A Familiar Anger Begins to Boil Again in Mexico

This entry was posted on 11.19.14, in Campus Life, Global, Legal, Postsecondary, Students. Bookmark the permalink.

The fate of 43 college students missing and presumed killed and burned to ashes in a mass abduction in September has bred ire and indignation in many corners of Mexico.

Spectators held up posters with the faces of the students at a soccer match last week between Mexico and the Netherlands.

Thousands of demonstrators, mostly teachers and students and young sympathizers, have poured into the streets of Mexico City and have blocked major intercity highways, while setting fires that damaged the door to the national palace in Mexico City and regional political party offices and the state congress building in Guerrero, where the students attended school.

And social media has lit up with related hashtags, including #YaMeCansedelMiedo (“I am tired of fear”), a play on a remark by the attorney general who cut off a question at the end of an hourlong news conference on the students’ case by saying, “Ya me cansé” — “I’m tired now.” (He later defended the remark by saying that he was tired because he had not slept in over 40 hours.) <Read more.>

Via Randal C. Archibold, The New York Times.