Saturday, November 15, 2014

2014-11-13 MEXICO!

2014-11-13 MEXICO!
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[via Occupy Wall St.]
At the end, this should be considered part of the damage inflicted on Mexico by the "War on Drugs" imposed on it by the United States, and which the United Nations called to end years ago... Criminologists consider the main societal harm of the "War on Drugs" - the total corruption of government, and the justice system in particular.
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Excerpt from the New Yorker articel:
“Ya me cansé,”—“I’m finally tired” or, more colloquially, “I’ve had enough.” By the end of that night, ‪#‎YaMeCansé‬ was spreading on social networks, summoning people to a march in Mexico City the next night:‪#‎YaMeCanséDelMiedo‬. I’ve had enough fear.
Murillo Karam announced, during his press conference, that this new information was the result of testimony gathered just that week from three recently captured young members of the cartel Guerreros Unidos, which traffics heroin to the United States. The three captured delinquents were known as “El Pato,” “El Jona,” and “El Chereje.” According to Murillo Karam, the Iguala municipal police who detained the Ayotzinapa students had turned them over to Guerreros Unidos in the early-morning hours of September 27th, shortly after the police and other gunmen had already killed three students, as well as three other bystanders, in a series of armed attacks in Iguala during the previous night. The initial attacks, and everything that happened after, were allegedly carried out on the orders of the then mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, who became a fugitive for about a month, until he was finally captured last week, along with his wife, in an abandoned-looking house in a working-class Mexico City barrio.
At the press conference, Murillo Karam interspersed his narration of what happened after the students were handed over with video snippets from the declarations of the arrested cartel members. The students were mostly crammed into the back of a cargo truck, piled atop one another (some others were forced into a smaller truck), and then driven to the Cocula municipal dump. According to the detained witnesses, some fifteen of the students were already dead by the time they arrived; several had been wounded during that night’s earlier attacks. The cartel gunmen interrogated those who were still alive about their identities and the reasons they had come to Iguala, and one after another the captives replied that they were students. Then the gunmen executed them.
What befell the students from Ayotzinapa was a manifestation of the political corruption and impunity that has been tormenting the country for years.
NEWYORKER.COM

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