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- On September 26, 2014, a
group of more than 100 students
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from the teachers school in
Ayotzinapa, Guerrero Mexico,
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were followed by local police
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later in the nearby city of Agarwal,
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they were viciously attacked.
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(sorrowful music)
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(orchestral music)
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(suspenseful music)
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In the aftermath of the attack,
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it was confirmed 6 students
were killed, 25 wounded
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and 43 students were forcibly disappeared
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and would never be seen again.
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(suspenseful music)
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Only two of the disappeared
students have been proven dead
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by international forensic teams.
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In February, 2015, British
parliamentarian, Jeremy Corbyn,
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and the campaign group Justice Mexico Now
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with the support of other
activist groups held
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an open conference in the
houses of parliament London
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to discuss human rights in
Mexico and in particular,
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the disappearance of the 43
students from Ayotzinapa.
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The debate would also raise
issues surrounding Mexico's
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political and economic system as a whole.
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Marissa Polin is an artist
and activist living in London,
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and just one of the founding
members of Justice Mexico Now,
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a UK base activist group.
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She's one of many Mexicans
fighting for justice
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and democracy in Mexico.
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- Jeremy is the parliamentarian
who has started the motion
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to support the students and
already 44 parliamentarians
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have signed it. Yes.
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So he's our guy. Yes.
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- Great.
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- And he has been to Mexico.
He knows about Mexico,
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and he's a guy who convinced
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- He was a guy that came
out, this is his motion.
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- Yes. It is his motion.
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It's the four, six nine or
something like that. Yeah.
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- But they're already 44 who have signed,
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so it's quite good.
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- Great.
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- Yeah.
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The Mexican government is
not too happy about it,
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because he's a parliamentarian.
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Of course they have to talk with him.
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- [Narrator] In a few weeks
time, Justice Mexico Now,
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will demonstrate in front
of Downing Street to protest
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at the reception, offered
to the president of Mexico.
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In the lead up to the
president of Mexico's visit,
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Jeremy Corbyn speaks in
support of campaign groups,
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Justice Mexico Now, and Liberation
in the House of Commons.
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- This meeting tonight
is jointly organised
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by Liberation and Justice Mexico Now.
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Liberation is an old
stamping, long standing
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human rights organisation founded in 1955.
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- How many of your
parents or family friends
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have said, don't do what I'm doing, don't.
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- My family never tell me not to,
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but they don't talk about it.
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- [Female Respondent]
They don't talk about it.
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Nobody talks about it.
- They don't tell me not to,
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they'll prescribe what
I can and can't say,
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but they certainly, don't
to talk about it themselves.
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- [Female respondent] They complain about
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the situation in Mexico, but
don't want to talk about it.
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It's good cause they are there.
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- Well lets talk to Dr. Polin about it.
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- In Mexico, you talk about human rights,
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Some people don't even know what that is
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or they say yeah, it's
type of thing on paper,
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but that doesn't exist.
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So what I think is that people from below
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has to organise come to us, can demand
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and fight for their rights.
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(protestor shouting)
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(crowd chanting)
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The first news I heard was about 53.
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And that was just one day after.
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- We always demanded him
to keep studying hard
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because of the hardships
that being a peasant entails.
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(sorrowful music)
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- On that night, the
students were gathering money
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and also some buses to go to Mexico city.
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And on the 2nd of October,
it's a very important date
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in the social movements.
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Because in 1968, there was
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a massive killing of
students in Mexico city.
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And these students were
gathering funds to go
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to that demonstration in Mexico city.
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And that's when they were attacked.
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- [Narrator] The students
commandeered several buses
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to travel to Mexico city to commemorate
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the anniversary of the
1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
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(students screaming)
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(suspenseful music)
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(foreign language spoken)
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- Evidence suggests during the journey,
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they were followed by local police
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who later intercepted them.
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They were then attacked and shot at
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43 of these students have
never been seen again.
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According to the Mexican government,
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they were handed over
to a local drug cartel,
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murdered and then burned
in a garbage dump.
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Reports link federal
police forces to the case,
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stating that military
personnel in the area
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deliberately omitted helping the students
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others suggest the direct
involvement of the Mexican army
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in the kidnapping of the students.
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The following footage
was filmed that night
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at the scene of the attack
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by one of the remaining
students on their mobile phone.
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(foreign language spoken)
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(gun shot fired)
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(foreign language spoken)
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(gun shot fired)
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(foreign language spoken)
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(gun shot fired)
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(foreign language spoken)
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- We were mourning, we're still up to now
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because there is no proof they're dead.
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We still say that they are disappeared.
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- Omar Garcia, survivor and
speaker of Ayotzinapa students,
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and Eleucadio Ortega, the
father of missing student,
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Mauricio Ortega Valerio
have been travelling around
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the world building international support
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to raise awareness of
this student's plight.
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(crowd chanting)
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- That's how it all started. Yeah.
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I think, we were also shocked, right.
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Before that, when you
heard of people vanishing
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or disappearing or dying,
it sort of felt like
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this is going to sound terrible,
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but it sort of felt like a lot
of these people were somewhat
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connected to maybe drug families
or cartels or something.
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And I think where we're really woke us up
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and it shook us, was with the 43.
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When you realise, wait a
second, it's not like that.
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I should have known that myself,
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one of my family members was murdered.
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But it shook us to realise
they're killing students.
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They're killing people in
rural areas who are studying
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to become teachers to stay in rural areas.
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- And I have to say also at
that moment, I still had hope.
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They've been disappeared
for three, four days,
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maybe they're keeping
them somewhere, somehow.
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But it was so sad.
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(foreign language spoken)
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- And the way they've done it
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is just by trying to fool everyone.
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On the 6th of October,
they tried to hand us over
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with the bodies they
found in the mass graves.
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- At the beginning, the first weeks,
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they tried to say, yeah, well
we found some mass graves
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and probably the students are there.
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So that's it.
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And people said, no. You
cannot say, that's it.
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You have to prove that the bodies found
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are the bodies of the students.
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And they couldn't do that because
they had so much attention
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on them that they had
to perform DNA tests,
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and they realised that
none of the bodies found
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in those mass graves
where of the students.
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So suddenly they had not only the problem
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of the disappearance of the students,
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but also these mass graves
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that they started to find in Guerrero.
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- According to medical
records, the teeth remains
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that was found in that dumpster
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doesn't match any of our cross myths.
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(foreign language spoken)
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And those medical records also prove
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that none of our classmates
had chicken bones
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or dog bones or cow bones in them.
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- The way in which it was
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so in your face, it was
almost like the powers
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at be were saying, you're powerless.
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And this is how we are gonna
show you are powerless.
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And that was, I think that
was really what shook us,
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and woke us up to really
start caring, not caring,
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but talking about the issue
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and hoping to do something about it.
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- I think the youngest was 17 years old.
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One of them had just become
a father at 21 or 22.
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(foreign language spoken)
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(boys laugh)
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- The day after, you realise
how bad was the situation,
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because the day after the disappearance,
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one of them appeared
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without his face and eyes on the street.
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They just drop it there, as a signal.
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So if they dare to kill someone,
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take off his face and haul out his eyes.
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- The Mexican government tried to say that
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it was only local police.
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And they gave the students
to the organised crime.
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So we don't have anything to do with that.
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It was not the Mexican state.
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It was just the local gang of police
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that didn't know what they were doing,
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or that were corrupted,
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but we don't have
anything to do with that.
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(gentle music)
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That's what they have
done in many other cases,
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they say, no, it's not our responsibility.
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It was only one policeman
or two military officials,
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and the thing is that
under international laws,
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even if it's only one police member
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that disappeared one person,
the state is responsible
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because that police member
is a member of the state,
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it's a representative of the state.
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So they try to wash off
their hands, but they can't.
