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Audience commentaries

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Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita

https://www.facebook.com/Museo-Casa-de-la-Memoria-Indomita-386806111517120/

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Bordamos por la Paz

Facebook site, Bordamos por la Paz, Cancun

https://www.facebook.com/Bordamos-por-la-Paz-Canc%C3%BAn-429345653924885/

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The official website of Huellas de la Memoria

https://es-la.facebook.com/huellasmemoria/

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Translation 

‘TAMAULIPAS THE BLACK WELL OF VIOLENCE 

JACOBO GARCÍA 

Mexico is experiencing its worst wave of violence since the Revolution. In Mexico, more than 85 people are killed every day and a Mexican man disappears every eight hours without ever knowing anything about him again. Last year, 31,174 people were killed - the great majority by firearm - 6,615 more than in 2016 (an increase of 27%) and more than twice as many as eight years ago. A homicide rate of 25 per 100.00 inhabitants. The trend suggests that 2018 will support a new record. The atomization of the cartels, the arrest of leaders and the presence of the army in the streets has agitated the hornet's nest and has multiplied the number of homicides. If between 2007 and 2012, in the six years of Felipe Calderón, six Mexicans disappeared daily; in the one of Peña Nieto (2012-2018) disappeared more than double: 13 a day. Tamaulipas, in addition to registering one of the highest rates of homicides in the country, also has the first national place of missing persons. According to the last decade in Tamaulipas, almost 6,000 people and less than 200 of them.’

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Elections 2018

1st of July, biggest elections in Mexican history 

‘152 politicians killed, of which 48 were pre-candidates and candidates for popular election posts.’

https://aristeguinoticias.com/1007/mexico/152-politicos-asesinados-elecciones2018-las-mas-violentas-en-la-historia-del-pais-etellekt/

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Looking South

Memory, murals and community projects in Medellin, Colombia. 

http://www.centrodememoriahistorica.gov.co/noticias/noticias-cmh/comuna-13-y-operacion-orion

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Book and archive of pictures about ‘Bordamos por la paz’ 

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An encounter

In November of 2017, I went to an event on 'social justice through culture.' The conference was held in London at the Austrian cultural forum. It was so overwhelming and relevant for me to see that the cases to discuss injustice were in Mexico. However, it was also important to hear about the grassroots struggles, the anonymous, the female initiatives, the opportunities to build together ...

Perhaps, it was a starting point for me to consider doing research about those issues.

http://www.acflondon.org/events/social-justice-through-culture/

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Map of feminicides in Mexico

The Map of Feminicides in Mexico (MFM), the most complete and updated in the country, is a "citizen, civic, independent and open data initiative that locates coordinates and causes of feminicide since 2016." To date, it has 2,355 registered cases.

https://www.awid.org/es/recursos/mapa-de-feminicidios-en-mexico

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=174IjBzP-fl_6wpRHg5pkGSj2egE&ll=20.69127555111653%2C-107.4819231875&z=5

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Museum of Drug Policy

In November 2017, the pop-up museum of drug policy opened its doors in London. 

I did not expect to encounter such a piece about Ayotzinapa’s case. 

https://www.release.org.uk/museumofdrugpolicy

The London based artist Carrie Reichardt is behind the idea of the memorial.  

It made me think of ‘travelling memories,’ on activism across boundaries and identities, on how difficult is to translate such painful stories, on drug policies around the world!