Gunmen Kidnap Town's Last Police Officer
Gunmen kidnapped a 28-year-old woman who was the sole police officer in the Mexican town of Guadalupe, close to the violent northern border city of Ciudad Juarez. Unidentified gunmen set Erika Gandara's home ablaze before abducting her. She was the last police officer in Guadalupe after her colleagues either resigned and fled or were killed. Guadalupe, population 9,000, is in an area used by traffickers to smuggle drugs into the United States. The town is just up the road from the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, where a 20-year-old college student and mother named Marisol Valles took over as police chief in October.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/gunmen-kidnap-towns-female-lone-ranger-28-20101228-198qh.html
De estudiante a jefa de policía
Marisol Valles, una estudiante de 20 años de edad, asumió la jefatura de la policía en uno de los municipios más violentas en México: Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, en Chihuahua. Su antecesor en el puesto fue asesinado y el último alcalde se vio obligado a huir ante amenazas de narcotraficantes.
¿Qué quieren de nosotros?
Como trabajadores de la información queremos que nos expliquen qué es lo que quieren de nosotros, qué es lo que pretenden que publiquemos o dejemos de publicar, para saber a qué atenernos.Ustedes son, en estos momentos, las autoridades de facto en esta ciudad, porque los mandos instituidos legalmente no han podido hacer nada para impedir que nuestros compañeros sigan cayendo. Es por ello que, frente a esta realidad inobjetable, nos dirigimos a ustedes para preguntarles, porque lo menos que queremos es que otro más de nuestros colegas vuelva a ser víctima de sus disparos.Ya no queremos más muertos. Ya no queremos más heridos ni tampoco más intimidaciones. Es imposible ejercer nuestra función en estas condiciones. Indíquenos, por tanto, qué esperan de nosotros como medio. Esta no es una rendición. Se trata de una tregua para con quienes han impuesto la fuerza de su ley en esta ciudad, con tal de que respeten la vida de quienes nos dedicamos al oficio de informar.
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/09/18&id=6b124801376ce134c7d6ce2c7fb8fe2f
War on the Mexican People
Since 2006, violence has become intractable in Mexico, and almost 29,000 people have died. Human and civil rights have been this war's other casualty. Anti-drug laws are used against trade unions. Homes can be searched without a warrant. The army now virtually occupies communities throughout the country, carrying out functions that, under the constitution, are not the responsibility of the armed forces: it has set up checkpoints, de facto curfews, and inspections. The situation in several northern states resembles a state of siege. In Guerrero, military forces have engaged in low intensity warfare whose tactics include stealing crops, raping women, extrajudicial killings, and even forced sterilisation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/12/drugs-war-on-mexican-people/print
Mexico's War of Terror
At least 25,000 people have been slaughtered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón hurled the Mexican Army into the anti-cartel battle. The war, assisted by the US, terrorizes the Mexican people and generates thousands of documented human rights abuses by the police and Mexican Army. Here is the US policy in a nutshell: we pay Mexicans to kill Mexicans, and this slaughter has no effect on drug shipments or prices.
How does the escalation in violence benefit the drug smuggling business which has not been diminished at all during the past three years of hyper-violence in Mexico? Each year, the death toll rises, each year there is no evidence of any disruption in the delivery of drugs to American consumers, each year the United States asserts its renewed support for this war. And each year, the basic claims about the war go unquestioned.
Let us make this simple: no one knows how many are dying, no one knows who is killing them, and no one knows what role the drug industry has in these killings. There has been no investigation of the dead and no one really knows whether they were criminals or why they died. There have been no interviews with heads of drug organizations and no one really knows what they are thinking or what they are trying to accomplish.
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/37916/who-behind-25000-deaths-mexico
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