Posted on 12/25/2010 11:20:03 AM PST by Dallas59
MEXICO CITY – Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.
The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.
His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.
His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico's secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.
It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.
Three soldiers have been charged with killing her son. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
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Having spent time in Mexico in many areas of the country and also spending time in Colombia, I’ll take Colombia in a New York second.
Thousands of Americans living in Mexico get along real well. Sometimes, it gets SO BAD here, it is kind of like uh...maybe Detroit or Washington DC.
How on Earth can you follow up the first sentence with the second and still try to be credible? Maybe if you take the square mileage of Mexico and convert it into a straight line.
The writer is full of it. The distance from Tijuana, Baja California to Merida, Yucatan is about 1900 miles. The distance from Anchorage to Atlanta is nearly twice as far, 3400 miles.
It is 3400 miles, more-or-less, from Anchorage to Atlanta.
It is 1900 miles from Tijuana to Merida.
Try again.
>> “Anyone who buys property in Costa Rica is NUTZ!” <<
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I have a friend that has a bar in San Jose, and a ranch that straddles the ridge on the coast. He loves the place, and hates to come back to the US for business.
Another friend who was born there, but came to the US for high school, has been trying to get me to move down there. She is a bit of a leftist, as I recall.
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What did your friend have to say about the TLC election and the blatant Marxist rhetoric used by the anti-free traders?
>> “How well does your friend who owns the bar and ranch speak and read Spanish?” <<
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I suspect not fluently. - He speaks money.
He has numerous native employees, which engraciates him with the local power structure.
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It’s the world turned upside down. How long as a nation can we let this go on?
Yup! :) Years ago.
We used to drive there from Tucson. You headed south from Nogales. It would be a very dangeros drive today. I’ll go to the Virgin Islands or the Bahamas instead.
I made the same drive and as I recall lots of empty spaces and lonely places. The only way I’d make that today is if I had my son’s Marine Marsoc Team with me.
His wife was smart enough to know to get out of Mexico. She moved to Atlanta. He was dumb enough to stay in Mexico. The fact that he did not want to carry a gun shows the level of his intelligence.
“The fact that he did not want to carry a gun shows the level of his intelligence.”
I reckon it’s safe to assume he used to be a liberal, then.
Yeah, I guess it’s waaay more important to argue size than the reality and ignorance of the first post. But I expect that on FR.
“It could’ve been me. Someone’s suggested a trip to Mehico as a cure for my blues...”
Got me a bad case of them Toe Tag Blues...
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