Mexico: protests link Ayotzinapa, Ferguson, Garner | World War 4 Report

11.12.14

Mexico: protests link Ayotzinapa, Ferguson, Garner | World War 4 Report: The protest "is a community effort by Mexicans living in the US [to show] that we don't want our tax money to finance the Mexican government, which is corrupt," Karla de Anda, one of the organizers of the protest in Miami, told the Associated Press wire service. "They're giving [Mexican authorities] money for arms," US writer and activist Roberto Lovato said at a New York vigil. "They're giving armament for disappearing people, for creating mass graves." Signs at the various protests called for an end to "Plan Mexico," comparing the M�rida Initiative to the bloody US-funded Plan Colombia of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The US has given Mexico $1.2 billion under the initiative, according to Maureen Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).