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- [Female interpretor]
And so they insisted
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on getting to us the bodies
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that they had discovered
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in these clandestine graves.
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(foreign language spoken)
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- [Interpreter] And so, as parents,
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we were terribly worried about our kids.
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- So you have mass graves in
a number of States in Mexico,
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but people didn't know about that.
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And after I do see that
people realise that
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and realise that, oh! So
there are mass graves.
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And they started to put
attention on problems that were
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already there, but they were
not paying attention to them.
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And what we have to understand is that,
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the Mexican government
and the organised crime
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are not two different
things. It's the same thing.
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- I couldn't understand
that Mexicans like me,
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were killing Mexicans like me
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in the most violent and
vicious, just atrocities.
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Things that I never
thought they would exist,
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they weren't doing that.
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It was our brothers.
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- [Female interpreter] When we got there,
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the group of Argentine investigators,
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started taking blood samples from us.
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(foreign language spoken)
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The group of Argentine
research and investigators
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ran some tests and they confirmed
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that those bodies were not our children.
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(protestors chanting 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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- But it's not the first time,
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there was a boss
disappeared with everybody,
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and then later they appear
all this hundred eight.
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I don't know exactly how
many people, it's just like,
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we cannot keep track of the amount
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of disappeared and killed people.
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The disappeared form
the official site number
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is like 20 something
thousand people disappeared
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in Mexico the last years.
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(protesters chanting)
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(sorrowful music)
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I mean, even if they would
stop now killing anyone else,
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if the army will leave
the cities and the police
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will become really good, there's still
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all these families without one member.
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- Jeremy Corbyn a much more
intelligent literate man than I,
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yesterday said trade should be encouraged,
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but never at the expense of human rights.
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(sorrowful music)
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(protesters chanting, 14)
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- I think since the war on drugs started,
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that was with Calderon.
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- [Interviewer] Which was?
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- It's already nine years.
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- [ Interviewer] 150,000
people disappeared,
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- More
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- [Interviewer] Disappeared.
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- No killed.
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- [Interviewer] Killed.
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- Killed, assassinated, hanged.
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- [Interviewer] Since
the war on drugs began.
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- 88 journalists killed.
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15 only the last three years
in the state of Vera Cruz
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with governor Javier Duarte.
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These numbers, how do you manage this?
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- The pseudo president that doesn't want
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to engage with his people.
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The pseudo president that tries
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to make the already disappeared disappear.
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- It's not his fault.
It's years of problems,
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but he's doing nothing to help.
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And since he is in power, there
have been far more killings.
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And he never talks about that.
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It took him weeks to talk a little bit
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about the 43 disappeared students.
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It was like an absent power.
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I cannot imagine a real
leader of a European country,
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not acknowledging, not 43
students, one student disappeared.
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I cannot imagine,
disappeared by the police.
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I cannot imagine not acknowledging.
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- It's gotten worse.
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And every time that I hear
about another person dying
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in Mexico and the impunity that follows,
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it just reminds me of my cousin
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and the fact that he's no longer here.
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And the person or the
people who murdered him
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have never been caught.
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- [Narrator] John Ackerman,
an expert in corruption,
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electoral transparency, accountability,
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and citizen participation,
arrives in London.
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Invited by Justice Mexico Now
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to speak with Amnesty
International UK and Jeremy Corbyn.
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- [Jeremy] Case of 43 students is just
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the tip of the iceberg.
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An indication of a broader
crisis in the rule of law.
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- I feel like I never
believed that he was dead.
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- We can't let the 43 students
be forgotten on the one hand,
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on the other hand, it's
not just them, the 43,
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it's hundreds of thousands
more that have disappeared
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that have been killed.
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(indistinct)
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(suspenseful music)
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- He's tried to make us all forget
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about the 43 and the
20,000 other disappeared,
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and the hundreds of thousands dead
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and all of these people that
are buried underneath our feet
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in Mexico that we don't
even know about yet.
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- The moment that for
me changed everything
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also because I was not in
Mexico, I read it on the news
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and I didn't know how to confirm this.
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It was reading on the human
heads that were thrown
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on the dancing floor of
a nightclub in Mexico.
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And I couldn't understand that.
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That was when I started painting about it.
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I painted for about five, six years
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about the organised crime.
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In 2010, when the independence
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on the revolution celebrations
where I have a Mexican flag
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and in the middle of where
the Eagles should be,
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I have like a gangster,
like a strong man with a gun
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and with drinks and the gold.
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And I thought this is
going to be the symbol.
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This is part of the nation now.
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The organised crime. And the drug cartels
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are part of the nation.
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You don't know anymore
who's good and who's bad.
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What was it? What was the post you did?
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Was it 1400 beheaded in
Mexico? In how many years?
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1700? The post for today, 1700 or 1400?
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- [Respondent] 1700. In Mexico
in the last seven years.
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- It's happening all the time.
It's not an isolated case.
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- First, I don't have proof
of most of things I say now,
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but it's just like, no one has proof.
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No one has proof of anything.
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No one can be punished of
anything. 43 people disappeared.
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How can you disappear 43 persons?
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(suspenseful music)
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- [Narrator] The president's
arrival in London is eminent
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and the groups organise
a conference to discuss
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the current state of Mexico
on the eve of his visit.
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John Ackerman and Jeremy
Corbyn are also in attendance.
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- I went to Mexico for a few days
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on the way back and I was astonished.
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And many of you I'm sure
would share this view
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of the see change in public opinion,
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the see change in attitudes.
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The way that students were
not prepared to be ignored.
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We're not prepared to be pushed aside
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because they were standing up for the 43
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who have disappeared and all the others
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that disappeared since then.
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And so if nothing else,
the visit of the president
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to Britain tomorrow and Wednesday
has provoked this meeting,
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has provoked a huge meeting
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we were having parliament last week,
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has provoked another seminar
itself later this week
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Has provoked a demonstration tomorrow,
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and has provoked some
understanding in the British media
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that when you do trade with people,
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you're doing trade with
people that you believe
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to be of good faith and good nature.
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- Where are his advisors?
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- Oh yeah, absolutely.
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I completely agree that his
advisors are just inept.
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But what's most likely is
his advisors aren't people
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who are professional politicians.
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They're people who, were
the son of such and such,
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they shook somebody's hand
and eventually ended up
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in the position of being
the presidential advisor.
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- They don't understand a thing.
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Having no idea about how politics work.
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(suspenseful music)
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- The visit of the president
is part of this Mexico UK year.
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And I'm pretty sure that both
the governments of Mexico
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and the UK would rather
that we were talking
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about privatisation of the oil industry.
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We're talking about
construction contracts.
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We're talking about trade
deals, and we're talking
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about privatisation of
public services in Mexico.
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I want the visit to
concentrate on human rights.
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I think trade should be linked
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to anti-poverty strategies
and to human rights.
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Trade isn't a box to be put over here
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and human rights to be
put in a box over here.
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The two things ought to be
linked, and they could be linked.
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- [Narrator] Mexican activist groups
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and concerned citizens come together
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to protest outside Downing street against
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the UK state visit of Mexican
president Enrique Pena Nieto.
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- We're trying now to deliver
the letter to Calderon.
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- [Producer] What letter is that?
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- It's a letter we wrote
from Mexican groups
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around the United kingdom.
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They arranged that we
were going to be received.
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I mean, not Calderon personally,
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but someone would receive the letter,
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but now they don't know anything about it.
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- [Producer] What's
contained in the letter?
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- The letter is making him
aware of all the things
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that had been happening in Mexico.
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All the lack of civil rights.
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- [Producer] You don't
think he's already aware?
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- Hm?
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- [Producer] You don't
think he's already aware?
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- Apparently not, otherwise
they wouldn't welcome him
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and make all kinds of
commercial treaty with him.
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It's our duty to make him
aware. To be sure he's aware.
