Mexican Police Killing of 12 Teachers Recalls Disappearance of 43 Students in 2014

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2016 In a crackdown allegedly ordered by the Guerrero state governor, police fired live ammunition Sunday at the group of teachers protesting neoliberal education reforms, leaving at least a dozen dead and countless others wounded. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexican Media and Government Are Using Donald Trump to Distract Citizens From Student Killings

Staff / Truthdig Apr 26, 2016 A panel of experts is accusing the Mexican government of thwarting its investigation of a student massacre and torturing suspects, but the top story in a prominent Mexican newspaper is about standing up to Trump. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Mexican Human Rights Defenders Say They’re Targets of a Smear Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2016 On the eve of the release of a report investigating a student massacre in 2014, its authors and other human rights advocates feared an attempt to pre-empt the findings and discredit the work. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

A Solution We Didn’t Know We Needed: Now You Can Bequeath Your Tattoos

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2015 If you have a tattoo, you no longer have to worry about it dying out with your body, thanks to a new service; a piece explains why we're unable to keep pharmaceutical companies from charging absurd amounts for drugs; meanwhile, a year after the Ayotzinapa disappearances in Mexico, relatives of the missing students are still seeking justice. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

LISTEN: Mexico’s Missing 43

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Sep 12, 2015 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Search for Missing Students in Mexico Finds Corpses of at Least 129 Other People

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jul 27, 2015 None of the bodies uncovered have been linked to the Ayotzinapa students missing for the past 10 months. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s Escape Threatens Enrique Peña Nieto’s Presidency

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 15, 2015 The current leader of Mexico has been putting nail after nail in the coffin of his political career, but his most recent blunder may actually bury him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Watch This Powerful Short Film About the Students Missing From Ayotzinapa

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Mar 26, 2015 Months after 43 students went missing from a village in Guerrero and left Mexico reeling, The New Yorker takes a look at conditions in the Mexican state and the community's response to the disappearance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Missing 43

By Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace Mar 14, 2015 This exclusive excerpt from “A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the ‘Mexican Drug War,’ ” gives a harrowing account of how 43 Mexican students disappeared last year. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

After Months of Protests, Mexican Government Declares 43 Missing Students Dead

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 29, 2015 Mexican authorities have finally said what happened to the college students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared last September, an incident that sparked months of outrage throughout the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Meeting With Mexican President Reveals Obama’s No. 1 Concern: Money

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jan 13, 2015 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's recent visit to the White House, which comes just months after outrage resonated throughout the world over the state-sponsored disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, proves what some of us already suspected about our own president. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paris’ Radical Plan to Keep the Rich From Completely Gentrifying Central Neighborhoods

Staff / Truthdig Dec 20, 2014 The French government has announced a plan to prevent housing displacement and the creation of "ghettos for the rich" in the capital; apparently, watching "The Colbert Report" made some people more conservative; meanwhile, the principles of the 1910 Mexican Revolution are being revived by the protest movement inspired by the Ayotzinapa students' disappearance. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )