WHILE
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and getting the LA RAZA vote.
MEXICANS
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ACCORDING
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ALL MURDERS ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS.
CA HAS THE
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SECURITY into the DHS = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP, AS LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO IS
A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST FOR OPEN BORDERS.
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MEXICO
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OBAMA’S ASSAULT FOR HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE, IS THE SECOND CAPITAL FOR MEXICAN
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A new report by a civic
participation group has put a number for the first time on the human toll:
20,851 people disappeared over the past six years, although not every case on
the list has been proven related to the drug war.
List of
1000s of missing raises doubts in Mexico
By
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Associated Press – 19 hrs ago
…
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in
2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state of
Michoacan to fight drug traffickers.
Since
then, his mother, Araceli Rodriguez, has taken it into her own hands to
investigate her son's disappearance and has publicized the case inside and
outside Mexico. She's found some clues about what happened but still doesn't
have any certainty about her son's whereabouts.
As
Mexican troops and police cracked down on drug cartels, who also battled among
themselves, Leon was just one of thousands of people who went missing amid a
wave of violence that stunned the nation. A
new report by a civic participation group has put a number for the first time
on the human toll: 20,851 people disappeared over the past six years, although
not every case on the list has been proven related to the drug war.
With
at least another 70,000 deaths tied to drug violence, the numbers point to a
brutal episode that ranks among Latin America's deadliest in decades. In Chile,
nearly 3,100 people were killed, among them 1,200 considered disappeared, for
political reasons during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship, and at
least 50,000 people disappeared during 40 years of internal conflict in
Colombia.
The
new database is shedding needed light on Mexico's unfolding tragedy. It's also
sparking angry questions about why it doesn't include all of the disappeared.
Neither
Rodriguez's son nor his six colleagues who went missing on Nov. 16, 2009, are
in the database, which was allegedly leaked by the Attorney General's Office to
a foreign journalist. The group Propuesta Civica, or Civic Proposal, released
the data on Thursday.
Rodriguez's
mother said she's been in touch with authorities investigating the case and has
spoken about it in several public forums about the missing.
"I
don't think any government entity has a complete database," she said.
A
spokesman for federal prosecutors, who would not allow his name to be used
under the agency's rules, said the Attorney General's Office had no knowledge
of the document.
As
compiled by Civic Proposal, the report reveals the sheer scope of human loss,
with the missing including police officers, bricklayers, housewives, lawyers,
students, businessmen and more than 1,200 children under age 11. The
disappeared are listed one by one with such details as name, age, gender and
the date and place where they disappeared.
Some media in Mexico have
reported that the number of missing could be even greater, at more than 25,000,
with their estimates reportedly based on official reports, although media
accounts didn't make the reports public.
"We're
worried because several of the people gone missing in the state of Coahuila,
and that we have reported to authorities, don't appear on the database,"
said Blanca Martinez of the Fray Juan de Larios human rights center in that
northern border state. She's also an adviser to the group Forces United for Our
Disappeared in Coahuila, made up of relatives searching for loved ones.
Martinez
said that between 2007 and 2012 the group registered 290 cases of missing
people. The database released Thursday lists 272 cases in the state since 2006.
"We
have no doubt that the authorities have done absolutely nothing" to solve
them, she said.
Public
attention to Mexico's disappeared has grown especially since 2011 when former
President Felipe Calderon publicly met with members of the Movement for Peace
with Justice and Dignity, a human rights group led by poet Javier Sicilia. His
son was allegedly killed by drug traffickers that same year.
Sicilia's
movement demanded that the thousands of killed and missing should be treated as
victims of the drug war, even if they were criminal suspects. Calderon's
government responded that it would create a missing persons database, but
authorities have not made it public so far. Calderon also ordered the creation
of a special prosecutor in charge of assisting crime victims and supporting the
search for the missing.
"There
is nothing worse for me than having a missing relative. Not knowing where the
person may be is very serious and so ... in every case that comes to us, we try
to find a solution, to find the person," said Sara Herrerias, the head of
Provictima, the office established by Calderon to help crime victims.
Herrerias,
however, was cautious talking about the number of missing and said she could
only discuss the cases that her office has dealt with.
In
14 months, she said, Provictima has handled the cases of 1,523 missing people,
most of them allegedly taken by members of organized crime but with some cases
also reportedly involving government authorities. Of the total number, 150
people have been located, 40 of them found dead.
Herrerias
declined to talk about the possible magnitude of disappearances. "I don't
like to talk when I don't have hard data," she said.
Estimates
of the missing vary. The National Human Rights Commission, which operates
independently from the government, has said that some 24,000 people were
reported missing between 2000 and mid-2012, in addition to some 16,000 bodies
that have been found but remain unidentified.
The
government of President Enrique Pena, who took office Dec. 1, estimates the
number of unidentified bodies at about 9,000 during Calderon's previous
six-year administration.
Civic
Proposal director Pilar Talavera said that although her group saw
inconsistencies in the database, they decided to disclose it not only to help
the public understand the scale of the violence, but also to pressure
authorities to disclose official information on disappearances.
While
the numbers help, what the relatives of the missing need most, of course, is to
just learn what happened to their loved ones.
Since
the disappearance of Rodriguez's then-23-year-old son, a dozen alleged members
of the La Familia drug cartel have been arrested as suspects in his case.
Rodriguez said she has interviewed four of them, who have told her that her son
and the other six officers were killed and their bodies
"disintegrated."
She
said that so far no one has given her any clues about where her son's remains
are.
"If
it's true what the criminals say ... even with that, my heart asks to find Luis
Angel," Rodriguez said. "For me Luis Angel is still missing
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