"He has a book! He has a book!"
Op-ed piece by "DD" at
Borderland Beat: “They wanted to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds"
It's about protests in support of the 43 disappeared (and probably dead) students of the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. These protests are happening not only all over Mexico, but at places like Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Tufts as well.
The massacre also caught the attention of Jonathan Fox of American University, writing on
The Hill's Congress Blog (
Behind Mexico’s latest massacre: Authorities were warned but didn’t listen): "The U.S. government-funded Merida Initiative was supposed to bolster Mexican government efforts to promote the rule of law and human rights. The accountability failures exposed by the Iguala atrocity suggest that it’s time to take a closer look, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer money is part of the solution rather than part of the problem." Fox also wrote, "Today, in spite of the climate of repression, Guerrero is filled with groups that are ready to be listened to: brave human rights defenders, coffee cooperatives, indigenous rights advocates, grassroots environmentalists, women’s health promoters, cross-border migrant philanthropy clubs, as well as broad-based community-based police forces in the state’s mountain and coastal regions."