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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jan 6, 2015, 06:56 PM Jan 2015

Protesters Seize Mexican Leader's Visit to Denounce US Funding of State Violence

Source: Common Dreams

Published on Tuesday, January 06, 2015

by Common Dreams

Protesters Seize Mexican Leader's Visit to Denounce US Funding of State Violence

Demonstrators and rights groups calling on U.S. president to stop funneling taxpayer dollars to fund Mexican government abuse and impunity

by Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Fed up over the state-sponsored violence and corruption done in the name of the "War on Drugs," people gathered outside the White House and Mexican consulates in a dozen cities across the U.S. on Tuesday to protest Mexican President Peña Nieto's visit.

Hundreds converged outside the White House and outside Tuesday morning where Nieto will meet with President Obama. The visit comes amidst a growing crisis in Mexico where citizens are rising up against the government and what they say is its complicity in the September 26 disappearance of 43 student teachers, among other atrocities.

The students, who hailed from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Ayotzinapa Normal School, a leftist teachers college, "have become a symbol of the over 100,000 murdered and 25,000 disappeared in the last 8 years since the escalation and increased militarization of the Drug War by the U.S. and Mexican governments," said protest organizers School of the Americas Watch.

The group says that Obama's meeting with the Mexican leader "is a shameless exhibition of the open support of Peña Nieto's Narco-Government and a slap in the face of the Mexican people in their rightful clamor for security, well-being, peace, democracy, and true justice."

Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/06/protesters-seize-mexican-leaders-visit-denounce-us-funding-state-violence

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