In Mexico, enforced disappearance is a way of life | Drugs

At the beginning of March, expansion Creation Holocaust It was discovered on a farm in the West Mexican Galisco state, with burning human remains and 200 pairs of shoes. According to local officials, the extermination site is likely to be operated by Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which was reported that he also used the farm as a recruitment and training center.
John Holman’s correspondent, John Holman, also noticed a video after the discovery, the “strange thing” was that the Mexican authorities had “acquired the farm five months ago, but it did not report any of the infrastructure” there. Instead, it took a group of volunteers dedicated to searching for missing people who are missing to discover underground ovens.
Of the 32 states of Mexico, Galissco is the one that has the most disappeared people, which numbered more than 15,000 at the end of February. Countrywide, the official outcome of the victims of enforced disappearance and the missing persons to 125802 on March 26, although this number undoubtedly reduces fate given the frequent frequency of family members in the missing of these crimes for fear of recovery.
The enforced disappearances in Mexico began to rise-along with murders-in 2006, the year launched by Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the time, the so-called “”War on drugs“With the encouragement and support of his Greoge W Bush charitable charitable.
It was also on an equal footing with the course Everyopia is The global anti -drug mechanical drug war, which is published by the United States, has done nothing to curb the international drug movement, but much to make the country’s landscapes more in the blood. After all, excessive Mexico in Mexico in the name of fighting is not the main issue of demanding illegal materials in the United States itself, which makes it criminalizing is what makes their smuggling very attractive to organized crime equipment.
No, certainly, he does Mexico immersion With weapons made from the United States, it helps in matters, although it enables the arms industry to continue killing.
According to the official narration, Mexico’s violence is an error of drug gangs, the period. This rationalization proves comfortably from the equation of the record of the Mexican state of murder and disappearance – not to mention the long history of cooperation between the Mexican police and military personnel and Cartel agents.
The new generation of Gillesco Cartel, the alleged Steward of Secret Hollowship, was one of the different groups that were recently appointed as foreign terrorist organizations by the administration of US President Donald Trump, who was also making voices about the potential American military raids on Mexico to combat the Cartitals.
Such action by the United States will take an old “war” war to a completely new level – as usual, Mexican civilians will pay the price.
Meanwhile, Mexicans still disappear at a mental rate, the country turned into a mass grave in itself. In response to a long -term government policy not to lift a finger on behalf of the missing persons and their families, volunteer organizations were forced to take matters with their hands – and often faced anger from the state.
For example, former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) – who last year handed over the national era to his ally Claudia Shinbom – Once he took it on himself accusation Mexicans participating in the search for the missing “delirium of necrosis”. According to the National record of Mexico for missing persons and disappearances, the record has disappeared 10,064 people in one year of AMLO – between May 2022 and May 2023 – which reached an average of 27.6 per day, or more than one person per hour.
While Xinbom was more sympathetic than her predecessor to the plight of the families of The Earned, especially in the wake of the horrific news from Jalisco, a little sympathy here and ultimately there is no disappearance from the panorama for institutional escape. Amnesty International now Cite 30 disappearances per day in Mexico. Less than a week after the discovery of Jalisco, the burning ovens of the bodies and human remains in the northern Mexican states of Tamaulipas were found. This, unfortunately, is just a tip of the iceberg.
Some cases of hypothesis in Mexico have international attention, i.e. September 2014 disappearance Of the 43 students, they joined the Teachers Training College in Ayotzinaba, Guerrero. After promising justice, Amlo has obstructed the investigation into this episode, which was implemented with the full collusion of the Mexican army and police operating in Cahoots with an organized crime. Eleven years later, the horizons of the meaningful justice disappeared.
I am currently staying part -time in The coastal village of Zipolite In the southern state of Oxaka, where reports began on March 1, many young visitors from Tlaxcala had disappeared from the village the day before. One of the desperate mother moved to social media for aid in determining the location of her 23 -year -old daughter, Jacqueline Miza, a mother of two young children, claimed that she was kidnapped with her boyfriend by a group of men.
When nine bodies were found later inside and around an abandoned vehicle hours of Zipolite on the border between the cases of Oaxaca and Puebla, one was identified as belonging to meza. Many local officials have now been held in the massacre. An article on March 10 in El País detailed the “horror on the coast of Oaxaca”, where a total of 16 people from the region disappeared in just two months.
Among the population here in Zipolite – where police officers can be seen regularly in a friendly conversation, in a complete general view, with Dons from the local undergraduate world – it seems that the dominant version of events is that MEZA and others were actually from the delinquents who came to Oaxaca for the purpose of stealing institutions along the coast. They were “fine”, and therefore the gossip, and thus targeted the Narcos neighborhood, who participate in maintaining the monopoly of crime in the region and punishing strangers who do not play with the rules. In this version, the officials were simply traveled to Narco orders.
Actually as a justification for forced disappearance and murder, thinking “which is not good” is concerned. However, it is also a logical defense mechanism, perhaps, in a country where disappearance has become a means of life.
In other words, self -informing people who move on organized crime fingers are eligible to obtain the fate that Jacqueline Miza and the company may create an illusion of personal safety. In the end, though, this illusion can be fatal.
Over the past months, I traveled to many Mexican cities, including the capital of Mexico City as well Colakan In the state of Cenaloa – the home of the cartel called – and Khwariz Siouad In the state of Chihuwa, which is located across the border from El Baso, Texas. Everywhere, I saw a poster after a sticker with Mexico’s faces that disappeared – displayed in the square, posted on electric poles, hanging from trees in front of the churches.
During a recent visit to the capital of Oksakan in the city of Oaxaka, I saw a poster mentioning the disappearance of a 90 -year -old woman.
The majority of the disappearance from 2006 is due to the present time, although some of the previous era of the suppression of the state that was established in the United States-the good, old Cold War days of brutal human rights violations throughout Latin America, all in the name of fighting communism.
The painful societal effects of the comprehensive hypothesis cannot be reduced, as endless families of the missing persons are condemned to up to unlimited emotional torture, or are unable to grieve their loved ones without knowing what happened to them or where their bodies are.
But as the invisible Mexico war continues, the disappearance may have already become nature.
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