EVENT DATES:
- September 23: Open exhibit at Rayburn House Office Building First Floor Foyer, all day
- September 23: Public Reception at Rayburn House Office Building First Floor Foyer, 5 pm
- September 24: Public Roundtable Discussion, GWU Textile Museum, 10 am
- September 25: Public Event and Discussion, Busboys and Poets K Street Location, 5 pm
PRESENTED BY:
The Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWGEF)
In partnership with:
National Security Archive
Amnesty International
Global Exchange
Empty Graves, Empty Promises: A Photographic Journey into Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis and the Role of the U.S.
Washington, DC – On the week of the tenth anniversary of the most recognized disappearance case in Mexican history, the case of 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWGEF) invites the public to Empty Graves, Empty Promises: A Photographic Journey Into Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis and the Role of the U.S. A photographic tribute to the over 116,000 victims of enforced disappearances in Mexico since 1952, this exhibit tells the story of those disappeared and those tirelessly searching for them.
Empty Graves, Empty Promises features fifteen photographs of families and survivors of the disappeared in Veracruz, Mexico, taken by survivor and artist Manuel Bayo Gisbert. Learn about the links between disappearances, organized crime, and the U.S.-Mexico human rights dynamic through the photographs of Bayo Gisbert, the testimonies of Antonio Tizapa and María de Jesús Salinas, both parents with missing children, and the experience of Omar Gómez Trejo, former prosecutor of the Ayotzinapa case.
Read about Amnesty International’s September 4th letter to President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on human rights violations, including forced disappearances.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tania Del Moral, Program Assistant (tdelmoral@lawg.org)
Vicki Gass, Executive Director (vgass@lawg.org).
About the LAWG: The Latin America Working Group mobilizes concerned citizens, organizations, and networks to call for just U.S. policies towards Latin America and the Caribbean. We educate the public about the impact of U.S. foreign and immigration policy and advocate before the U.S. Congress and the executive branch. We work closely with civil society partners in Latin America to support their human rights campaigns and make sure their voices are heard in the policy debates that take place in Washington, D.C. but shape the lives of millions throughout the region.