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And make sure all the commercial
contacts they also know.
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Only together we can achieve something.
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So in the visit too, I think the support
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that Amnesty International
UK has been giving us.
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Or John Ackerman, in the same sense,
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also, Jeremy Corbyn is incredible.
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It's makes us feel stronger.
And it feeds itself.
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When we do like the demonstration
we did in Downing street,
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in Mexico they know about it.
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That makes him feel
that there is more sense
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to what's happening there.
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And for us to know it makes sense.
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It's just very important
because for so many people
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in Mexico there is just no voice.
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No voice of what's been happening.
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How can people here
imagine all these families
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where one or more members of the families
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have been disappeared or killed?
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How would you feel if it's
been five years, or three years
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or two years, and you don't know anything
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about one of your relatives?
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(suspenseful music)
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- A British accented,
Mexican guy doing a video
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where he's decapitating a Mexican.
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You don't have a British accented hostage
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being decapitated in Mexico you get that?
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(mariachi music)
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- [Producer] Jeremy Corbin, do you think
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that he's interventions are really...
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- Yeah. He doesn't come as a person
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who changes ideas from one day to another.
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He supports fairness and justice.
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As long as he sees
injustice, either in Mexico
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or another country, i think
he will keep on doing it.
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And he knows he has firsthand information
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about what's happening in Mexico.
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And that's, if more people
in England who have a voice
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would know exactly what's
happening and then we'll spread.
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And then only that way,
someone like Pena Nieto
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wouldn't come here with
saying like everything is okay
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and I'm selling you the oil and that's it.
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- I have a very strong theory
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on why The Guardian didn't cover it.
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And it was nothing to do with
them, with the conspiracy.
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- They complained before.
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- Yeah. It was just the
fact that they don't think
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it's interesting to
their readership. Yeah.
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And it's true. If you look
at what the British public
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are talking about or what
the articles that they share
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on social media, et cetera,
it's all Middle East,
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and maybe a little bit
of Africa during Ebola,
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but not as much as Middle East.
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Mexico doesn't really register of that.
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- [ Female Respondent]
It's not tragic enough.
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- South America much less.
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- No, it's not about whether
there's tragic enough.
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If you put the right spin
on it is tragic enough.
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It's just about whether it's of interest.
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Right now, British interests
are in the Middle East.
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Breely, that's what British
troops are being sent.
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The British troops
suddenly being sent Mexico,
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then you'd see a lot of
coverage about themselves.
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- [Female Respondent] Oh
then we will be very worried.
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- But yeah that's what I'm saying.
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Everything about the state visit was more
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for the Mexican public than
it was for the British public.
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- [Respondent] Yeah.
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- British public could not have cared less
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about Mexico's presidents coming.
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- [Producer] If you could get
an audience with Pena Nieto,
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what would you say to him right now.
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- Well, someone told him already,
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and I think it was the poet, Cecelia.
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He told him you have no heart.
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And that's what I feel about him.
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That he has no heart.
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To allow things that are
happening, even if maybe as we,
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many of us think that he
has his hands already tied
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because of all the links he
did before getting into power.
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And now it shows no heart.
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And I think he even answered said,
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"how can you say I have no heart?".
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But I still think he has no heart.
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(suspenseful music)
510
00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:47,950
- Mexico is one of the
most dangerous countries
511
00:27:47,950 --> 00:27:50,900
in the entire world for journalists,
512
00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:54,493
for human rights activists, for
social movements in general.
513
00:27:57,638 --> 00:28:00,270
And there's a combination
between exclusion
514
00:28:00,270 --> 00:28:01,220
from the mainstream media.
515
00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:04,730
The mainstream media is
controlled by two corporations,
516
00:28:04,730 --> 00:28:05,850
two television corporations.
517
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:08,100
And the other hand, anybody who speaks up
518
00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:10,303
is immediately threatened and repressed.
519
00:28:11,170 --> 00:28:13,940
I myself, have received numerous
520
00:28:13,940 --> 00:28:16,313
death threats through social media.
521
00:28:19,540 --> 00:28:20,540
And I'm the lucky one, right?
522
00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:24,480
We have dozens of journalists
who have been assassinated,
523
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,610
over the last decade in
Mexico, and who are on the run,
524
00:28:27,610 --> 00:28:29,710
who have been repressed
and have been forced
525
00:28:29,710 --> 00:28:31,743
to leave their places of reporting.
526
00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:35,970
Mexico is a dangerous place
for the freedom of expression
527
00:28:35,970 --> 00:28:38,810
and journalists are at the front line.
528
00:28:38,810 --> 00:28:43,350
And that's one of the central
social actors who need support
529
00:28:43,350 --> 00:28:45,990
in order to change the Mexican system
530
00:28:45,990 --> 00:28:48,470
and actually advance towards democracy.
531
00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:49,930
- [Narrator] Five months
after John Ackerman
532
00:28:49,930 --> 00:28:52,650
was filmed speaking to us
in the House of Commons
533
00:28:52,650 --> 00:28:55,870
just 11 months after the
43 Ayotzinapa students
534
00:28:55,870 --> 00:28:57,193
were forcibly disappeared,
535
00:28:58,290 --> 00:29:02,220
a Proceso Magazine photo
journalist, and four women,
536
00:29:02,220 --> 00:29:04,540
including an activist were viciously
537
00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:05,783
attacked in Mexico City.
538
00:29:07,993 --> 00:29:09,760
(gentle music)
539
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,530
- This came very close to home
540
00:29:14,570 --> 00:29:16,820
and for many people in different ways.
541
00:29:16,820 --> 00:29:21,820
So Mexico city was called a
safe Haven for journalists
542
00:29:24,170 --> 00:29:25,863
where they would be safe.
543
00:29:27,365 --> 00:29:31,570
It's not only a city where more
than 20 million people live,
544
00:29:31,570 --> 00:29:33,410
but it is the centre of economic
545
00:29:33,410 --> 00:29:35,740
and political power in Mexico.
546
00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:40,740
And normally drug dealers and
other criminal organisations,
547
00:29:42,340 --> 00:29:45,830
including politicians make like a pact
548
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:47,700
that the city is safe,
549
00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:50,550
particularly certain areas of the city.
550
00:29:50,550 --> 00:29:53,050
- And we obviously need
to get alarmed especially
551
00:29:53,050 --> 00:29:55,720
when it's a freedom of
expression being threatened.
552
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,130
Allegedly and most
definitely it was ordered
553
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:03,403
by a state governor in Veracruz, Duarte.
554
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,610
From what we can see from the analysis
555
00:30:06,610 --> 00:30:09,540
that the media has made
and the various threats
556
00:30:09,540 --> 00:30:14,090
that this journalist and
the activist had suffered.
557
00:30:14,090 --> 00:30:17,350
But taking that out of context,
558
00:30:17,350 --> 00:30:19,243
the fact that they were journalists,
559
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,686
Mexico city isn't a safe place either.
560
00:30:23,686 --> 00:30:25,660
(dramatic music)
561
00:30:25,660 --> 00:30:28,840
So we should be shocked
but we shouldn't be shocked
562
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,700
at the fact that, that
happens all the time.
563
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:33,990
But we need to be shocked
if you know what I mean.
564
00:30:33,990 --> 00:30:37,210
It might sound contradictory,
but we need to be shocked
565
00:30:37,210 --> 00:30:38,970
at every single death that happens
566
00:30:38,970 --> 00:30:42,940
and we shouldn't be
desensitised about what happens.
567
00:30:42,940 --> 00:30:44,990
- Because it came very close to home.
568
00:30:44,990 --> 00:30:48,320
It happened in a city
where it hasn't experienced
569
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,950
the killing of people in daylight.
570
00:30:52,950 --> 00:30:56,573
This happened on a Friday
between 2:00PM and 3:00 PM.
