LISTEN: Mexico’s Missing 43
Journalist Steve Fisher talks with KPFK’s Joshua Scheer about his and Anabel Hernández's investigative work on the missing 43 students in Mexico. Also, Truthdig's Kasia Anderson discusses Stephen Colbert's debut, and Liza Gold talks gun deaths and mental health.
Demonstrators march in Mexico City on Oct. 22 in protest of the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College. (AP / Marco Ugarte)
Journalist Steve Fisher talks with KPFK’s Joshua Scheer about his and Anabel Hernández’s investigative work on the missing 43 students in Mexico. Read more here.
Also, Truthdig’s Kasia Anderson discusses Stephen Colbert’s debut, and Liza Gold talks gun deaths and mental health. Here is the report she mentions concerning suicide and gun deaths.
Don’t miss our exclusive excerpt, “The Missing 43,” from “A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ‘Mexican Drug War’ ” by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace.
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