Sep 16 2015
Youth on Both Sides of US-Mexico Border Are Facing, and Fighting Violence
GUEST: Crystal Vance Guerra is a Chicana journalist, researcher and artist. She recently obtained her master’s degree in Latin American studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, focusing on US counterinsurgency in Central America. Her lengthy article in Truthout captures the parallels of the US and Mexico, called The Dirty War Against Youth, From Ferguson to Ayotzinapa.
Over the past year 2 major uprisings have taken place on both sides of the US-Mexico border. They have involved violence against young people as the result of policies put in place over decades through a collusion of government and criminal elements, and rebellions by youth.
In the US, black youth and women, tired of police violence and the criminalization they face, are organizing under the banner Black Lives Matter. In Mexico, young people and women, tired of the state and narco violence, are fighting back. The flash points in Ferguson, Missouri, and Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Guerrero, are strikingly parallel and offer lessons when examined.
Read Crystal’s full article ‘The Dirty War Against Youth, From Ferguson to Ayotzinapa’ here.
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