Posts Tagged ‘Ayotzinapa’

Mexico Burning Followup

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

The news reports are downplaying last night’s Mexican protests, saying they only succeeded in setting the front door of the ceremonial National Palace alight.

The dramatic pictures of burning trucks appear to be from Chilpancingo, the capital of the state of Guerrero, which also contains Ayotzinapa, where the massacred students hailed from.

There are also reports of the PRI Mayor in Oaxaca authorizing police to fire on protestors.

Vaguely related: A New York Times reporter gets shaken down by a crooked cop in Mexico.

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Undernews: Mexico Burning Tonight

Saturday, November 8th, 2014

Doesn’t look like the American MSM have caught up, but Mexico’s National Palace appears to be on fire tonight:

Government buildings are on fire in other parts of Mexico as well.

This is the combination of years of endemic corruption, stagnation and incompetence by the government (and especially the ruling PRI party), but most recently the deaths of 43 Mexican students from Ayotzinapa who were “abducted by police on order of a local mayor, and are believed to have been turned over to a gang that killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river” just to keep the mayor from being embarrassed by their protests, was the match that set off the explosion.

Fun how people get upset when you kill off children for political reasons.

It seems that significant portions of Mexico are fire tonight, and America’s national media seems asleep at the switch…

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