"Vivos" is a film about the pain and ongoing struggle of the families of 43 Mexican students who disappeared in 2014 in Ayotzinapa. However, it is also about the role of the State in enforced disappearances in Latin America.
Recent elections in Georgia and the US show that elections alone are poor indicators of democracy, and need to be supplemented with other methods of economic and political empowerment.
Belarusian journalist Yan Auseyushkin was arrested and imprisoned while covering the country’s pro-democracy protests. Inside the prison system, he saw beatings, humiliation and ill treatment.
Macron’s shift to the right appears to have been a long time coming. But recent events show how quickly a slide towards authoritarianism can take place.
“ The capital had offered two buildings, large enough to give emergency accommodation for all, if the central government would only cough up… No such luck. Bayrou never got asked about that.”
