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By Shannon Young
The expansion of Mexico’s drug war has many Mexicans worried about their country, and their personal safety.
And increasingly, they’re speaking out against the violence. A demonstration took place recently in Oaxaca City. Isabel Nivon was one of the marchers.
“I attended the march because the news each day outrages me,” Nivon said. “Conflicts that used to be between drug traffickers and the military have expanded to the point that ordinary civilians (…)
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Mexicans fed up of violence
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Forced Disappearances on the Rise in Mexico
24 March 2011, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoBy Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) - Malena Reyes, her brother Elías and his wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped Feb. 7 in the municipality of Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were found two weeks later, in a case that is among those drawing international scrutiny.
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is gathering and analysing information about some 30 activists who have been forcibly disappeared, to (…) -
Report on Enforced Disappearance in Mexico 2011
21 March 2011, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoPresented by member organizations of the National Campaign against Enforced Disappearance to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Report on Enforced Disappearance in Mexico 2011 Presented by member organizations of the National Campaign against Enforced Disappearance to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Mexico City, March 21, 2011 Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances United Nations (…) -
Mexico: Reyes Salazars demand an end to the "stupid war"
1ro de marzo de 2011, por Comité Cerezo México"How convenient, how timely," the Cerezo Mexico Committee Human Rights Organization wrote on Feb. 25. The group, which was formed to defend three brothers imprisoned for an alleged bomb plot in 2001, added: "If we forgot the causes that motivated these acts, we might…think the state is right when it explains that they were connected with crime, but let’s remember that the struggle that the Reyes Salazar family took on was and continues to be against the militarization, against the (…)
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Mexico: two Oaxaca activists murdered
24 de octubre de 2010, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoThe Cerezo Mexico Committee Human Rights Organization, [...] called the killing part of a government "[s]trategy that was designed as a form of containing, dividing and annihilating the social movement." The use of what appeared to be professional killers with silencers on a motorcycle—the "same modus operandi as that of the Colombian paramilitaries"—"shows us an advance in the degree of sophistication in paramilitary activity in México,"
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Letter to Digna Ochoa y Plácido on the 9th Anniversary of her Death
21 October 2010, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoYou were a human rights defender with an attitude of commitment with many people and social organizations. You took on their legal cases and denounced violations of their human rights, just as you did with our case and for that we thank you infinitely.
For your bravery you were put on the “black list” of political activists and you were watched, harassed, threatened with death, kidnapped, and ultimately deprived of life.
When we found out that you, along with other lawyers, took on (…) -
Bulletin 9th Anniversary Cerezo Committee México
25 August 2010, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoMany organizations and people shared with us their knowledge, time, money and daily effort: some of them as members of the committee, others as friends or partners of a common struggle.
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Surveillance, tracking and harassment of Alejandro Cerezo Contreras
15 April 2010, by Comité Cerezo MéxicoSurveillance, tracking and harassment of Alejandro Cerezo Contreras, member of the Comité Cerezo México and Vice President of Acción Urgente para Defensores de Derechos Humanos AC (Urgent Action for Human Rights Defenders).
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Political prisoners in Mexico
28 de febrero de 2009, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoAfter seven-and-a-half years of unjust imprisonment, on February 16, the brothers Hector and Antonio Cerezo were released.
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Political prisoners in Mexico
7 de febrero de 2009, por Comité Cerezo MéxicoIn today´s Mexico, there are over 500 political prisoners, as registered by human rights organizations such as the Cerezo Committee, the National Coordination for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, the Mexican League of Human Rights and other organisations. There are also over 900 people persecuted for political reasons. The “democratic” government of Mexico refuses to accept the existence of these type of prisoners, who are considered “terrorists”, “kidnappers”, common criminals.