The Murders Don't Stop: How the War on Drugs Is Responsible For Mexico's Outrageous Death Toll

The war on drugs is a war on people, where the majority of casualties are black and brown bodies.

When I first shook hands with Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval this winter outside of the Mexican Consulate in NYC, images of my one of my favorite tios sprung to mind, creating an immediate sense of kinship towards the short, mustachioed Mexican professor.  De La Cruz Sandoval, thousands of miles from his home in Ayotzinapa, Mexico where 43 of his students were forcibly disappeared by cartel gunmen and corrupt municipal officers, was doing exactly what my tio would do- travel the world in search of justice.

Sadly, his search for his missing students has uncovered more tragedy - 129 bodies unrelated to the case were recently uncovered in 60 unmarked graves across Guerrero,  the same state where the students disappeared.

Omar Garcia, one of the survivors of the attack against the...

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