THURSDAY, JULY 9.
PROGRAM # 7561 12:00 PM PT
Migrants Turned Political Prisoners.
In separate ways, two former U.S. residents returned to their native Mexico to fight drug cartels and corruption and ended up persecuted and in jail. They are now widely seen as political prisoners. This program revisits the case of Nestora Salgado, who recently ended a month-long hunger strike protesting prison conditions and now faces three new charges. It also reports about Dr. Manuel Mireles, whose citizen uprising in Michoacan is the focus of a documentary that opens this week in movie theaters in Mexico and the US.
Guest: Dr. Manuel Mireles Valencia, Dr. Manuel Mireles son, Michoacan; Ismael Cortes, Supporter of Michoacan’s Political Prisoners, Stockton, CA; Jose Luis Avila, Nestora Salgado’s husband, Seattle, WA; Leonel Rivero, Nestora Salgado’s Lawyer, Mexico City.
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