Mexico: A 22-year-old student was taken, slain and dumped by a highway after his family failed to produce $30,000. Gunmen broke into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, picked out a hardware store owner, kidnapped and killed him, too.
According to the tally by community organizers, in December alone, at least 7 people were kidnapped in this town of 100,000 people.
Residents say the reinforcements are welcome but they have no confidence that government institutions they claim are rotten with corruption can have any real long-term impact on a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in this sunbaked stretch of sugarcane and tomato fields dotted with the weekend homes of Mexico City’s upper-middle class.
Israel Serna (lawmaker for the leftist Citizens’ Movement party), at this moment there are roadblocks but we don’t see any investigation. There’s no information. That’s the reason for the people’s sense of impotence, for their grief.
Even officials acknowledge that the kidnapping spike is a direct result of Mexico’s crackdown on organized crime.
The official count was 1,695 but government polls show that less than 2 percent of kidnappings are reported to police. If accurate, the real number of abductions would exceed 100,000 a year.
Cappella said that, the lieutenants, the orphans, dedicated themselves to this type of criminal activity. The crisis in Yautepec has to do with this criminal group carrying out kidnappings more crudely than we’re used to, killing its victims, who don’t have great financial resources.
Cappella also said, Criminal organizations couldn’t succeed anywhere in the world, carrying out such serious crimes, if they aren’t helped by corrupt police, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt judges, corrupt institutions.
The most important war is the war in the streets, against criminality. The harder war is the second one, inside our institutions.
Mexico 7 People Were Kidnapped In Town Of 100,000 People
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