Luis Fajardo
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404 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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In Venezuela, you've got a long-ruling, well, she was vice president, now president, Delcy Rodriguez. In Colombia, you've got a president who was only inaugurated just days ago, Abelardo de la Esprilla. Yes, de la Esprilla was sworn in last Friday, actually, in the city of Cali, which is now, of course, one of the major focus points of rescue efforts because of the way the earthquake affected the city. De la Esprilla certainly sees this as a major political test
a test of leadership. And the Las Pregas government has been trying to project the impression and the image that they're reacting quickly and effectively to the earthquake, even though many of the key officials who would be in charge of a lot of the rescue activities have barely taken office, in some cases, don't even yet sworn in. So there's a lot of anxiety that this
transition would maybe make things more difficult. But at the moment, again, the impression you get from the public discussion and social media is that the people sense that there has been some response and certainly better than in the Venezuelan case.
The Ayotzinapa case, as it's known in Mexico, has been a shocking and profoundly disturbing story for more than a decade.
It happened in 2014 when 43 teacher college students from an area in rural Mexico disappeared.
Only three human remains have been discovered.
And after many twists and turns, the accepted version of events is that students run into some kind of crime organization, some local drug cartel, with cooperation from government security forces.
It's not clear if local or state or federal.
And since then, there has been a very, very long quest by the relatives of the disappeared to obtain justice, to obtain information, to obtain transparency about this case, which has been a very big scandal again for more than a decade in Mexican society.
Yes, the former governor of Guerrero State, the place where the students disappeared, he was the governor there, and he has been arrested, and he has been accused of concealing evidence, apparently of CCTV recordings, which apparently showed
the moment in which the students were taken, the course of events that led to their disappearance, is seen as a big move in the sense that a high-ranking former official is now being investigated and potentially has to respond for this.
The biggest similar case was a few years ago when the Prosecutor General of Mexico, Jesús Murillo Caram, was also charged in relation with this incident.
He's still awaiting trial.
Well, people have certainly been demanding for years transparency and accountability, and there's still a great deal of skepticism across Mexican society about how the state has reacted in this particular case.
It has taken so long.
Again, the very visible plight of the relatives of the Ayotzinapa students has left a very big impression in
public opinion.
There have been many different false leads that at one moment or another gave families hope that they would learn more about the fate of the students, of their loved ones.
There have been international experts trying to help with the investigation around that.
But I would say that overall, the feeling is of frustration from the students' families and from the public opinion in general that has seen
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