Ayotzinapa Cover-Up
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Peniley Ramírez, award-winning journalist and executive producer of Investigates and Special Projects for Futuro Unidad Hinojosa, to discuss the aftermath of her decision to publish an unredacted report on the investigation of 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College in Mexico. They get into the new revelations found in the report, and the pushback Peniley has received online and from the Mexican government for releasing it.
ITT Staff Picks:
Peniley Ramírez writes about the unredacted report on the Ayotzinapa case, and what it tells us about the Mexican army’s role in covering up the events, in this piece for Latino Rebels.
Arturo Conde writes about the parents and family members still seeking answers and justice eight years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, via NBC News.
Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Kate Doyle get into what has happened with the Ayotzinapa case since their in-depth investigation, from Reveal.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte
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| 0:32.5 | The most horrifying details of a heavily public interest case, like this one, are the ones |
| 0:41.7 | that will remain in people's minds. |
| 0:47.4 | From futuro media and PRX, it's in the thick of podcasts about politics, race, and culture. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm Maria Gnojosa. |
| 0:54.8 | And I'm Hulu Rikaloarela. |
| 0:56.4 | And yes, there is a tone of seriousness in my voice because we're talking about something |
| 1:00.6 | really serious with a pretty extraordinary journalist joining us from Harlem, New York City |
| 1:06.0 | is Benile Ramirez. |
| 1:08.0 | She is an extraordinary journalist that happens to be the new executive producer of our very |
| 1:13.9 | own futuro investigates and special projects unit. |
| 1:18.4 | So she's a new futurista, hey, Benile, welcome back to in the thick and officially, welcome |
| 1:25.5 | to futuro. |
| 1:26.5 | Hello, Julio and Maria, and thank you for having me. |
| 1:31.4 | So all of the reporting that Benile does, the body of her work as a Cuban born and then |
| 1:36.7 | Mexico city-based journalist, goes really deep. |
| 1:41.4 | So the story that we're talking about today and why we're doing kind of our own breaking |
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