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Why we say #YaMeCanse (Ya Me Cansé)

Thousands of people in Washington D.C. and in cities across the United States will demonstrate on Tuesday January 6 to voice their opposition to President Obama’s meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto and to the United States’ ongoing military aid and assistance to the Mexico’s security forces, which are now proven to be perpetrating massive human rights violations, including the September kidnapping. Demonstrators will march in front of federal buildings and other locations in their respective cities.

“President Peña Nieto’s security forces are responsible for what is hands-down the worst human rights crisis in all of Latin America and deserves our denunciation, not our tax dollars or political support,” said Roberto Lovato, one of the co-founders of the all-volunteer campaign #USTired2, which is coordinating the January 6 national day of action.  “Two years into his administration, it’s now abundantly clear that instead of ‘saving Mexico,’ Peña Nieto and his failed policies are destroying Mexico to the point where it is disgraceful that our President is even meeting with a Mexican Administration that, under US law, should have its funding cut for massive human rights violations. How many US-funded massacres will it take before Obama and Congress shift course on Mexico?”

The all-volunteer campaign #USTired2 is a broad and diverse network of communities connected to Mexico. #USTired2 emerged as the English-language counterpart to the #YaMeCansé campaign that has swept Mexico, as its citizens have risen up to declare that they are tired of the state violence, human rights abuses and widespread impunity – all aided by U.S. tax dollars.

...In Mexico, over 100,000 people have been murdered and more than 25,000 have gone missing over the last decade, many thousands of whom were killed by the same security forces our US tax dollars are helping to pay for. A substantial proportion – perhaps a majority – of this violence has been perpetrated by Mexican security forces, which are widely known to collaborate with the narco-traffickers. The cornerstone of “Plan Mexico” is the multi-billion dollar Plan Merida, a security aid program implemented in 2007, which President Obama has promised to continue “indefinitely.”

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