Episode #11

We’ll visit the forensic institute of Guerrero to look for a missing son, we see if Padre Fili can establish a side hustle with a Mezcal brewer for his human rights organization Centro Minerva Bello. We learn about the connection of the violence in Guerrero to drug trafficking in the US and about the connection of illegally exported weapons from Germany to the missing 43. And Padre Fili will reveal his secret: how to talk to Narcos.

Along the way we will talk to Guadeloupe the psychologist and Hegel the human rights lawyer in Fili’s team.

Guadeloupe says: I love working with kids because kids are still shape-able, they are so innocent. All they give to you in their being is pure, no filter. Adults often have their way of living and their world view. They don’t want to change much she says even though they are suffering. With kids it’s easier to help them have a better live.

Hegel says: Of course I cannot solve the problem of the violence here. It’s way to huge. I don’t have the power to do anything close to solving the problem. The only thing I can do is defending human rights for the people I work with. This is better than to stay silent and become complicit. And who knows one day I will become a victim of the violence here or somebody from my family and then I hope somebody is doing the same for me.

And you? What do you say? Tell us! We are really curious: radio.utopistan@posteo.de or @radio_utopistan

CREDITS
Executive producers: @_charlotte.horn and @christinafeemoebus
Host: @elisabeth_weydt
Music: Robert Pilgram http://robertpilgram.com/
Illustration: Christine Anas https://cargocollective.com/christineanas

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MORE INFORMATION
https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/10/12/what-really-happened-to-the-43-missing-students-from-ayotzinapa/
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/20/mexico-violence-gangs-cartels-criminal-elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/jalisco-cartel-mexico-rise-guadalajara
https://www.bpb.de/internationales/weltweit/innerstaatliche-konflikte/54652/mexiko
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1003872834/drug-traffickers-gangs-blamed-for-violence-prior-to-mexicos-elections
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fvNLTTXbXniQBNlAo6vjW?si=Ag2yd4p5Rh6OV1_r58j2Jg&utm_source=whatsapp&nd=1