#Bonjour! I need the help of someone who is located in #Paris, to go into the Cimetière Montmarte and take a couple of photos for me.
The De la Cruz family tombstone is in division 21, ligne 2/65, on the Avenue Cordier. I'm happy to offer 20 EUR to anyone who can get me some good snapshots of it.
For all of you not in Paris, please boost so that this request reaches #France!
I don’t think any of us really understand how quickly collapse can happen:
> About 85% of the country expected to see highs of at least 40°C
> Almost 40% of the country’s dams below 20%
> 40% are between 20 and 50%.
> Mexico City (Population 22.51 million) forced to reduce water supply as reservoirs that feed city dry up.
> Stores running out of mineral water.
"One would think that an unprecedented category-five windstorm that flattened a resort city of one million people on Mexico’s Pacific coast might be mentioned at least below the fold of mainstream media cable and print outlets. In general, it has not."
🤦🏻♀️ The attorney general of #Texas on Wednesday defied federal officials who demanded state authorities abandon a public park along the U.S.-#Mexico border that state National Guard soldiers seized last week, setting up a legal showdown with the Biden administration over the country's immigration policies.
“Not only does it criminalize people for being #undocumented in #Texas it also encourages mass profiling of people, potentially across the entire state.”
This evening in Tixtla, Guerrero, students from Ayotzinapa detained ten members of Mexico's National Guard and burned the two pick-up trucks they were traveling in as part of protests against the police murder of Ayotzinapa student Yanqui Kothan Gómez Peralta on Thursday. The National Guard members were later released.
As the federal government resumed construction of its wall, Governor Greg Abbott is seizing the moment to demand even MORE money for his endlessly expensive #border boondoggle.
From a Mexican news source. Acapulco before and after Hurricane Otis hit, the first cat. 5 storm to directly impact a city of a million or more. #HurricaneOtis#Acapulco#México
A few photos from today's march marking nine years since 43 students from Ayotzinapa were disappeared by the state and organized crime in Iguala, Guerrero.
The march itself was massive and ideologically diverse. Full of rage, grief, and raw energy. At the same time, it was predictably restrained, despite the huge numbers and lack of police presence. That being said, it was great seeing a solid black bloc crew in action. Most surfaces that could be painted were. Perhaps the most inspiring aspect was the presence of normal school students from around the country showing up by the busload to militantly demand truth and justice for their disappeared compañeros.
Ultimately, we only marched for a couple hours and bailed before reaching the Zócalo. Bringing a ten month old to a megamarch turned out to be not the greatest parenting decision ever made. But at least he went to his first demo!
Things are escalating quickly at the #border, as the Texas governor continues to openly challenge the authority of the federal government, and the human rights of immigrants.
Two Indigenous Mazatec political prisoners from Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Herminio Monfil and Jaime Betanzos, have been ordered released after spending more than nine years in prison without trial.
Three political prisoners remain: Fernando Gavito, Alfredo Bolaños and Francisco Durán. As well as the return of dozens of displaced from the community of Eloxochitlán and an end to the political persecution of Miguel Peralta.
The attacks on the communal organization of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón have been ongoing for over a decade, overseen by the Zepeda cacique family, one of whom, Elisa Zepeda Lagunas, is currently Secretary of Women in the Oaxaca state government.
“Half of Mexico’s Congress is #female. The cabinet is #gender-balanced. And now, #women have won the primaries of the two leading political blocs—making it likely that this traditionally macho nation will elect its first female president, ahead of the United States…
#Mexico ranks fourth in the world in female participation in national legislatures, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The US ranks 71st—just below Iraq.”
In the Republican response to Biden's #StateOfTheUnion address, Senator #KatieBritt told a heart-wrenching story about a woman who was a survivor of cross-border sex trafficking, and tried to blame that horrible crime on Biden.
👉🏼#SupremeCourt allowed Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire #Texas installed on the U.S.-#Mexico border as part of an effort by the state to prevent illegal border crossings.
..Biden admin argued Texas was preventing agents from carrying out their duties.
The brief order noted that 4 conservative members of the nine-justice court would have rejected the government's request. They were Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh #legal#SCOTUS
Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
California Ph.D. student's research trip to Mexico ends in violent death: "He was in the wrong place" (www.cbsnews.com)
Authorities discovered Gabriel Trujillo's body in the state of Sonora, days after his fiancée reported him missing.