In New York City, dozens of people protested outside the United Nations Saturday to demand the United States stop funding Mexican police and security forces, amid a series of cases of forced disappearances and the repression of social movements. The actions were organized by the Caravan Against Repression in Mexico, which included a teacher from Oaxaca, where police killed nine people at a teachers’ protest in June; two mothers of the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College; and Eduardo García Maganda, a student who survived the 2014 police attack on the Ayotzinapa students in Iguala.
Eduardo García Maganda: “We believe it’s very significant to be here in New York, because the majority of the militarization projects, the transfer of funding and arms, come from the United States. It’s pitiful that many North Americans, including Mexicans who are residents on this side of the border, don’t know that their taxes are paying for a war in Mexico that has claimed more than 100,000 deaths and about 28,000 disappearances.”