571
00:30:58,110 --> 00:31:00,683
Not in the outskirts,
not in the periphery,
572
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:03,634
in the centre of the city.
573
00:31:03,634 --> 00:31:06,990
(suspenseful music)
574
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:08,993
I think in addition,
575
00:31:13,630 --> 00:31:15,563
learning that women were raped,
576
00:31:18,250 --> 00:31:20,083
that they were tortured.
577
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,603
And then given the teeth of the
grass, the shot in the head.
578
00:31:27,470 --> 00:31:32,250
Imagining what kind of
people can actually do that.
579
00:31:36,290 --> 00:31:40,393
Seeing that being part of
it, inflicting all that pain,
580
00:31:41,570 --> 00:31:44,210
probably listening to them screaming,
581
00:31:44,210 --> 00:31:48,480
or begging for mercy for an hour.
582
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,658
What kind of people can do that?
583
00:31:50,658 --> 00:31:52,680
(suspenseful music)
584
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,380
- We are not going to let
you tell us that this was
585
00:31:56,380 --> 00:31:59,010
a robbery or that this was a party
586
00:31:59,010 --> 00:32:00,980
and well, something went bad
587
00:32:00,980 --> 00:32:04,140
and they raped and killed everyone.
588
00:32:04,140 --> 00:32:05,210
That doesn't happen.
589
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:10,210
We know that these people
were threatened in Mexico,
590
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,200
in the state of Veracruz.
591
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,002
And we know that these killings
are for political reasons.
592
00:32:16,002 --> 00:32:19,913
- You know, not like, at
point you, cause I know you,
593
00:32:19,913 --> 00:32:23,730
but I will point what
you're playing the percent
594
00:32:23,730 --> 00:32:28,710
is that in the lowest part
of the chain of corruption,
595
00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:33,710
you are in there protecting,
trying to save all these,
596
00:32:35,510 --> 00:32:37,840
and I'm gonna say like this,
all these mother fuckers,
597
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,052
who are destroying and
killing people right now.
598
00:32:41,052 --> 00:32:44,860
Are destroying and killing,
communities, entire communities,
599
00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:47,720
in East North by crime organised.
600
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,340
The crime organised is being organised
601
00:32:49,340 --> 00:32:51,370
by the same government.
602
00:32:51,370 --> 00:32:55,290
- I formed this collective,
we call it, The Platform
603
00:32:55,290 --> 00:32:58,638
called 'Plataforma Trienta
y Nueve'. Platform 39.
604
00:32:58,638 --> 00:33:00,160
(gentle music)
605
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,660
39, because that's the
article in our constitution,
606
00:33:03,660 --> 00:33:05,760
which was one of the most
progressive constitutions
607
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,810
in the early 20th Century in the world.
608
00:33:08,810 --> 00:33:13,520
And this article says that,
unlike, for instance, in the UK,
609
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,060
that the sovereignty
resides on the queen, right?
610
00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:20,650
Or in the royal family, the
same in France, same in Spain.
611
00:33:20,650 --> 00:33:23,683
In Mexico, the sovereignty
resides in the people.
612
00:33:24,570 --> 00:33:28,410
And the people have the right to modify
613
00:33:28,410 --> 00:33:31,410
or change the way they're being governed.
614
00:33:31,410 --> 00:33:32,803
It's a fabulous article.
615
00:33:34,030 --> 00:33:39,030
So we took that article and
we decided enough is enough.
616
00:33:39,070 --> 00:33:42,540
We need to change. It's a
right. We are the suffering.
617
00:33:42,540 --> 00:33:44,210
- If you look at the Mexican constitution
618
00:33:44,210 --> 00:33:46,870
and many of you here I'm sure
read it in far more detail
619
00:33:46,870 --> 00:33:50,300
than I have, you see a
document that is very good.
620
00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:53,460
You see a protection of
the secretary of state.
621
00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:56,540
You see a protection of
the rights of assembly.
622
00:33:56,540 --> 00:34:01,040
You see a legal system that is,
to all intents and purposes,
623
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,500
entirely separate from
the political system.
624
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,800
And you'll see a political
system that doesn't allow
625
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,440
immediate re-election to the same place
626
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,460
in order to protect deputies
against being corrupted
627
00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:14,710
and enticed into high office.
628
00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:17,770
The reality of that of
course is very different.
629
00:34:17,770 --> 00:34:20,490
- So I think there is one problem,
630
00:34:20,490 --> 00:34:24,310
which is that we probably as a democracy
631
00:34:24,310 --> 00:34:25,970
arrived at the first step.
632
00:34:25,970 --> 00:34:29,650
Only the first step,
which is having elections.
633
00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:31,950
Having a political party
system, where people
634
00:34:31,950 --> 00:34:34,680
have options to choose from.
635
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,767
The reality is that theory says that,
636
00:34:37,767 --> 00:34:41,450
that's one of seven steps
of a real democracy,
637
00:34:41,450 --> 00:34:42,660
and we don't move from there.
638
00:34:42,660 --> 00:34:44,900
In fact, we're going backwards.
639
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:45,970
- And this is what's happening.
640
00:34:45,970 --> 00:34:48,320
And I say to them, and this is not it.
641
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,510
The country has this
terrible human rights record.
642
00:34:52,510 --> 00:34:55,990
And I want you to know that,
because probably the image
643
00:34:55,990 --> 00:34:58,220
that you get as a bridge with Mexico
644
00:34:58,220 --> 00:35:01,950
is a beautiful country
with amazing beaches,
645
00:35:01,950 --> 00:35:03,410
amazing people, amazing food.
646
00:35:03,410 --> 00:35:05,503
But actually this is what is happening.
647
00:35:06,830 --> 00:35:09,890
- Reports have just come
out from the government
648
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:12,170
saying that compared to 20 years ago,
649
00:35:12,170 --> 00:35:14,293
we have 2 million poor people.
650
00:35:15,470 --> 00:35:20,140
So basically half of the
population is in poverty.
651
00:35:20,140 --> 00:35:23,190
2 million, more than 20 or 30 years ago.
652
00:35:23,190 --> 00:35:25,493
So we haven't addressed
anything like that,
653
00:35:27,130 --> 00:35:28,593
but we produce millionaires.
654
00:35:29,510 --> 00:35:31,900
Not only Carlos Slim is very often
655
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,510
the number one billionaire in the world.
656
00:35:34,510 --> 00:35:37,050
But we produce through privatisation
657
00:35:37,050 --> 00:35:40,890
through the luck of government regulation.
658
00:35:40,890 --> 00:35:43,500
We produce a lot of very wealthy people.
659
00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,200
- I mean, the majority of
people have very few rights.
660
00:35:47,350 --> 00:35:49,790
The people in poverty is just millions
661
00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:52,690
and millions of people
who are most of them
662
00:35:52,690 --> 00:35:56,993
from indigenous, who Spanish
is their second language.
663
00:35:58,210 --> 00:36:00,510
And if you see what kind
of schools they have,
664
00:36:00,510 --> 00:36:02,160
how many hours the children have to walk.
665
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,860
- One is the nature of our democracy.
666
00:36:03,860 --> 00:36:06,740
But also I think we have
for the last 30 years
667
00:36:07,670 --> 00:36:12,130
with a promise of becoming
a first world country,
668
00:36:12,130 --> 00:36:15,530
particularly joining them in North America
669
00:36:15,530 --> 00:36:16,830
in a free trade agreement.
670
00:36:16,830 --> 00:36:18,863
And that was Salinas period.
671
00:36:21,170 --> 00:36:23,550
We were supposed to get rid of poverty
672
00:36:27,076 --> 00:36:30,832
and under development
Mexico, and the rest of it.
673
00:36:30,832 --> 00:36:33,120
A lot of policies were implemented.
