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Four Years Since the Disappearance of 43 Students in Mexico: We Want Them Back Alive

16th October 2018
Topics: Action Reports, Mexico

Last month, CAAT joined Mexican activists for a protest outside the Mexican embassy in London. In this article, a spokesperson for London Mexico Solidarity explains why they were protesting.

Four years have passed since 43 students were disappeared in Guerrero, southwest Mexico, by different state agents acting in collusion with the organised crime.

The student’s whereabouts remain unknown while impunity reigns over a case that reveals the complexity and atrocity that Mexico’s ongoing human rights crisis may reach. Read more »

Resisting police militarisation: shut down ‘Security and Policing’

10th March 2016
Topics: Action Reports, Arms companies, Arms fairs, BAE, Bahrain, Israel / Palestine, Mexico, Saudi Arabia

Last night I joined activists from several groups including the Network for Police Monitoring, Global Justice Now, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, London Mexico Solidarity, London Campaign Against Arms Trade and Stop the Arms Fair for a protest outside the Home Office to call for an end to the ‘Security and Policing’ arms fair.

Candles in jam jars in front of a 'Human Crisis Your Profits' placard

Photo by Sophie Mawson

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Ayotzinapa one year on: How the UK is fuelling Mexico’s deadly war

30th September 2015
Topics: Action Reports, DSEI, Mexico

On 26th September 2014, police in the Mexican town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero ambushed a convoy of buses carrying students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College to a protest march. Police opened fire, killing several students and bystanders, and abducted 43 students in police vehicles. The students have not been seen since.

The first anniversary of this mass disappearance saw demonstrations across Mexico and around the world. I joined campaigners outside the Mexican Embassy in London’s Mayfair, and spoke to the crowd about the UK’s complicity in the human rights abuses spiralling out of control in Mexico.

Protesters stand with pictures of the disappeared in front of the Mexican Embassy

Demonstrators outside the Mexican Embassy in London, 26th September 2015

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