First Posted: May 11, 2021 06:18 AM EDT
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Mexico City once again witnessed hundreds of demonstrators gather for the annual Mother s Day march. This year, they demand the authorities to look for their missing children.
Individuals who participated in the march chanted slogans asking where their children were, emphasizing that their mothers are looking for them.
The said march is an annual event in Mexico City that happens every May 10, the day they celebrated Mother s Day. Based on the information gathered by the Mexican government, not less than 80,000 individuals have gone missing since the drug war in the country, which started in 2006.
Mexico apologizes to the Maya
On the 120th anniversary of the the final battle of the ‘War of the Castes,’ the government says sorry for centuries of exploitation and discrimination
MEXICO CITY, AP
Mexico on Monday marked the anniversary of a 1901 battle that ended one of the last indigenous rebellions in North America, by issuing an apology for centuries of brutal exploitation and discrimination. Monday’s ceremony was held in the hamlet of Tihosuco in the Mayan township of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, the headquarters of the rebellion. It comes amid broader commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the 1519 to 1521 Spanish conquest of Mexico, and 200 years of Mexico’s 1821 independence from Spain.