674
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,273
We had reforms of every
aspect of Mexican life.
675
00:36:39,380 --> 00:36:42,290
And the results so far
has been disastrous.
676
00:36:42,290 --> 00:36:45,380
- Human rights crisis
across the whole region
677
00:36:46,768 --> 00:36:50,040
and the desperation of those
people just to try to get
678
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,090
to the USA in order to
survive and live illegally
679
00:36:54,090 --> 00:36:56,860
in the USA in order to
try and send money home
680
00:36:56,860 --> 00:37:00,877
is an indication of just how
serious the economic crisis is,
681
00:37:00,877 --> 00:37:03,960
the poverty crisis is and
the human rights crisis
682
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,470
that goes with it.
683
00:37:05,470 --> 00:37:07,740
It cannot be just a national issue.
684
00:37:07,740 --> 00:37:11,670
It is an international
issue for a lot of reasons.
685
00:37:11,670 --> 00:37:15,010
- The Mexican government
is not a good government
686
00:37:15,010 --> 00:37:17,600
that is fighting the organ, the bad guys,
687
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,180
the organised crime that is the bad guys,
688
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:21,780
but they are the organised crime.
689
00:37:21,780 --> 00:37:24,263
And the Mexican government is so corrupt.
690
00:37:25,758 --> 00:37:27,550
So the elite, that if they say,
691
00:37:27,550 --> 00:37:29,360
well no it's the organised crime.
692
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,773
They are actually saying it was us.
693
00:37:32,970 --> 00:37:37,593
And when people try to
organise and try to think,
694
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,820
try to reveal the truth
of what's happening.
695
00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:47,350
They are touching really powerful people.
696
00:37:47,350 --> 00:37:51,320
So these people that are
searching for bodies and trying
697
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,200
to find the disappeared are
actually not only trying
698
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,760
to find the disappeared,
but trying to find the truth
699
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,160
of what's happening and that's something
700
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,743
that the Mexican government
doesn't want people to know.
701
00:38:03,743 --> 00:38:04,840
(gentle music)
702
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,840
- So the concentration of wealth
is happening in the world,
703
00:38:12,550 --> 00:38:14,380
but in Mexico is very acute.
704
00:38:14,380 --> 00:38:17,870
So we are producing again, I think
705
00:38:17,870 --> 00:38:22,000
there are 20 to 30 families
that basically control
706
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,560
everything that happens in Mexico.
707
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,880
And they have all the lobbying power
708
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,880
and they decide basically
which laws are approved or not.
709
00:38:32,460 --> 00:38:37,460
And the political class
wants to be part of that,
710
00:38:38,430 --> 00:38:43,430
let's say 1% and also very much
tied to economic interests.
711
00:38:44,330 --> 00:38:48,150
- And in his year, he's
trying to give the appearance
712
00:38:48,150 --> 00:38:50,410
that Mexico is a very nice
country they are trying
713
00:38:50,410 --> 00:38:52,180
to protect human rights,
714
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:56,143
meanwhile all the community start dying.
715
00:38:57,282 --> 00:39:01,060
And all the representation
of the government
716
00:39:02,111 --> 00:39:07,111
is spending tonnes of money,
tonnes of pounds here,
717
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,040
weeks just a week before, two weeks before
718
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:17,040
in all this events 2000 pounds
in flowers to demonstrate.
719
00:39:22,066 --> 00:39:23,813
(narrator laughs)
720
00:39:23,813 --> 00:39:25,188
(indistinct)
721
00:39:25,188 --> 00:39:28,355
20,000 pounds in flowers just to prove
722
00:39:30,185 --> 00:39:35,185
to the companies of UK, that
Mexico is a place to invest.
723
00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:39,651
They are selling our
country and they're using
724
00:39:39,651 --> 00:39:41,820
tonnes of money to give that face.
725
00:39:41,820 --> 00:39:43,440
- Lupita, we saw you on the channel,
726
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,810
I don't remember which channel it was,
727
00:39:45,810 --> 00:39:49,270
and I was like in a way it was good,
728
00:39:49,270 --> 00:39:52,380
but all of that mattered to
them was that they saw you.
729
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,047
They didn't care, they didn't ask me like,
730
00:39:56,047 --> 00:39:58,943
"Oh, what is that you're doing
in which collective are you?"
731
00:39:58,943 --> 00:40:00,840
They didn't care, no.
732
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,093
So in a way it's good that we're reaching,
733
00:40:04,478 --> 00:40:07,965
it still obviously needs a
bit of waking up of people.
734
00:40:07,965 --> 00:40:10,630
(protesters chanting 17, 18, 19)
735
00:40:10,630 --> 00:40:12,810
- I think it is important
what Mexican people
736
00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:13,990
outside Mexico can do.
737
00:40:13,990 --> 00:40:15,980
I think it's very important.
738
00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:18,300
- The situation, Pena
Nieto and all the situation
739
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:21,247
have really united us Mexicans here.
740
00:40:21,247 --> 00:40:23,997
(dramatic music)
741
00:40:30,679 --> 00:40:34,440
In London, the groups in
Manchester, in Sheffield,
742
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:39,210
we are all so near to each other.
743
00:40:39,210 --> 00:40:40,513
We keep informed.
744
00:40:41,535 --> 00:40:46,535
We become friends and sometimes
with difficult moments.
745
00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:51,100
- Talk in a coherent fashion, right?
746
00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:55,860
There's no point in going out
to an embassy and shouting
747
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,143
at somebody in Spanish when
we live in the UK, right?
748
00:41:01,210 --> 00:41:04,150
The message needs to be
clear in a place like this.
749
00:41:04,150 --> 00:41:07,870
It needs to be an English
and it needs to be obvious.
750
00:41:07,870 --> 00:41:10,530
Just shouting out
Ayotzinapa means nothing.
751
00:41:10,530 --> 00:41:12,540
- I thought just being so far away.
752
00:41:12,540 --> 00:41:15,250
Being safe here is a very big weapon.
753
00:41:15,250 --> 00:41:16,510
We can say whatever we think
754
00:41:16,510 --> 00:41:18,360
and nothing is going to happen to us.
755
00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:21,560
I think that was the biggest weapon
756
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,370
that we have access to social media.
757
00:41:23,370 --> 00:41:25,720
We can keep shouting.
758
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:30,720
- When I came here, soon
after Pena Nieto as we know,
759
00:41:34,270 --> 00:41:37,400
kicked out from the
University Panamerican,
760
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,120
and that was when the group
Ciento Treinta en Ingles
761
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,650
was born in Mexico city.
762
00:41:41,650 --> 00:41:46,320
And very much right
away started popping up
763
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,440
all these different cells
in Mexican universities
764
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,453
and also was the one in London.
765
00:41:53,910 --> 00:41:56,460
And we did a lot of things,
a lot of demonstration,
766
00:41:57,565 --> 00:42:00,450
but it didn't have that
essence that later became
767
00:42:00,450 --> 00:42:04,743
after the disappearance of
the 43, it was just automatic.
768
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,170
We saw it, we knew this was impossible.
769
00:42:09,170 --> 00:42:13,470
This was something that was
to be, not to be together.
770
00:42:13,470 --> 00:42:16,010
That's when I discovered
all the other groups.
771
00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:19,990
- This flag, de luto started to appear
772
00:42:22,490 --> 00:42:24,573
in Mexican streets in Mexico city.
773
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,180
Particularly in the
protests after Ayotzinapa.
774
00:42:30,450 --> 00:42:34,663
And I think it's a really
important sign that,
775
00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:41,690
the entire country is mourning.
776
00:42:41,690 --> 00:42:45,060
We're mourning the hundreds of people,
777
00:42:45,060 --> 00:42:48,030
hundreds and thousands of
people that have been killed.
778
00:42:48,030 --> 00:42:50,890
We're mourning communities
that are devastated.
