Interviews from Mexico, hosted by Laura Carlsen, goes straight to the source -- the men and women making news and making history in Mexico and throughout the region. On today’s program Carlsen interviews Pilar Noriega, a lawyer and member of the Truth Commission of the state of Guerrero. The state was a hotbed of radical opposition and vicious repression 40 years ago and still bears the scars of impunity. Noriega says that the main conclusion of the Truth Commission regarding state crimes committed in what is known as the “Dirty War” between 1969 and 1979 was that the repression was systematic and generalized. It was planned. It was not a coincidence. In a copy of the Plan Atoyac found in the National Archives, for example, the High Command of National Defense informed that derived from instructions from the Executive (the Executive being the Presidency of Mexico), for the localization, identification, detention and extermination of the guerrilla, they also planned the control of the entire population. Noriega says that the lack of truth and justice in the past period regarding forced disappearances and other state crimes is reflected in what is happening today. In the case of Ayotzinapa, for example, this is why the families do not accept government explanations for what happened to their children and continue to insist on their return, with a preliminary step being a reliable investigation.