Arrogant Mexican President Attacks Trump: “America First” is “a Fallacy” and US is Country Where Immigrants Face “Mistreatement, Abuse, Persecution”

Arrogant Mexican President Attacks Trump: “America First” is “a Fallacy” and US is Country Where Immigrants Face “Mistreatement, Abuse, Persecution”

Let's talk about the plight of Black people in Mexico:

2016: MEXICO FINALLY ADMITS IT HAS BLACK CITIZENS, WHOM IT HIDES IN "PUEBLOS NEGROS" - SPECIAL TOWNS JUST FOR BLACK PEOPLE

Last month, for the first time ever, the Mexican government recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey. The survey served as a preliminary count before the 2020 national census, where “black” will debut as an official category. 

“We have been working for twenty years without much government response, so the events of the past year have been huge progress for us,” Peñaloza told The Huffington Post on the phone from his home in Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero. 

Cuajinicuilapa is one of the major pueblos negros, or black towns, of Mexico. It’s also at the center of the “Costa Chica,” the southwestern states of Guerrero and Oaxaca where the Afro-Mexican population is concentrated (the nation’s capital has a smaller black population than you’d think). 

So, from a distance, México Negro campaigned for recognition by INEGI, the census agency that did the initial count of Afro-Mexicans, and CONAPRED, the National Council for Preventing Discrimination.