On the same day this week that President Obama
announced a measure that could give legal protection to 5 million
undocumented immigrants, massive protests raged across Mexico against
the impunity and corruption that led to the horrific massacre of 43
students. From Mexico City, Sergio Sarmiento, Elena Poniatowska and
Homero Aridjis chronicle the events and ponder what's next.
Anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz examines the causes behind Mexico's
corrosive impunity.
Meanwhile, as Xin Chunying writes from Beijing, China is also seeking to
establish the rule of law through steadily boosting the role of the
National People's Congress. While stifling dissent, China's President Xi
is taking on both "tigers and flies" in his no-holds-barred assault
from the top down on corruption.
Can China's effort succeed without active public engagement? Can Mexico
learn from China and move from angry protest to systemic change?
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Editor-in-chief, THEWORLDPOST
The government is now afraid to use public force to
prevent demonstrators from blockading roads and streets, stealing buses
and trucks, ransacking supermarkets and torching government buildings.
President Peña Nieto has claimed that his patience has limits, but so
far the Ayotzinapa movement appears to have forced him into a corner.
Sergio Sarmiento, columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, TV and radio commentator
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The mood in Mexico is so depressing that even Elena
Poniatowska, the novelist-journalist who chronicled the 1968 massacre of
students in Tlatelolco, feels a chill when she talks about the murder
of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, who were found burned to death in a
municipal trash dump. At 82, Poniatowska keeps on exposing social
injustice in Mexico in memorable books like
Here's to You, Jesusa, Nothing No One: The Voices of the Earthquake
and thousands of journalistic articles in newspapers and magazines all
over the world. This year, she won the prestigious Premio Cervantes, the
equivalent of the Nobel for Spanish language writers.
syndicated Latin American columnist
When Iguala, Guerrero municipal police
and masked men in unmarked black uniforms opened fire on unarmed
students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college last September, killing
six people and kidnapping 43 students, they lit the fuse of a national
crisis.
Director of Mexico program for Global Exchange
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The impunity enjoyed by some has tarnished the
police, prosecutors and politicians as a whole, whether honest or
dishonest. To prevent another Iguala -- or another Villas de Salvárcar
or another San Fernando -- Mexican leaders must show that rule of law
prevails, especially for those required to uphold it.
Project director for Mexico and Central America at International Crisis Group
There is a deep history behind Mexico's current
horrors of crime and impunity that only Mexicans can deal with. A weak
state, the informal economy and lack of accountability because of a low
tax base all play key roles -- but U.S. drug and gun policies are also
responsible.
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University; author, “Death and the Idea of Mexico.”
The disappeared students of Iguala have
served to lend voice to the stories of a country that has been silenced
for far too long. Ayotzinapa may be Mexico's long anticipated turning
point.
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For the past two weeks, Gael García
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shows, news programs, and even fake news programs -- to promote his
newest film, the Jon Stewart-directed drama
Rosewater.
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