Taide Elena is a Grandmother Stronger Than the US-Mexico Border Wall Joseph Nevins - NACLA
go to original May 29, 2013

Taide Elena with portrait of grandson slain by Border Patrol, Nogales, Sonora. (Josh MorganTucson Weekly)

On April 10, 2013, hundreds of people gathered on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico boundary, uniting at the wall which divides Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. The occasion was a binational vigil and protest on the six-month anniversary of the killing of 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, gunned down by the U.S. Border Patrol on Oct. 10, 2012.

We protested six months without justice: six months without even knowing the names of the agent(s) who shot José Antonio from the U.S. side of the divide; six months with no charges filed against anyone in the Border Patrol by U.S. authorities; six months of grief and frustration.

But there had also been six months of struggle; six months of organizing; six months of not letting people forget. So there many of us stood on April 10, at the very spot where José Antonio died, the second large mobilization at the border wall since his death.

... Taide Elena’s grief is painfully apparent, but it is also apparent how her iron will for justice and her remarkable courage have transcended that grief. It is clear she will not rest until there is justice for her grandson, and for others who have tragically died along the border.

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