Lucio R Borderland Beat posted by JA Computer written by Sky Robbins from The New Yorker
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It’s been six months since forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School went missing in the town of Iguala, in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s poorest and most violent states.
In the indigenous communities of La Montaña and the Costa Chica, where many of the students lived, the disappearances are only one example of the crime, corruption, and impunity that plague the region.
As Abel Barrera Hernàndez, a human-rights activist, said, “Here in the mountains . . . you live with the demons.”
In the indigenous communities of La Montaña and the Costa Chica, where many of the students lived, the disappearances are only one example of the crime, corruption, and impunity that plague the region.
As Abel Barrera Hernàndez, a human-rights activist, said, “Here in the mountains . . . you live with the demons.”