FRIDAY, APRIL 22
PROGRAM # 9601 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, a human rights pioneer and champion for the disappeared in Mexico, passed away this week at the age of 95. This program includes archival interviews featuring Ibarra’s testimony on the forced disappearance of her son Jesús, her decades-long quest to find the disappeared, and her views on political reform, the trial against a former president, the indeigenous rising and the peace talks in Chiapas, and her campaign for Mexico’s presidency. In another topic, a federal legislator from Oaxaca, home of more speakers of indigenous languages than any other Mexican state, talks about federal plans to involve Mexican public banks in the international transfer of migrant remittances to Mexican communities.
Guests: (Archival Audio Segments) Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, Human Rights Pioneer, Monterey, MX; (Audio Segment) Mexico Senator Adolfo Gómez Hernández, National Senator, Mexico City.
Photo: Marisol Benitez via Unsplash
