Hundreds of indigenous representatives from across Mexico gathered in mid-October in San Cristobal Chiapas for the 5th meeting of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI). However, this year’s CNI wasn’t business as usual.
On the second anniversary of one of Mexico’s most brutal and mysterious mass murders in recent memory, activists hit the street once again in the country’s capital.
Protests against the Mexican government's controversial education reforms have now spread northward to the central city of Puebla, where teachers have decried police crackdowns on demonstrations in the nation's south.