Interviews from Mexico - Forced Disappearances

Interviews from Mexico, hosted by Laura Carlsen, goes straight to the source -- the men and women making news and making history in Mexico and throughout the region. Today's program "Not Dead or Alive: Forced Disappearances in Mexico" looks at one of the most important and long standing human rights violations in Mexico, more recently highlighted and brought to the attention of world public opinion by the case of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. Carlsen interviews journalist Federico Mastrogiovanni, author of the book "Not or Alive". Mastrogiovanni discusses his own interest in the issue; the link between violence, the presence of natural resources, and the practice of forced disappearance and its relation to the ties between organized crime, transnational corporations, and the State; the wound that never heals and the crime that never ends and its effect on the families involved; the emblematic case of Alan Israel Ceron Moreno, who was kidnapped in 2011 by organized crime and disappeared in government custody; and the campaigns in civil society around the question of forced disappearances. teleSUR