779
00:42:50,890 --> 00:42:55,660
We are mourning or we are missing
780
00:42:55,660 --> 00:42:58,943
many tens of thousand
that are disappeared.
781
00:43:00,872 --> 00:43:03,872
(suspenseful music)
782
00:43:11,582 --> 00:43:15,174
- We will not be allowed to
hijack the president's agenda.
783
00:43:15,174 --> 00:43:18,174
(suspenseful music)
784
00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:22,394
The red carpet that has been rolled out
785
00:43:22,394 --> 00:43:25,870
for Enrique Pena Nieto in
this country is only red
786
00:43:25,870 --> 00:43:28,270
because it is tainted and stained
787
00:43:28,270 --> 00:43:30,840
with the blood of Mexican people.
788
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,262
- (protestors shouts) Yes.
789
00:43:34,262 --> 00:43:37,262
(suspenseful music)
790
00:43:45,542 --> 00:43:46,630
- Gives hope to people who are over there,
791
00:43:46,630 --> 00:43:49,600
and think that Mexico is on its own
792
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,500
and the Mexicans having
to fight for themselves.
793
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:55,680
What they're seeing from us,
794
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,650
even though we're also Mexicans,
795
00:43:57,650 --> 00:43:58,776
what they're seeing from us
796
00:43:58,776 --> 00:44:00,640
is that people in another country care.
797
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,860
People in another country
care enough to get angry
798
00:44:03,860 --> 00:44:06,390
and to go out and protest
and shout and sing songs,
799
00:44:06,390 --> 00:44:08,040
demonstrate, and everything else.
800
00:44:09,044 --> 00:44:12,630
(protestors chanting 22, 23, 24)
801
00:44:12,630 --> 00:44:14,420
- Am proud of everyone that's here today.
802
00:44:14,420 --> 00:44:16,050
Proud of the demonstration we've heard.
803
00:44:16,050 --> 00:44:18,900
We are never gonna
forgive, forget or give up.
804
00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:20,984
We'll take the issue to Geneva.
805
00:44:20,984 --> 00:44:23,694
(protestors cheering)
806
00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:26,190
We'll take the issue
the human rights court.
807
00:44:26,190 --> 00:44:29,100
We'll take the issue
wherever it can be taken to.
808
00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:33,260
To show that people hear the
voice of those that want peace,
809
00:44:33,260 --> 00:44:36,270
want justice, let's look for support
810
00:44:36,270 --> 00:44:40,150
and forever remember
the bravery of the 43.
811
00:44:40,150 --> 00:44:41,150
Thank you very much.
812
00:44:43,504 --> 00:44:46,504
(suspenseful music)
813
00:44:57,510 --> 00:45:01,210
- Was there any change or
any difference to Mexicans?
814
00:45:01,210 --> 00:45:02,520
What we did, you think there was
815
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,187
any consequence of what we did?
816
00:45:05,192 --> 00:45:06,660
There were enough articles,
817
00:45:06,660 --> 00:45:08,904
so only the alternative
media covered those actually.
818
00:45:08,904 --> 00:45:09,737
- [ Female Respondent] Yeah.
819
00:45:09,737 --> 00:45:11,420
- But we are not the only ones.
820
00:45:11,420 --> 00:45:14,070
This is just an example
because in Austria,
821
00:45:14,070 --> 00:45:16,610
there are groups, in
Madrid there are groups,
822
00:45:16,610 --> 00:45:19,493
in New Zealand there
are groups of Mexicans,
823
00:45:21,596 --> 00:45:25,480
and non Mexicans who are united trying
824
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,481
to make a better Mexico.
825
00:45:28,481 --> 00:45:32,510
And even I think for
those who are not in touch
826
00:45:32,510 --> 00:45:35,340
with what Mexico is it's just realising
827
00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:38,090
about injustice in other countries.
828
00:45:38,090 --> 00:45:39,820
- Their reality is completely different.
829
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,580
I think now people atleast care.
830
00:45:41,580 --> 00:45:44,580
Now the buyer lens is extremely high.
831
00:45:44,580 --> 00:45:47,390
Like last six months,
I have received calls
832
00:45:47,390 --> 00:45:49,910
from Mexican people asking for information
833
00:45:49,910 --> 00:45:51,680
of how to seek political asylum
834
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,710
or humanitarian protection in the UK.
835
00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:55,283
That never happened before.
836
00:45:56,790 --> 00:46:00,300
It's just really sad,
but a few Mexican people
837
00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:02,560
call me saying, I'm here,
and I don't want to go back
838
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,930
to Mexico because they're gonna kill me.
839
00:46:04,930 --> 00:46:08,570
You wouldn't think that, British
people and European people
840
00:46:08,570 --> 00:46:11,350
don't think of Mexico that way.
841
00:46:11,350 --> 00:46:13,875
(suspenseful music)
842
00:46:13,875 --> 00:46:15,260
But they are killing people.
843
00:46:15,260 --> 00:46:18,960
- Immigration is increasing
because people from Mexico
844
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,850
are living whether middle class,
845
00:46:20,850 --> 00:46:22,430
whether low class to the U S.
846
00:46:22,430 --> 00:46:23,970
Whether middle class to Europe,
847
00:46:23,970 --> 00:46:26,006
whether high class to Europe.
848
00:46:26,006 --> 00:46:28,510
- Look at the real facts on the ground
849
00:46:28,510 --> 00:46:30,513
of what is happening in Mexico.
850
00:46:31,510 --> 00:46:36,210
2000 police forces in 32 different States,
851
00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:38,060
many of whom never speak to each other,
852
00:46:38,060 --> 00:46:39,620
and don't talk to each other.
853
00:46:39,620 --> 00:46:41,710
Many of whom are deeply corrupt,
854
00:46:41,710 --> 00:46:44,269
very violent and very unpleasant.
855
00:46:44,269 --> 00:46:48,940
(protestors chanting 20, 21, 22, 23)
856
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:52,876
- Mr. Pena Nieto despite the
fact that we made a request
857
00:46:52,876 --> 00:46:56,830
through parliament has refused
to come out and face us.
858
00:46:56,830 --> 00:47:01,666
And will continue to do so
for the duration of his stay.
859
00:47:01,666 --> 00:47:04,416
(dramatic music)
860
00:47:10,166 --> 00:47:12,749
(gentle music)
861
00:47:17,882 --> 00:47:20,965
(orchestral playing)
862
00:47:30,122 --> 00:47:33,860
(saxophone playing)
863
00:47:33,860 --> 00:47:38,761
- The circumstances are such
that at least at the very least
864
00:47:38,761 --> 00:47:40,520
they should be international condemnation
865
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,270
at the level of the United Nations.
866
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,490
As it was with the
regime of Saddam Hussein,
867
00:47:45,490 --> 00:47:48,010
as it was with the Taliban,
868
00:47:48,010 --> 00:47:51,893
there are enough
circumstances to basically,
869
00:47:54,270 --> 00:47:56,250
and even if you go to South Africa
870
00:47:57,970 --> 00:48:02,970
and how apartheid finished,
it was of course Mandela
871
00:48:04,822 --> 00:48:06,872
and key people that were in the forefront
872
00:48:09,069 --> 00:48:11,653
of a movement that said, this is not okay.
873
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,110
Apartheid, this is a system
that belongs to another era
874
00:48:16,110 --> 00:48:17,560
and we need to get rid of it.
875
00:48:19,010 --> 00:48:23,670
But it was not until the
international community decided
876
00:48:24,506 --> 00:48:27,990
to locate, to make an economic sanction
877
00:48:30,870 --> 00:48:33,630
and break relationships with
the state of South Africa
878
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,493
that apartheid collapsed.
879
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,140
The European Union should
880
00:48:39,140 --> 00:48:41,343
stop having commercial relationships.
