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Gael and Diego bring attention to impunity in Chihuahua

07:48 H | Topics: Activism - Celebrities - Justice - Mexico

Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal has joined forces with his buddy actor Diego Luna in a crusade to bring attention to human rights offenses and impunity in Mexico, namely in Ciudad Juarez and the Mexican state it calls home, Chihuahua.

Gael and Diego have been working on a documentary called “Doble injusticia: feminicidio y tortura en Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua” ("Double injustice: feminicide and torture in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua"), and say it's time to "stand up to impunity".

The documentary was produced with the help of the Mexican Commision for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights and the international non-profit Witness. According to Mexico's Milenio, the film

"narrates the story of Nerya Cervantes, who disappeared in 2003 and that of David Meza, her cousin, who was tortured so that he would implicate himself of Neyra's murder, one the many that occur in Chihuahua."

Diego and Gael shared the film with a select group of people in Mexico City this weekend -- at a dinner which cost about $300 per head -- but left out invites to politicians. According to the actors, only one public official was invited (the head of the Human Rights Commission) and snubbed the others because the event "wasn't to see them but to share with socially responsible people the state of human rights."

Via / Milenio

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