In These Times, 2015
It is getting harder and harder to tell the US and Mexico apart these days. Both countries’ news headlines have been dominated by stories of human rights violations by police. In the US, the police killings of multiple unarmed Black men in several states, in Mexico the police abduction and handing over to cartel gangs for assassination of 43 unarmed students, most of them indigenous. In both countries, these events made obvious the disposability of those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. In this article the authors compare the experiences of criminalization of social protest in Mexico and the USA.