881
00:48:43,620 --> 00:48:46,060
The US won't do it because not only
882
00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:48,910
we have a North American trade agreement,
883
00:48:48,910 --> 00:48:52,053
which is hurting the
poor in all the region,
884
00:48:53,870 --> 00:48:57,623
but mostly benefiting corporations
and most are US-based.
885
00:48:58,630 --> 00:49:01,620
But also it's a very complex relationship
886
00:49:01,620 --> 00:49:06,470
because they supply all the
weapons, both to the police,
887
00:49:06,470 --> 00:49:10,540
to the military and to the drug dealers.
888
00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:12,942
They consume most of the drugs.
889
00:49:12,942 --> 00:49:16,847
- The heavily financed war on
drugs in Colombia, in Mexico,
890
00:49:16,847 --> 00:49:20,140
and all the other countries
has been such a disaster
891
00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:23,080
for the human rights of the
people within the region.
892
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,750
And has actually benefited those that sell
893
00:49:25,750 --> 00:49:28,328
the arms and the surveillance equipment
894
00:49:28,328 --> 00:49:29,920
that the police and other forces have used
895
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,730
and has resulted tragically
in so many deaths.
896
00:49:32,730 --> 00:49:37,230
- I would expect even with decent people
897
00:49:37,230 --> 00:49:41,110
like Obama would say, I
think he's trying his best.
898
00:49:41,110 --> 00:49:44,240
Again they have also systemic issues
899
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:46,053
that limit the capacity to act.
900
00:49:48,482 --> 00:49:51,620
- Establishment of government's
powerful interests.
901
00:49:51,620 --> 00:49:53,850
There's lots of talk about
North America as a region.
902
00:49:53,850 --> 00:49:58,850
It sounds all nice. What this has led to ,
903
00:49:58,990 --> 00:50:00,840
one would hope that this could lead to,
904
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,650
the expansion of human
rights concerns to Mexico,
905
00:50:03,650 --> 00:50:06,840
but the fact behind this legal
system to the Mexico system,
906
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,700
but not to the country.
907
00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:10,260
What we're having simultaneously
908
00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:14,150
with the process of entrenched
authoritarianism in Mexico,
909
00:50:14,150 --> 00:50:17,290
we've had a release of
pressure from United States
910
00:50:17,290 --> 00:50:22,290
towards Mexico in exchange
for basically NAS security
911
00:50:23,030 --> 00:50:24,380
and the governments concerns,
912
00:50:24,380 --> 00:50:27,990
everything from oil to
anti-terrorism that kind of stuff.
913
00:50:27,990 --> 00:50:30,540
So as long as the Mexican
government behaves itself
914
00:50:32,502 --> 00:50:34,840
on the strategic lines
set up by Washington,
915
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:36,976
nothing is demanded from Mexico.
916
00:50:36,976 --> 00:50:39,559
(upbeat music)
917
00:50:50,548 --> 00:50:52,070
- But then unfortunately the people
918
00:50:52,070 --> 00:50:55,000
that are paying attention
to these media channels
919
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,720
are the ones that are the usual suspects.
920
00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:00,010
The ones that are usually
concerned about what's happening.
921
00:51:00,010 --> 00:51:01,960
- [Male Respondent] Yeah. You're
preaching to the converted.
922
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,100
- What she is talking
about is what we wanted.
923
00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:07,630
We wanted that to occur. We
wanted people that don't care
924
00:51:07,630 --> 00:51:10,860
about what happens in,
well don't care about
925
00:51:10,860 --> 00:51:14,850
what really affects
Mexico to pay attention
926
00:51:14,850 --> 00:51:16,223
to what's affecting Mexico.
927
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,350
I think people in my
circle, I can only speak
928
00:51:20,350 --> 00:51:24,220
about people in my
circle when I was there.
929
00:51:24,220 --> 00:51:26,460
They know about situations.
930
00:51:26,460 --> 00:51:28,890
I'm not talking about Mexicans
931
00:51:28,890 --> 00:51:33,090
who live a comfortable and crusty life,
932
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:36,760
I'm talking about working class
Mexicans who live in states,
933
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,525
what you call states
here, Councillor States.
934
00:51:39,525 --> 00:51:43,789
(foreign language spoken)
935
00:51:43,789 --> 00:51:44,622
Work very hard and they know
about the situation in Mexico,
936
00:51:46,700 --> 00:51:49,490
but they are tired of it.
937
00:51:49,490 --> 00:51:53,480
And they only want to talk about
things to a certain extent.
938
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,330
- No, we keep talking about
it constantly outside Mexico.
939
00:51:58,470 --> 00:51:59,640
Like things that happen in Mexico,
940
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,490
that here we keep sharing and talking
941
00:52:01,490 --> 00:52:03,560
and we just don't let them die,
942
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,730
like the 43 students kind of thing.
943
00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:08,170
In Mexico is kind of
people little by little
944
00:52:08,170 --> 00:52:11,120
forget about it because the
media doesn't talk about that.
945
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,130
They talk about how
amazing is their president.
946
00:52:14,130 --> 00:52:17,456
And how beautiful it is the first lady.
947
00:52:17,456 --> 00:52:19,420
And how amazing they looked
when they were in England.
948
00:52:19,420 --> 00:52:21,290
How beautiful she looked
when she was in Spain,
949
00:52:21,290 --> 00:52:23,700
but they really don't talk about,
950
00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:26,070
all these people that's been
killed and things like that.
951
00:52:26,070 --> 00:52:27,873
- It definitely did have an impact,
952
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,530
and that shouldn't be forgotten.
953
00:52:30,530 --> 00:52:34,200
But what we have to
remember is that at first,
954
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:35,972
the people who are responding to us
955
00:52:35,972 --> 00:52:38,000
are the ones that were
already on our side.
956
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,473
- How cruel people can be.
957
00:52:41,350 --> 00:52:45,083
How someone can think of doing this.
958
00:52:45,930 --> 00:52:49,180
How some people, because
there had to be quite
959
00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:52,730
a few people killing
them or disappearing them
960
00:52:52,730 --> 00:52:56,230
or vanishing them or
whatever they did with them.
961
00:52:56,230 --> 00:53:00,693
How so many people have no heart?
962
00:53:01,696 --> 00:53:02,610
(boys laughing)
963
00:53:02,610 --> 00:53:04,323
What happened with the country?
964
00:53:05,934 --> 00:53:08,290
- It is perfectly reasonable and right.
965
00:53:08,290 --> 00:53:10,470
And indeed it's the right thing to do
966
00:53:10,470 --> 00:53:14,370
to insist that any trade deals
that are done have with it
967
00:53:14,370 --> 00:53:18,040
an absolute commitment to the
improvement of human rights,
968
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,000
to the independence of judiciary,
969
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,080
to a police force that is
accountable not unaccountable
970
00:53:24,195 --> 00:53:26,695
and an end to the
disappearances and the killings.
971
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,133
- A young father of 21 just went.
972
00:53:32,024 --> 00:53:34,857
(sorrowful music)
973
00:53:41,144 --> 00:53:42,311
It's personal.
974
00:53:45,830 --> 00:53:48,233
This is personal.
975
00:53:49,644 --> 00:53:51,530
How many families, how can you grow that?
976
00:53:51,530 --> 00:53:55,763
How can this child who
never sees his father again?
977
00:53:55,763 --> 00:53:57,460
I mean the child, the baby,
978
00:53:57,460 --> 00:53:59,693
whose going to be with him when he's 20?
979
00:54:01,110 --> 00:54:03,133
What kind of country are they creating?
980
00:54:04,350 --> 00:54:05,650
How much evil can they be?
981
00:54:06,540 --> 00:54:09,500
It's just impossible.
It's just not credible.
