On the Inside: The Detention Center Where Most Immigrants Have Died – In a little more than 4 months, two Mexican immigrants died in detention centers in Arizona. In May, 31-year-old Jesús Deniz-Sahagun died in Eloy, and in September, 39-year-old Juan García Hernández died in Florence. These deaths are focusing attention again on the complaints of many detainees in the immigration system of this border state. Many have called for better healthcare and an end to punishment for those who file complaints of abuse. Valeria Fernández visited the detention center in Eloy, Arizona, where there have been more deaths in the last decade than in any other center in the country. Valeria has the story of two detainees.
Mothers of Disappeared Students Call on Pope – It has now been a year since 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College in southern Mexico went missing. On the first anniversary of the disappearance of their children, a group of Ayotzinapa mothers made their voices heard at the end of a speech by Pope Francis in Philadelphia. Chelis López, host of Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta program, spoke with one of the mothers, Blanca Luz Nava Vélez, about what the group was asking of the Pope.
China and the U.S. Agree to Work on Climate Change – After a meeting at the White House, the leaders of the biggest world economies, President Obama and China’s president Xi JinPing, announced agreements to urgently address climate change. Among the highlights was the announcement by the president of China that in less than two years he would start a vast program to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement made headlines, since it is coming from a country named as the biggest polluter in the world. On Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta, our news director Samuel Orozco asked Linda Escalante, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, to put this news into perspective.
