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Mass grave of Mexican students - David Guyatt - 12-10-2014 Where's a cop when you need them? Out killing students in Mexico's continuing dreadful drug war, it seems... Quote:Mexican parents wait for news of 43 missing students following mass graves discovery Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 15-10-2014 Guerrero: don't forgive, don't forget![]() That's the "Palacio de Gobierno," the seat of the government in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, in flames late Monday afternoon. Behind these were flames that sear, not the flesh, but the soul. On September 26, cops from the city of Iguala massacred students from a nearby heavily-indigenous rural teacher's college. Six people were killed, dozens wounded, and 43 students were arrested and vanished ... "disappeared." Also vanished are Iguala's mayor, who told radio interviewers shortly before going on the lam that he knew nothing of the events until reading about it in the newspapers, since he had been at a dance that night; the mayor's wife, honoree at the festivities and sister to four former capos of the Beltrán Leyva cartel and founding leaders of its successor, Guerreros Unidos. Also not to be found were the owners of the main movie theater, the supermarket, the shopping mall, the jewelry store and many other Iguala businesses. But that is not so surprising once you realize that one name appears time and again on title deeds and incorporation papers: namely and to wit, the name of hizzoner the mayor. The chief of police is also gone, albeit he is not the same person as the mayor, only an accomplice. Also an accomplice is the governor of the state of Guerrero, who not only is not a fugitive, but refuses to resign his position. The picture above captures the reaction of a broad section of the population to his demural. The Iguala massacre will go down in history with the Tlatelolco massacre of hundreds of students in 1968 as one of the greatest crimes of Mexico's rulers. And the country's political class has followed its usual pattern of pretending nothing has happened: President Enrique Peña Nieto said it was a local matter and it took him nine days, until Monday October 6, before he could bring himself to take even a smidgen of responsibility, and that only after mass graves with the charred remains of 28 persons were found. He spoke again on Friday the 10th, two weeks after the massacre and after more clandestine graves were found. "En un Estado de Derecho no cabe la impunidad," he thundered, which means, "under the rule of law, there is no place for impunity." He did not, however, explain what such idyllic clichés have to do with Mexico, as the mayor of Iguala --his whereabouts still unknown-- nevertheless managed to get a judge to issue an injunction against the mayor being arrested or questioned. From my perch as co-host of an Atlanta Spanish-language talk radio show with a mostly Mexican audience, watching these events unfold over the past two-and-a-half weeks, has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. President Peña Nieto seems to think the whole thing can still be papered over with a few phrases promising to punish those responsible, now that his explanations of the division of responsibility between federal and state authorities has failed to satisfy. But watching the TV news videos of the burning "Government Palace" only keeps pushing through my mind the ending of a song I first heard sometime in high school, nearly a half century ago. Down on our knees we're begging you please, We're sorry for the way you were driven. There's no need to taunt just take what you want, and we'll make amends, if we're living. But away from the grounds the flames told the town that only the dead are forgiven. As they crumbled inside the ringing of revolution. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com.au/2014_10_01_archive.html Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 09-11-2014 While the mayor and his wife were finally arrested with a few others who admitted to killing the students it is far from the justice which is needed. The underlying corruption is untouched and the big fish still swim. Now the state government palace has been torched by those protesting the murder of the students. Mexico is actually on the brink of revolution. Not sure if the students death will be the trigger. There are many simmering resentments in Mexican society but their deaths have triggered a huge response from a normally frightened and apathetically resigned populace. An interesting film I saw recently and not unrelated to the death of the students and the role of corruption caused by illegal drugs is Narco Cultura http://narcoculture.com/ It is in English and gives a look into the Mexican songs, narcocorridos, which glorify the Narcos Drug Lord as some sort of Robin Hood (they are nothing like him but that is what some think) and the 'respectable' businesses which seek to capitalize on it but it is a lot more than that too. It looks at the lives of some who live in Juarez City on US border with El Paso on the US side and how they live with the drug war on the front line. Terrifying, sad, infuriating, tragic, human. It is on Netflix. Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 09-11-2014 One reason Mexico is on the verge of revolution is because the Attorney General at a press conference about the murdered students haughtily dismissed, in the tradition of Marie Antoinette, the journalists and families legitimate questions by saying that he had had enough and was tired of the questions. This has resulted in a #YaMeCanse hashtag (Enough, I'm tired) on social media which trended to number one but has not been covered at all by the MSM as far as I can see. A media black out. Quote: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexican-official-s-gaffe-fuels-protests-in-case-of-43-missing-students-1.2828785 Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 13-01-2015 Mass grave of Mexican students - David Guyatt - 13-01-2015 Bravo. What they've down is impressive, but was also imperative for them. I hope they are allowed to continue on unhindered. Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 13-01-2015 David Guyatt Wrote:Bravo. What they've down is impressive, but was also imperative for them. I hope they are allowed to continue on unhindered. I just hope they continue whether they are allowed to or not. They are just doing what should be done by the 'elected' officials anyway. Since they are too busy either collaborating with or hiding from drug cartels they have no legitimacy any longer. Mass grave of Mexican students - Magda Hassan - 08-02-2015 Breaking: Mine workers kidnapped from Torex Gold (TXG.to) project (UPDATED) Posted: 07 Feb 2015 06:18 PM PST According to early reports, yesterday Friday between 10 and 15 employees working at the Torex Gold (TXG.to) Morelos mine were kidnapped by a gang of around 20 people some 300 metres from the entrance to the mine. Their whereabouts are still unknown today, Saturday afternoon. UPDATE: Latest reports put the number of kidnapped employees at 12, with 11 of them members of the management team. They were ambushed at around 7pm local time yesterday evening by an armed gang who are now demanding a ransom payment. The kidnapped members of staff are apparently Mexican nationals from Coahuila, Michoacán, San Luis Potosà and Sonora states. And don't say that IKN didn't try to warn you all. UPDATE 2: An un-named director Gabriela Sánchez, VP of investor relations at Torex (TXG.to) spoke to Mexican press a few minutes ago and said that only one of the people kidnapped works at the mine. She said that to this point the company has received no ransom demand. She also says that the company will publish a news release in a few hours' time. UPDATE 3: Here's the first English language wire report, out just a few minutes ago. Extract: There were conflicting reports Saturday on how many were taken and whether some were workers for Media Luna, a Canadian-owned gold mining project in the municipality of Cocula, where police officers were charged with participating in the student killings.A state prosecutor's spokesmen said 12 people were taken, including some mine workers. A second government official said that 19 were taken and eight later released and that those held included some mine workers. Both insisted on not being quoted by name because the case had not been officially announced. The state official said the kidnappers were disguised as police or military.But the president of Toronto-based Torex Gold Resources Inc., which owns the mine, said the reports about his employees being abducted were false. Fred Stanford told The Associated Press he had confirmed that nine of his workers who were reported kidnapped were not taken and that he had conflicting information on a 10th employee."One may be involved, but because of a family matter. It has nothing to do with the mine," said Stanford, who is also Torex Gold's chief executive officer.Stanford said Torex Gold has about 250 employees in the area, but at least 1,000 more who are contract workers.
However, one of the employees at the mine, Juan Zuñiga Méndez, said this afternoon that the commander of the local Community police force told him that a group of armed men had kidnapped workers at the mine while they were travelling in a shuttle bus service. In Zuñiga's words, "They told me that not only workers but also civilians who were commuting from their day's work (had been kidnapped) and to date we don't have the confirmed total of people, but it is a fact." UPDATE 5: This is a very interesting report on events, which names regional head of the narco gang "La Familia" as the person behind the kidnapping and gives a lot of details on what happened. http://incakolanews.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/breaking-mine-workers-kidnapped-from.html |