982
00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:12,500
(suspenseful music)
983
00:54:21,887 --> 00:54:25,050
- You just keep doing different
events going here and there
984
00:54:25,050 --> 00:54:27,710
every time something happened in Mexico
985
00:54:27,710 --> 00:54:29,958
don't just be quiet do something.
986
00:54:29,958 --> 00:54:32,456
(drumming sounds)
987
00:54:32,456 --> 00:54:35,123
(piano playing)
988
00:54:39,221 --> 00:54:42,910
- Informing the UK and the UK
government and the UK press
989
00:54:42,910 --> 00:54:44,210
that they aren't complying with that ,
990
00:54:44,210 --> 00:54:46,283
is to show that the government
is lying and not keeping up
991
00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:49,870
with these commitments because
at the moment, as its clear,
992
00:54:49,870 --> 00:54:52,250
Mexico wins the media war in the UK
993
00:54:52,250 --> 00:54:54,650
in the terms of presenting
itself as the victim
994
00:54:54,650 --> 00:54:58,140
of organised crime not
as a participant in that.
995
00:54:58,140 --> 00:55:00,210
And so until that evidence
and that information
996
00:55:00,210 --> 00:55:02,480
is in the public domain
to show that really
997
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:05,750
the human rights discourse
is just skin deep
998
00:55:05,750 --> 00:55:07,390
then things won't change.
999
00:55:07,390 --> 00:55:11,050
- The assassination of Ruben
Espinosa and the various
1000
00:55:11,050 --> 00:55:16,040
other journalists that have
been killed in recent years,
1001
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,937
specifically since 2011,
the Regina Martinez
1002
00:55:18,937 --> 00:55:20,870
and many others I can't even name
1003
00:55:20,870 --> 00:55:23,380
because I can't even
remember their names anymore.
1004
00:55:23,380 --> 00:55:28,380
You ask me, one of the names
of the 43 disappeared students
1005
00:55:28,470 --> 00:55:31,290
and embarrassingly I
wouldn't know one name
1006
00:55:31,290 --> 00:55:35,790
because it's just a list of
names after names after names
1007
00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:38,100
of disappeared people and killings.
1008
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:41,353
- I think that whoever is
behind these killings is afraid.
1009
00:55:42,310 --> 00:55:44,640
Is afraid of losing their power.
1010
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,650
They find these activists, these victims,
1011
00:55:47,650 --> 00:55:49,800
because they end up
being victims a threat.
1012
00:55:51,029 --> 00:55:52,000
(dramatic music)
1013
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,020
But really what they are
is they're not a threat,
1014
00:55:56,020 --> 00:56:01,020
they're hope, they are
new energy for change.
1015
00:56:01,527 --> 00:56:03,463
And that is what needs to prevail.
1016
00:56:06,100 --> 00:56:08,033
- In fact, the only thing we can do,
1017
00:56:09,690 --> 00:56:12,430
is inspire other people.
1018
00:56:12,430 --> 00:56:14,840
That's the only thing we can do.
1019
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:18,064
- I think still there are
more good people than bad.
1020
00:56:18,064 --> 00:56:20,814
(dramatic music)
1021
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:24,830
- I think the groups in Britain
have achieved a great deal.
1022
00:56:24,830 --> 00:56:25,730
They've done two things.
1023
00:56:25,730 --> 00:56:29,310
They've kept the flame of
hope alive of what happened
1024
00:56:29,310 --> 00:56:33,810
to the 43 by constantly
arriving at any big public event
1025
00:56:33,810 --> 00:56:36,460
like here today at the
Hackney Half Marathon,
1026
00:56:36,460 --> 00:56:40,430
just to show people that
none of us are gonna forget.
1027
00:56:40,430 --> 00:56:41,920
And when the families of the 43
1028
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,540
or some of the families visited Britain,
1029
00:56:43,540 --> 00:56:46,040
they got a very good
reception from everybody.
1030
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,665
But it's also done, of
course, is taking the lid off
1031
00:56:50,665 --> 00:56:52,700
the very difficult human rights situation
1032
00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:56,527
that tens of thousands,
more that fazed in Mexico.
1033
00:56:56,527 --> 00:57:00,550
The 43 are a symbol of what's happened,
1034
00:57:00,550 --> 00:57:03,640
but all the other
disappearances are so serious.
1035
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,790
And it's that, which has meant
that in parliament many MPS,
1036
00:57:07,790 --> 00:57:10,890
are much better informed
of the situation in Mexico.
1037
00:57:10,890 --> 00:57:12,812
We've had meetings with
the foreign office,
1038
00:57:12,812 --> 00:57:13,950
we've had meetings with
the European Union.
1039
00:57:13,950 --> 00:57:15,968
We've put a lot of pressure on
1040
00:57:15,968 --> 00:57:17,884
and we're gonna continue doing that.
1041
00:57:17,884 --> 00:57:21,384
(foreign language spoken)
1042
00:57:26,168 --> 00:57:29,680
(protesters chanting 37, 38, 39)
1043
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:30,890
I think it's very important,
1044
00:57:30,890 --> 00:57:32,160
I think all the Mexican people
1045
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,676
outside Mexico should keep talking.
1046
00:57:34,676 --> 00:57:39,676
(protesters chanting
40, 41, 42,43 justice)
1047
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,350
- [Narrator] Under
suspicious circumstances,
1048
00:57:54,350 --> 00:57:56,910
only two bones from one of the 43 students
1049
00:57:56,910 --> 00:57:59,830
have ever been found and later identified
1050
00:57:59,830 --> 00:58:01,677
by international forensics.
1051
00:58:01,677 --> 00:58:04,510
(sorrowful music)
1052
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,460
In February 2016, another journalist
1053
00:58:24,460 --> 00:58:25,883
in Vera Cruz was murdered.
1054
00:58:26,740 --> 00:58:28,880
Her body was found hanging from a tree,
1055
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,090
partially clothed with a
plastic bag over her head.
1056
00:58:32,090 --> 00:58:35,210
During the making of this
documentary in the UK,
1057
00:58:35,210 --> 00:58:38,660
Jeremy Corbyn was appointed
leader of the Labour Party.
1058
00:58:38,660 --> 00:58:40,770
- [Representative] It's
not the official delivery,
1059
00:58:40,770 --> 00:58:45,180
but Jeremy Corby asked us to
make this symbolic delivery
1060
00:58:45,180 --> 00:58:47,031
in this day because Jeremy Corbyn,
1061
00:58:47,031 --> 00:58:49,630
the leader of the labour
party cannot come today.
1062
00:58:49,630 --> 00:58:53,210
So we read the letter and
the embassy will receive
1063
00:58:53,210 --> 00:58:55,690
the official letter,
but this is just a copy.
1064
00:58:55,690 --> 00:58:58,201
Thank you very much for receiving it.
1065
00:58:58,201 --> 00:58:59,034
- Thank you too.
1066
00:58:59,034 --> 00:58:59,867
- [Representative] Do
you have anything to say
1067
00:58:59,867 --> 00:59:02,455
on this anniversary of 43?
1068
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:04,455
(foreign language spoken)
1069
00:59:04,455 --> 00:59:06,980
But do you have anything
to say to Mexicans
1070
00:59:06,980 --> 00:59:09,900
and people that love Mexico here?
1071
00:59:09,900 --> 00:59:11,551
(foreign language spoken)
1072
00:59:11,551 --> 00:59:13,339
- [Representative] No comment.
1073
00:59:13,339 --> 00:59:14,337
(indistinct)
1074
00:59:14,337 --> 00:59:17,267
(foreign language spoken)
1075
00:59:17,267 --> 00:59:18,788
- [Representative] No comment.
1076
00:59:18,788 --> 00:59:20,240
(foreign language spoken)
1077
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,407
(protesters chanting)
1078
00:59:29,221 --> 00:59:32,221
(fast upbeat music)
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