"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."

https://piedepagina.mx/2-anos-de-genocidio-un-grito-en-mexico/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX

"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."

https://piedepagina.mx/2-anos-de-genocidio-un-grito-en-mexico/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX

"Lo aquí planteado busca ayudar a entender la situación poniendo énfasis en la construcción de masculinidades crueles, bajo la idea de que no es un suceso aislado, sino que responde a un contexto y una dinámica social en donde crecen grupos como los autodenominados incels, fratría masculinista con fuerte base en redes sociales que reproduce discursos misóginos y enaltece comportamientos violentos."

https://revistacomun.com/blog/violencia-juventud-y-generonotas-sobre-el-atentado-en-el-cch-sur/

#México #CDMX

"Lo aquí planteado busca ayudar a entender la situación poniendo énfasis en la construcción de masculinidades crueles, bajo la idea de que no es un suceso aislado, sino que responde a un contexto y una dinámica social en donde crecen grupos como los autodenominados incels, fratría masculinista con fuerte base en redes sociales que reproduce discursos misóginos y enaltece comportamientos violentos."

https://revistacomun.com/blog/violencia-juventud-y-generonotas-sobre-el-atentado-en-el-cch-sur/

#México #CDMX

October 2 march results in violent clashes in the Zócalo

Initial reports from authorities indicate that five officers suffered burns and 37 officers sustained various injuries during the clashes.

https://aristeguinoticias.com/031025/mexico/marcha-por-2-de-octubre-deja-fuertes-enfrentamientos-en-el-zocalo/

#Mexico #CDMX #Tlatelolco

October 2 march results in violent clashes in the Zócalo

Initial reports from authorities indicate that five officers suffered burns and 37 officers sustained various injuries during the clashes.

https://aristeguinoticias.com/031025/mexico/marcha-por-2-de-octubre-deja-fuertes-enfrentamientos-en-el-zocalo/

#Mexico #CDMX #Tlatelolco

The main entrance to Military Camp No. 1 in Mexico City today, after a visit from normalistas and relatives of the disappeared from Ayotzinapa.

#Mexico #CDMX #Ayotzinapa #FueElEstado

"In light of the escalating violence in different parts of the country, the Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life has transformed its Mexico Chapter into a Civil Human Rights Observation Mission. This decision seeks to protect participating communities and continue accompanying Indigenous peoples and campesinos who face dispossession, militarization, and repression for defending their land.

"The mission will visit three key territories between October 3 and 10: the Yaqui territory in Sonora, the Purépecha territory in Michoacán, and finally, Mexico City. Throughout the mission, community meetings, press conferences, and direct documentation activities on violations of collective rights will be held."

https://desinformemonos.org/mision-civil-documentara-violencias-contra-pueblos-en-resistencia-en-mexico/

#Mexico #Indigenous #Sonora #Michoacán #CDMX

The main entrance to Military Camp No. 1 in Mexico City today, after a visit from normalistas and relatives of the disappeared from Ayotzinapa.

#Mexico #CDMX #Ayotzinapa #FueElEstado

This is 100% real, not fake: they are calling the camera posts 'totem poles.' The new #CDMX surveillance aesthetic is, yes, fucsia/Mexican pink, with… axolotl

Y'know what is something that I find surprisingly difficult to find in Mexico City?

Corn tortilla chips!

There's convenience stores on every street corner. In America, those shops would be like 20% tortilla chips. That has not been my finding here in Mexico City.

Is that because of American corn subsidies or something? Or are tortilla chips just not a real Mexican thing?

#cdmx#Mexico

After more than a year of reading it on-and-off, I'm almost done with El Vertigo Horizontal, a collection of essays about Mexico City by someone born there in the 1950s. It's been much harder than País sin Techo -- way more literary vocabulary (words my e-reader dictionary also doesn't know) and a less straightforward more dreamy style, which it turns out is harder to read. But it's been sweet.

#CDMX#Books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615374-el-v-rtigo-horizontal

A short piece I wrote on grief and collective memory ten years after the Narvarte murders.

"It is humbling to write these words, to contribute to a communal archive of collective memory, with the sense that I have done very little. I tried in my way to lift up the names of the five in the English language. To shout or poke or whisper that, “Hey, look over here. This too needs our care and solidarity.” If anything, it is Mirtha who has taught me how to fight for memory and how to resist through memory."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/08/05/fighting-against-forgetting/

#Mexico#CDMX

A short piece I wrote on grief and collective memory ten years after the Narvarte murders.

"It is humbling to write these words, to contribute to a communal archive of collective memory, with the sense that I have done very little. I tried in my way to lift up the names of the five in the English language. To shout or poke or whisper that, “Hey, look over here. This too needs our care and solidarity.” If anything, it is Mirtha who has taught me how to fight for memory and how to resist through memory."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/08/05/fighting-against-forgetting/

#Mexico#CDMX

Algo que escribí para conmemorar diez años desde los asesinatos de Narvarte:

"He visto cómo la presencia de la ausencia ha dejado un espacio sin llenar, un peso inquebrantable. En el mejor de los casos, lo único que he hecho es decir: 'Amiga, no tiene por qué cargar con esto sola'. Y creo que es cargando colectivamente con el peso infinito de cinco vidas robadas, con el peso de la pérdida, la injusticia, el patriarcado, la opresión del Estado y la corrupción, como forjamos la memoria colectiva, como luchamos contra el olvido y como juntos podemos caminar hacia delante con un dolor desafiante."

https://memorialnarvarte.org/luchamos-contra-el-olvido/

#México#CDMX

The always-in-crisis crisis that is Mexico's public health system is worsening. Some headlines just from today:

"Workers in the nutrition area of the Doctor Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital in the city of Oaxaca denounced that they have run out of food for more than 200 patients from various Indigenous communities in the state."

https://aristeguinoticias.com/020825/mexico/sin-alimentos-para-pacientes-en-hospital-de-oaxaca-denuncian-trabajadores/

A national march is planned on August 10 to demand medications for the treatment of cancers, of which there is a severe shortage:

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/08/02/politica/011n2pol

#Mexico#CDMX#Oaxaca

The always-in-crisis crisis that is Mexico's public health system is worsening. Some headlines just from today:

"Workers in the nutrition area of the Doctor Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital in the city of Oaxaca denounced that they have run out of food for more than 200 patients from various Indigenous communities in the state."

https://aristeguinoticias.com/020825/mexico/sin-alimentos-para-pacientes-en-hospital-de-oaxaca-denuncian-trabajadores/

A national march is planned on August 10 to demand medications for the treatment of cancers, of which there is a severe shortage:

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/08/02/politica/011n2pol

#Mexico#CDMX#Oaxaca

New translations up on @igd_news

On July 31, 2015, Alejandra Negrete, Mile Martín, Nadia Vera, Rubén Espinosa and Yesenia Quiroz were murdered in an apartment in the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City.

In the ten years since, their family members, friends, and comrades have been demanding justice and struggling to keep their memories alive. While three people have been detained for the killings, evidence ignored by the Mexico City prosecutor’s office implicates former officials of that office in the killings. It has also refused to investigate the role of the administration of Javier Duarte, former governor of Veracruz, from where Nadia, a radical activist, and Rubén, a journalist, fled fearing for their safety after receiving threats.

To mark ten years, those accompanying the families in their search for truth and justice have created a digital common archive: Memorial Narvarte. Below is a text announcing the archive along with a piece by Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo, the mother of Nadia Vera.

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX