Harrowing Details Of Slaughtered Students, 43 Abductions As Orchestrated By Mayor’s Wife In Mexico –

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Business Times

Harrowing Details Of Slaughtered Students, 43 Abductions As Orchestrated By Mayor’s Wife In Mexico – Reports
By Athena Yenko | November 7, 2014 5:52 PM EST

On Sept 27, a body of a 22-year-old student was found spread on a street in Iguala, Mexico with his face skin peeled off and his eyes gouged out. Forty-three other students remain missing, three other students died and one in a coma in a criminal scandal allegedly orchestrated by the town's ex-mayor's wife.

On the night of Sept 26, 100 student teachers, including Julio Cesar Mondragon, rode a bus to Iguala to protest against the candidacy of Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the town ex-mayor's wife. While travelling, the bus was stopped and shoot by Iguala police officers. Mondragon was later found with peeled skin and gouged eyes, three other students died, with one 19-year-old student identified as Aldo Gutierrez shot in the head and had since been in a coma. The other 43 students were reportedly abducted by the Iguala police and remain missing up until this very day.

A friend of Mondragon said he saw all of his face skin was missing and his eyes were removed. The body was only recognizable because of the clothes he was wearing. The Iguala police officers are being associated to a criminal gang that has strong control with the local government, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told CNN.

Former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife were arrested Tuesday for allegedly orchestrating the crime. The couple, with the town's director of public safety are the "probable masterminds," Mexican officials alleged.

Read more: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/572076/20141107/mexico-mssing-students-mayor-s-wife-43.htm

[freshwest]

1. At least these Hellbeasts were arrested. Will there be justice for these young people?

Thanks for updating this horrifying story, to show that someone is working against these monsters.

[tomm2thumbs]

2. sometimes eye-for-an-eye sounds so appealing

even if it lowers yourself to someone else's level... just sometimes you wonder if it is necessary for the worst of the worst

[bemildred]

3. I would bet she (the wife) has been using a lot of "product" herself.

Some of those drugs will really fuck up your head.

[geek tragedy]

4. parts of Mexico are perfectly safe, other parts are like Mad Max.

If those responsible were Islamist radicals, we'd probably have troops on the ground there.

[Guaguacoa]

6. Most any more are

like mad max here, with only the tourist and "gringo" areas being policed. Most places, like here in mexico state, the police are part of the problem. Tourist and "Gringo" areas being policed give the illusion of security for foreign money and most crime here (obviously some of the most heinous does) does not get reported in the us papers unless it happens to people from the us.

Example being a while back some people from a church in the us got abducted, raped in a park here in mexico state. It included children. It happens a lot here, it only made the papers in the us as it was people from the us. It makes it look like isolated incidents in the us, when it's business as usual here.

So you think the US should invade Mexico? Pena nieto would never allow it otherwise, he is part of the narco gobierno.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Good to see your comment on Pena Nieto, after having seen corporate "news" coverage of his campaign

in the U.S. It was so easy from the first moments whom the power people were pushing, as every single article I saw which was published in the U.S. had to make sure to include their favorite observation about him, their belief that he was really "photogenic."

My god. "Photogenic" as a reason to vote for someone. And he is "slick" looking rather than "photogenic," "slick" as utterly insincere, and lacking any trace of character, or depth, or integrity. What a shame.

Life in Mexico seems like a total daily struggle for the majority of citizens.

Good to see your comments, Guaguacoa.

[UglyGreed]

5. RIP

[Judi Lynn]

8. Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response

Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response
Posted November 7th, 2014 by Human Rights Watch

Need Rigorous Investigations to Resolve Cases, Restore Justice System Credibility

These are the worst atrocities we’ve seen in Mexico in years, but they are hardly isolated incidents. Instead, these killings and forced disappearances reflect a much broader pattern of abuse and are largely the consequence of the longstanding failure of Mexican authorities to address the problem.

José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director

(New York) – The Mexican government delayed investigations into the enforced disappearances of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero State, and the killing of 22 people in Tlatlaya, Mexico State, Human Rights Watch said today. In the Tlatlaya case, state prosecutors sought to cover up military wrongdoing by coercing false testimony from witnesses.

The Mexican government should ensure thorough investigations of both episodes, Human Rights Watch said. Officials who failed to respond promptly to these incidents or sought to cover them up should be held accountable.

“These are the worst atrocities we’ve seen in Mexico in years, but they are hardly isolated incidents,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “Instead, these killings and forced disappearances reflect a much broader pattern of abuse and are largely the consequence of the longstanding failure of Mexican authorities to address the problem.”

Human Rights Watch visited Guerrero and Mexico City beginning on November 3, 2014, to meet with parents of the missing students, witnesses to both incidents, and senior government officials in Mexico City, including Mexico’s attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam.

Murillo Karam and other justice officials expressed their commitment to finding the Guerrero students and ensuring full accountability for abuses. However, the office’s initial response to these cases was marred by significant delays. In the Iguala case, the office waited 10 days after the students disappeared before opening an investigation. In the Tlatlaya case, it took the Attorney General’s Office three months to intervene.

“These inexcusable delays have badly damaged the credibility of the Attorney General’s Office and generated mounting pressure for it to show results,” Vivanco said. “But it would be a grave mistake to go from doing little or nothing on these cases to rushing to reach unsubstantiated conclusions to appear to resolve them.”

In the Tlatlaya episode, military personnel killed 22 people inside an empty warehouse on June 30. Accounts from witnesses and a report by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said that at least 12 of them were extrajudicially executed.

State prosecutors detained two of the three surviving witnesses, beat them, repeatedly asphyxiated them with a bag, and threatened them with sexual abuse to force them to confess that they had links to people killed in the incidents and to say that the military was not responsible for the killings, the CNDH found. Police threatened and mistreated a third witness who saw how the military executed her daughter during the incident. Police also forced the three witnesses to sign documents whose content they could not read.

More:
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/mexico-delays-cover-mar-atrocities-response