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Parents of students protest in front of military headquarters in Mexico
September 22 |
Fathers, mothers and relatives of the missing normalista teachers in Ayotzinapa in September 2014 along with students from a rural school in the state of Guerrero, set up a protest camp on Thursday in front of Military Camp 1, in Mexico City, capital of the country.
Sources close to the protesters revealed that the concentration could remain in place until next Monday, when a meeting is scheduled at the Ministry of the Interior (Interior Ministry), or until Tuesday, the day that commemorates nine years since the disappearance of the 43 students.
The plaintiffs set up a tent where they will be camping in front of this complex as an expression of their demand to the Army of the North American country to deliver the necessary information to find the whereabouts of the more than 40 missing students.
Mario González, father of César Manuel González, one of the 43 missing students, stated: “We are at the Campo Militar 1 battalion, where the information of all the battalions of the country is located.”
“They are nothing more than criminals, cowards with weapons”, sentenced the father, in clear reference not only to the events of September 26, 2014, but to the whole installation of elements to protect the Army facilities where they arrived that includes barbed wire, barricades and hundreds of armed soldiers.
This 2023 will commemorate the ninth anniversary of the event that generated one of the most emblematic cases in the judicial history of Mexico, treasured as a great pending issue by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promised to resolve it before the end of his term (October 2024).
Last Wednesday, the relatives met with the President and when leaving the meeting they explained their demand that the Army should finish providing the necessary documentation on the case in order to find the whereabouts of the students once and for all.
The relatives were disappointed by the president’s refusal, who assured that all the information had already been handed over, although they claim the existence of these missing documents in what was handed over by the Army to the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) created by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The GIEI recently withdrew from the country because it was unable to make progress in the investigations due to the obstacles imposed by the lack of collaboration of the Armed Forces in the investigation. The Truth Commission classified the event as a “State crime” due to the participation of authorities at all levels, including the Armed Forces.
The government of López Obrador has repeatedly denied the accusation made by supporters of former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and has defended the so-called “historical truth”, which maintains that corrupt police detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered and incinerated them in the Cocula landfill.
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Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer amid coup conviction
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer while serving a historic sentence for attempting a coup d’état. His medical team confirmed that the lesions have been removed and that, for now, he does not require further procedures, though he will need regular monitoring.
On Wednesday, September 17, Bolsonaro’s doctors confirmed the diagnosis. The announcement comes shortly after the former leader was convicted of orchestrating an attempted coup.
According to his physician, Claudio Birolini, Bolsonaro has “squamous cell carcinoma, which is neither the most benign nor the most aggressive form — it is intermediate.” Birolini warned, however, that this type of skin cancer “can carry more serious consequences.”
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Milei praises Paraguay’s growth, calls Argentina’s last 20 years a ‘decline’
Argentine President Javier Milei praised Paraguay’s economic growth over the past two decades during a speech before the Paraguayan Congress on Wednesday (Sept. 17, 2025), crediting it to incentives that favored capitalism. At the same time, he contrasted that progress with what he described as Argentina’s deepening “decline” during the same period.
“If we compare the last 20 years of Paraguay with those of the Argentine Republic, we will find almost diametrically opposite results,” Milei told lawmakers during a special session of Parliament on the second and final day of his official visit to Asunción.
“While you have not stopped growing, we have deepened our decline. If we understand incentives as the engine of capitalism, Paraguay focused on preserving and strengthening them, while Argentina dedicated itself to chaining, directing, and suffocating them,” the right-wing leader stated.
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Trump administration launches large-scale immigration operation in Chicago
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a large-scale immigration operation in the Chicago area with the arrival of additional Border Patrol agents on Tuesday and the presence of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem during a raid.
Noem posted a video on her X account showing the immigration operation, in which DHS reportedly removed “violent criminals” from the streets. The footage shows Noem observing the arrest of a man taken into custody at his home early Tuesday morning at an undisclosed location.
“I was in Chicago today to make it clear that we will not back down,” the secretary wrote. “Our work is just beginning,” she added.
The warning from Noem was echoed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Chief Gregory Bovino, who posted a video on X Tuesday showing multiple Border Patrol vehicles arriving in the city with the caption: “Chicago, we are here!”
Bovino, who led the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles implemented since last June, said the team will remain in Chicago to continue the mission they started in California.
Operation “Midway Blitz” is currently focused on the Chicago metropolitan area and its suburbs. Activists and residents have reported sightings of masked agents and unmarked vehicles in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.
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