Portside

One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t have a body to mourn,” a father said of his son, one of the missing students. “I have nothing to hold that is him.”

While protestors in Mexico have amplified their demands, multiple protests have been organized abroad in more than fifty countries. One of the largest and most notable is in United States, known by the hashtag #USTired2. The protests were organized in November to coordinate nationwide protests on Dec. 3 in support of the Ayotzinapa families. The #USTired2 protests are geared toward pressuring the U.S. government to end Plan Mexico, the bilateral security aid package...