FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21
PROGRAM # 8809 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
After the heinous feminicide of a young woman at the hands of her husband and the murder at another point in the same city of Mexico of a seven-year-old girl who was sexually abused, groups of women have held demonstrations in the capital. In addition, in repudiation of gender-based violence, a national strike is promoted through social networks. The call, says President López Obrador, is opportunistically manipulated by his political opponents and by the conservative right. “Be careful: don’t forget what they did with the protests in Chile to prepare the coup against President Allende,” said the Mexican president. In addition, relatives of the miners who were trapped since 2006 at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila, report that thanks to the will of President López Obrador, in October the excavation work could begin, to rescue the skeletal remains of the workers who were buried there 14 years ago. The bereaved also asked that the government should cancel the concession to mining company Grupo México to extract coal and be held responsible for the facts. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this program from Mexico City.
Guests: (prerecorded segments) Mrs. Trinidad and Mrs. Elvira Martínez, family workers buried in the Pasta de Conchos mine, Coahuila; Mr. Erick “N”, husband of Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, woman murdered in Mexico City; (recorded interviews) Cristina Auerbach, activist of the Pasta de Conchos Family organization; Lázaro Delgado Alfaro, rescue worker and mining worker.
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