By MARK LORENZANA After two years of being held virtually because of the covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 250,000 attendees trooped to this year’s LGBTQ+ Pride March in Mexico City on Saturday, June 25. The parade, according to organizers, was the largest ever in Mexico City in terms of attendance. The parade began at 9 a.m. in downtown Mexico City’s Angel
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The investigation into the disappearance and execution of 43 rural Mexican normal school students on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, is getting more tangled up as the days go by, nearly five years after the fact. Over the past week, judges have been releasing the confessed culprits, not because they are innocent, but because their cases were
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By MATT SEDDON Mexico City’s Angel of Independence Monument is now covered with political graffiti. It is now both a witness to the hopes that come with independence and to the lack of independence women in Mexico have due to violence. The protests that included spray painting the Angel were instigated by allegations of horrendous rapes of underage girls by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO For two consecutive weeks, throngs of angry masked women have staged virulent protests against the Mexico City police. These often violent demonstrations have taken city authorities — and especial women’s lib advocate Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum — by surprise given the unexpected spontaneity from which the protests sprouted. There are, however, motives. It all started with two incidents
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