Body of kidnapped U.S. man found in Mexico

Mercury News/AP ^ | Sat, Apr. 29, 2006 | Staff

[txroadkill]

TIJUANA, Mexico - The body of a U.S. citizen kidnapped nearly three weeks ago has been found in Tijuana by police, who said he had been beaten, strangled, stripped naked and stashed in the trunk of a car.

Investigators said Saturday that they found the remains of George Kwok Choi Chu, a seafood wholesaler who worked in Tijuana but lived across the border in San Diego, on Friday morning. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City identified the victim simply as George Chu.

Chu was kidnapped April 11 in front of his business near downtown Tijuana, according to the embassy. It was unclear whether the car that contained Chu's body belonged to him.

His body's state of decomposition suggested he had been dead for days before being found, police said.

Chu was kidnapped three days after another U.S. businessman, Yong Hak Kim, was abducted as he drove to his job as a top administrator of Amex Manufacturing in eastern Tijuana.

Kim was able to escape the small home where he was being held about 24 hours later, when his kidnappers fell asleep.

Tijuana's booming assembly-for-export business has led to many businesspeople living in the United States and commuting to factories on the Mexican side of the border.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Mexico believes what's yours is theirs and what's theirs is theirs!

[naden25]

Thank you!

[janetgreen]

Maybe he refused to pay for "protection."

Bribery is the dirty game down in Mexico. I think they refer to it as "mordida".

Never, never go to the pit of Tijuana Mexico. It was fairly safe ten years ago, but not now. Americans are targets.

[weegee]

If you listen to the rhetoric from the invaders from Mexico, some claim this land north of the border is theirs by birthright (as with the Palestinians).

Make no doubt about it. For some it IS an invasion.

[peggybac]

"Mexico believes what's yours is theirs and what's theirs is theirs!"

Democrats believe the same thing!

[peggybac]

And to make things worse, you, a US citizen, had to stand in line behind these invaders.

[MaineVoter2002]

VietNam Vet Loses Construction Job to Illegals (VIDEO)

(SEE THE VIDEO!)

http://unitedstates.fm/video/raymondherrera%20High%20Desert%20Minutemen.wmv

Corrupt Contractor Uses Illegal Mexican Laborers to Put American Citizen Out of Business
Fired from Job Framing a house by a developer that brought in an illegal work crew, the man above video is a Vietnam Vet. His father served in WWII. This is the thanks he gets.

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Also Sign This Petition (or it may be one of the last petitions you can read...unless you know Spanish)

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Please email these to your friends and relatives.

[Dasaji]

Whoa.

[Rastus]

That's a man in serious need of the A-Team.

[peggybac]

Thanks - just signed the petition. I'll look at the video later - I'm still on dialup so it may not show well on my puter. I use to belong to Voices of Citizens Together (VCT) before it changed to American Patrol. I can't begin to express my admiration and respect for Glenn Spencer. Because of my work, I'm sorry I couldn't participate more when I lived in Los Angeles.

[Caipirabob]

I'd like the US to takeover Mexico, and break it up into states, if it weren't for the war we're already in.

The biggest arguement we used to have against that idea was that then we would have to subsidize the entire country for welfare and healthcare.

However, seeing as how we are already doing that, we should be invading Mexico City today.

I'm not beyond advocating invasion, jailing their leaders, rounding up and shooting their Communists as rebels and establishing a puppet government with Naturalized American-Mexican citizens.

The areas we cannot bring under lawful control would make an ideal nuclear testing ground should we choose to restart that program. I'd say right along the Southern Mexican border.

Mexico is not a country, it is an unmitigated catastrophy and needs to be brought to heel like a big, stupid dog.

[Cementjungle]

Never, never go to the pit of Tijuana Mexico. It was fairly safe ten years ago, but not now. Americans are targets

I've been there about a dozen times, ending around 3 years ago. You couldn't pay me to go there now.

[opinionator]

American Buisnessman?

Did you think 'Yong Hak Kim' was Mexican?

[lentulusgracchus]

Or, "Cheap wages can be hazardous to your health."

[Hardastarboard]

Massad Ayoob is American too.

Mas Ayoob is one of the BEST Americans.

[lentulusgracchus]

Yet it happens to someone in our 'Friend' south of the border, and nary a peep on any of the Network News Channels...

I'm still waiting for the full story about the Minnesota businessman who was beaten to death in jail in Juarez, for daring to demand legal counsel when he was dragged before a Mexican judge on currency-exchange violation charges. (I'm told the Mexican cops often do that -- try to bait Americans into exchanging dollars into pesos off-market, then arresting them and holding them for a mordida ransom.)

That supposedly happened over ten years ago.

[garyhope]

I agree.

The whole culture, government and country are corrupt.

Why are all the illegals here waving Mexican flags when their entire country is a POS?

They should be grateful they're here and not in jail or dead like they would be in their crappy country.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

No 24/7 coverage on the cable news stations? Maybe a "pretty" blonde lost in Aruba is considered more newsworthy.

[Hatteras]

American businessmen? George Kwok Choi Chu, Yong Hak Kim...

This country is going to hell in a handbasket.

[luvbach1]

In fairness, tourists are still fairly safe in Tijuana. But don't get drunk, obey all the laws of which you are aware, and don't draw attention to yourself. Ordinary Mexicans in Tijuana historically have been mostly friendly. Maybe that's just for business. After all it makes no sense to offend tourists whose dollars you want. But with the illegals campaign in the US, supported by Mexico ands Mexicans, that may be changing. It's the drug cartels who have been doing most of the killing, usually of police officials and crusading journalists. No wonder corruption and bribery rules. There also have been a rash of kidnappings of Americans and Mexicans, some for ransom and some for murder.