FRIDAY, MAY 22.
PROGRAM # 7527 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
The host comments on the adolescents who killed a 6-year-old child in Chihuahua and the social and economic violence in which they live, and a children’s rights advocate laments that the government is reducing the response to the case to the responsibility of the police. This edition also includes live interviews with the husband and attorney of Nestora Salgado, coordinator of community police in Olinalá, an indigenous town in Guerrero, who is now imprisoned in a high-security prison in Tepic, about the assassination this week of her father-in-law, Eladio Ávila Pérez, and the long fast and possible relocation of Nestora to a prison in Mexico City. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City.
Guests: José Luis Ávila, husband of Nestora Salgado, Seattle, Washington; Alejandra Gonza, director of the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Washington School of Law, former attorney for the Interamerican Human Rights Court, Seattle, WA, www.freenestora.org; Alicia Vargas Ayala, member, Network of Organizations for Children’s Rights, Mexico City (pretaped).
Photo: Judith Garcia/Flickr
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