of Mexico's most well read fashion magazines, @holamexico, but she's still too brown for their taste so they mega photoshopped her.
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One of the greatest honors of my journalist career was when I got to be the personal translator for Michael K Williams for a documentary he was working on in Mexico. He was so humble with everyone he interviewed and will be greatly missed.
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Nuestro compañero periodista @moisesrosas de @heraldodemexico estaba grabando la detención de un gasero en #Ecatepec y los policías le golpearon y le detuvieron. Exigimos que liberen a nuestro compañero, castiguen a los policías y que no nos repriman por hacer nuestro trabajo.
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Guerrero es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en México para ser mujer con altas índices de desapariciones y Feminicidios. Hoy mujeres en Acapulco están protestando en las instalaciones del @CNDH “Que tiemblen los machistas, América Latina será todo feminista” (📹Carlos Carbajal)
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¿Se acuerdan de cuando preguntamos al presidente @lopezobrador_ sobre violencia de género y nos dijo que la situación nunca ha sido mejor para las mujeres? Ya salió el documental donde estuvimos investigando este tema. Lo pueden ver en @VICENews.
Women in Mexico are being abused and killed at record rates, while impunity & government inaction reign supreme. Watch here:
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Ayelin, a 13 old girl went missing in Tixtla, Guerrero, four days ago. Today her dismembered body was found near her house. Her death has barely made headlines in Mexico, reminding us that some lives seem to matter more than others. Ayelin, your life matters #JusiticiaParaAyelin
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Women didn’t just take over the National Human Rights Commission in Mexico they also renamed it with a beautiful ceramic plaque Okupa Ni Una Menos Casa de Refugio- Not one less woman shelter.
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Hoy el presidente @lopezobrador_ prometió que me entregará este documento de testimonios de militares relacionado al caso de #Ayotzinapa sin esas líneas negras. Pidió apoyo a @A_Encinas_R para asegurar que haya transparencia y avances en la investigación. Yo quedo al pendiente.
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Over 30,000 people have been disappeared in Mexico in the past decade. In Jalisco state, men applied to be security guards, were kidnapped and forced to work for organized crime. @AGuillenG tells their stories in this podcast in Spanish @asicomosuenamx
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Mexican police opened fire on a group of unarmed students from Ayotzinapa school, killing 3 of them and kidnapping 43 of them. Aguirre, governor at the time did nothing to search for disappeared students and was forced to step down. Today he is running for federal office.
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