Posted on 11/15/2018 5:36:27 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Some 37,000 people in Mexico are categorized as “missing” by the government. The vast majority are believed to be dead, victims of the country’s spiraling violence that has claimed more than 250,000 lives since 2006. The country’s murder rate has more than doubled to 26 per 100,000 residents, five times the U.S. figure.
Because the missing aren’t counted as part of the country’s official murder tally, it is likely Mexico’s rate itself is higher.
The killing and the number of missing grow each year. Last year, 5,500 people disappeared, up from 3,400 in 2015. Mexico’s murders are up another 18% through September this year.
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This time around, the horror in Mexico is bigger and its causes more complex. Many of the disappeared in recent years are believed to be the victims of violence unleashed by criminal gangs fighting to control drug routes and other lucrative businesses such as extortion, kidnapping and the theft of gasoline from pipelines, often with the complicity of police forces, government officials say.
“It’s a crisis of civilization in Mexico,” said Javier Sicilia, a poet and victims’ advocate whose son was murdered in 2011. “It’s diabolical—an unprecedented perversity to disappear human beings and erase any trace of them from the world.”
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Nancy Gocher, spokeswoman for Serapaz, a group that helps coordinate survivor and search groups throughout the country, said they believe only four in 10 disappearances are reported to authorities. Michael Chamberlin, who consults for several human-rights organizations, said the total number of disappeared could be four times the official figure.
The main reason for not reporting is fear of reprisals by judicial authorities, criminals, and police, especially municipal police, who in many parts of Mexico collude with criminal gangs.
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That is a great idea.
If only we had the balls to actually send some back in sufficient quantity
35,000 of them probably sneaked into the U.S.
Very seldom does a revolution result in the establishment of a republic with a democratically elected government. A Mexican revolution would almost certainly create a Marxist state on our border, which is what the Bush(es) feared. Bad enough we already are saddled with New England and California!
I read that 25% od all Mexicans in existence are currently in the US.
That’s a tragedy!
perhaps they need their own Duerte
It’s sad what a beautiful country Mexico could be.
exactly.....we provide a huge market for drugs....
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