AyotzinapArizona - 43 Hearts, 48 Months

  International Protest
and
Continental Indigenous
Solidarity with Ayotzinapa

Wednesday September 26th, 2018

Consulate of Mexico in Phoenix

320 E McDowell

4:00-7:00 PM

¡Vivos los llevaron, Vivos los queremos! 
 

They were taken alive!

We want them back alive! 
¡Sin Perdón, Sin Olvido!

NO IMPUNITY! NO DENIAL!

Wednesday September 26, 2018 marks the 4th Year anniversary of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students by agents of the three levels of government (municipal-state-federal) of the narco state of president Enrique Peña Nieto of México.

The incident occurred on the evening of September 26, 2014. Six deaths also occurred on that evening in Iguala, Guerrero.

Among the pieces of irrefutable, concrete evidence collected by the Independent International Group of Experts (GIEI) were 18 spent cartridges of a particular caliber and manufacture ONLY AVAILABLE to the federal military apparatus. The GIEI was also denied entry into the headquarters of the Battalion 27 headquarters in Iguala where telemetric evidence of one of the students, Jorge Anibal Cruz, has revealed the last live text message was emitted from within the Battalion 27 headquarters at 1:16 AM of the 27th of September.

The bus carrying the 43 Ayotzinapa students that was attacked on the evening of the 26th of September in Iguala was loaded with heroin to be delivered to Chicago. The 43 Ayotzinapa students were unaware of this fact, but they were then caught up in the efforts of the narco network cartel to recover the drug cargo. They have not been seen since. They have been eliminated as WITNESSES to the complicity of the Mexican federal police, military and the local and national political apparatus in the international narco state drug trade.
 

All of this under the watchful eye and with the military support, training, supply, financing and INTELLIGENCE GATHERING of the US government under the Plan Merida-Mexico initiative.

All of this in spite of the fact that the Leahy Amendment prohibits the funding and support by the US foreign government found guilty of Human Rights violations.
 

All of this while the US and Mexican governments have announced agreement on a bi-lateral trade compact without revealing the content of the deal in regards to the Right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples relative to economic development projects affecting their territories and human rights.

All of this in the context of the report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September 2018 in Geneva, regarding her visit to Mexico in 2017:

28 September 2018

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her visit to Mexico

Note by the Secretariat

This report examines the situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico.  It is based on information received by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples during her visit to the country from 8 to 17 November 2017 and on independent research.  The Special Rapporteur notes that, since the official visit made in 2003 by the former Special   Rapporteur, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, and despite the commitments subsequently made by Mexico in the field of human rights, indigenous peoples continue to face serious challenges in the exercise of their human rights.

Current development policies, which are based on megaprojects (in mining, energy, tourism, real estate and agriculture, among other areas), pose a major challenge to indigenous peoples’ enjoyment of human rights. Lack of self-determination and prior, free, informed and culturally appropriate consultation are compounded by land conflicts, forced displacement, and criminal accusations and violence against indigenous peoples who defend their rights.

All these problems are taking place against a backdrop of profound inequality, poverty and discrimination faced by indigenous peoples that restricts their access to justice, education, health and other basic services.

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The case of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, who disappeared  in September 2014 is particularly emblematic. The Special Rapporteur met with the parents of some of the students from indigenous communities and noted how little progress had been made in investigating the whereabouts of their children.  Another notable case is the massacre of 46 persons that took place in Acteal, Chiapas, in December 1997. The Special Rapporteur met with survivors and members of the victims’ families who are still seeking justice   and   a   full   investigation of this massacre, which disproportionately affected indigenous women.

According to sources within the current US government the Plan Merida is to be revised after the new government of president Manuel Lopez Obrador takes office on December 1, 2018.
In 2018, the US Congress has appropriated $145 million for the Merida Initiative.

DEMANDS:

STOP PLAN MERIDA!

STOP FUNDING THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO!

INVOKE THE LEAHY AMENDMENT IN MEXICO!

FULFILL THE COMMITMENT TO AYOTZINAPA PARENTS IN THE FOUR AREAS OF INVESTIGATION OF THE FORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF THE 43 AYOTZINAPA STUDENTS!

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