Father of Missing Mexican Student Calls on Obama to Stop Drug War Aid
Democracy Now!
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April 8, 2015
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As parents who have traveled from Mexico cross the United States in three protest caravans, Democracy Now! speaks with two relatives of the missing students who live here in New York City: Antonio Tizapa is the father of Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño; and Amado Tlatempa is the cousin of Jesús Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa. Tizapa, who believes his son is still alive, calls on the Obama administration to stop the Mérida Initiative, the multibillion-dollar U.S. aid program used to fund the war on drugs in Mexico.

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