To talk about migration in this month of November, when we honor our dead & celebrate their memory, is also to renew hope. While many governments remain silent, millions of people organize, march, and protest against authoritarianism and hatred.
The exodus left Mexico’s southern border after reporting that their asylum applications took months, even more than a year, and that they didn’t have the necessary resources to wait.
How is it possible that those who have driven the economic growth of the United States and their countries of origin such as Mexico remain trapped in a grinding poverty that condemns them to exile?
“The adversary is too strong to confront individually, what is desirable is the unity of the continent’s governments against imperialist policies.”
Speaking to the victims’ families and survivors, the former Migration commissioner acknowledged that this tragedy was “unacceptable” and that “the victims’ human rights were violated.”
Mexico is currently awaiting a response that guarantees that the incidents will not go unpunished, and has requested the FBI investigate the death, which occurred during an ICE operation.
The surprise announcement that Los Aguilar would be performing at a Mexican Independence event sparked criticism, and mobilized citizens to cancel the concert in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
It is not enough to denounce Trump: it is necessary to point the finger at the global system, led by the United States, which has historically exploited the
poorest peoples.