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11 vanish from Mexico City bar in suspected kidnap
AP via Charter ^ | May 31, 2013 | MARK STEVENSON

Posted on 05/31/2013 6:05:29 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said Thursday.

The apparent mass abduction purportedly happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday morning just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city's main boulevard, near the Angel of Independence monument and only about 1½ blocks from the U.S. Embassy.

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City prosecutors said they had received 11 missing-person reports, but Garcia said residents of the tough downtown neighborhood of Tepito where the victims live thought as many as 15 or 16 people could have been abducted.

The known missing include six men, most in their 20s, a 16-year-old boy and four young women.

(Excerpt) Read more at charter.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kidnapping; mexico
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Just in case you needed another good example of why Sunday mornings are better spent in an American church than a Mexican bar.
1 posted on 05/31/2013 6:05:29 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

The likely won’t be returned alive, or with their heads attached if it’s Los Zetas.


2 posted on 05/31/2013 6:11:41 AM PDT by TSgt (More Scott Roeders and fewer Tillers and Gosnells)
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To: TSgt

Reason # 539 not to visit Mexico if you are Caucasian.


3 posted on 05/31/2013 6:13:24 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Pan_Yan

Why are the ages of the ‘four young women’ not revealed, or at least estimated?

An oversight or intentional, meant to mask some unpleasant implications of the goings on prior to the abduction?


4 posted on 05/31/2013 6:15:50 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Bar employees ushered them out of the bar where armed men herded them into already waiting SUV’s. These youth were residents of the town and not tourists.

When are Mexican citizens going to rise up?


5 posted on 05/31/2013 6:16:03 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Pan_Yan

I wonder if anyone had a concealed gun....


6 posted on 05/31/2013 6:16:06 AM PDT by Baseballguy (If we knew what we know now in Oct would we do anything different?)
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To: jsanders2001

They weren’t Caucasian. They were residents of the town.


7 posted on 05/31/2013 6:17:32 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: jsanders2001

I stepped across the border at Nogalas in 2000 when I was stationed in Huachuca. I had never been to Mexico and thought it would be interesting to check it out.

I didn’t stay long and was glad to get back across the border.


8 posted on 05/31/2013 6:19:21 AM PDT by TSgt (More Scott Roeders and fewer Tillers and Gosnells)
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“When are Mexican citizens going to rise up?”

Good question, is corruption so powerful that no one will stand up?

9 posted on 05/31/2013 6:19:52 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Not some fringe outpost, in Mexico City nonetheless.


10 posted on 05/31/2013 6:21:58 AM PDT by TSgt (More Scott Roeders and fewer Tillers and Gosnells)
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To: jsanders2001

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/05/30/authorities-investigate-disappearance-11-people-in-mexico-city/
The young people, who worked and liked to spend time at the bar, were taken out of the establishment by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.

The group may have been taken away by drug cartel members, who often abduct targeted individuals and do not demand ransom, dumping victims’ bodies at some location a few days later, relatives said.

Several of the missing young people had criminal records for involvement in robberies, drug trafficking and arms possession, media reports said. EFE


11 posted on 05/31/2013 6:22:50 AM PDT by TSgt (More Scott Roeders and fewer Tillers and Gosnells)
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To: Pan_Yan

Boycott Mexico


12 posted on 05/31/2013 6:23:18 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: 2001convSVT

When are Mexican citizens going to rise up?”
Good question, is corruption so powerful that no one will stand up?

They don’t have 2A rights in Ol’ Mejico, so the answer is NEVER!


13 posted on 05/31/2013 6:25:23 AM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: TSgt

I don’t care if I won a FREE all-expenses paid trip to a Mexican paradise resort, I wouldn’t go. There are plenty of beaches & places to visit in the U.S.


14 posted on 05/31/2013 6:25:49 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
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To: 2001convSVT

“When are Mexican citizens going to rise up?”
Good question, is corruption so powerful that no one will stand up?

________________

When the US closes its border and stops being a pressure release valve propping up this degenerate system


15 posted on 05/31/2013 6:27:10 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Same here.

I’d rather go to Detroit.


16 posted on 05/31/2013 6:28:27 AM PDT by TSgt (More Scott Roeders and fewer Tillers and Gosnells)
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To: Chickensoup

Well they are in a heap of dung!
I think all of the Magnificent Seven are long gone!


17 posted on 05/31/2013 6:33:02 AM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Chickensoup

Take away the illegals vote and nullify the politicians need to pamper them. You should be a U.S. citizen and be at least 25 to vote IMO. You need to have gone through some rough patches and paid some taxes yourself before you can vote to elect leaders that will decide your fate and how much $$$ comes out of your pockets to pay taxes.


18 posted on 05/31/2013 6:34:23 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Pan_Yan

All cultures are equal, right?


19 posted on 05/31/2013 6:37:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (Swedes bring their cars..savages their flames..burning cars a metaphor. D. Greenfield)
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To: TSgt

1.5 blocks from the U.S. Embassy!


20 posted on 05/31/2013 6:47:45 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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