It has been over seven years since 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Guerrero, Mexico, were taken by armed men in the middle of the night.

Thousands marched in cities across Mexico on Saturday to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers College in the state of Guerrero.

The attorney general announced yesterday that he requested arrest warrants for 46 officials in the reopened investigation into the disappearance of 43 Mexican students from Iguala, Guerrero in 2014.

As of now, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to deliver daily press conferences.

Latino Rebels Radio, September 25, 2016

On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

In case you missed it, since there was little to no coverage at all in mainstream U.S. media, here is a video of a November 15 solidarity protest in downtown San Francisco for #Ayotzinapa: One of our own Rebeldes was on the ground in San Francisco taking pictures from the scene: Another one from @minsd […]

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The following video is in Spanish. It provides a history of state violence and corruption in Mexico. As the video channel says in English: The straw that broke the camel’s back. We do not fear. Tlatelolco, June 10, Aguas Blancas, Acteal, Atenco, Nursery ABC Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa: A cumulative violence of murders and disappearances have raised […]

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U.S. authorities handed over a key suspect in the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students to Mexico, after the man was caught trying to cross the border on December 20 without proper documents.

A wrap-up of the most important and interesting Latino news items from the past week

Early this month, several media outlets published classified information leaked from servers of the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense, sparking a national debate in Mexico concerning the main function of the Army.

Futuro Investigates obtained a copy of an official document with a new and horrifying version of what might have happened. The report concluded that all the students were indeed killed but implied the Mexican army was an accomplice in covering up the crimes.

Only public scrutiny of new evidence can ensure the robustness of truth and reconciliation in the case of Ayotzinapa.. Only when all 43 students have been found can Mexico finally hope for a rare taste of justice—never complete, and always bittersweet.

Mexico’s former attorney general who oversaw the original investigation into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teachers’ college will go to trial on charges of forced disappearance, torture and official misconduct, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Daniel Foote stated in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the deportation policy would exacerbate the already dire situation in Haiti and in turn, drive more migrants to the border.

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute (INM) has dodged questions regarding the number of COVID-19 cases at its detention facilities.

The case was the first to be filed before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and centers around the cases of five women.