This is partly what the undocumented children and their parents were running away from. The parents believed the children were safer on trains without seats or means to feed themselves than in Mexico.
I hope the Mexican government can confirm the DNA.
November 7, 2014
By Josie Ensor Suspected gang members in Mexico (click here) have confessed to killing more than 40 missing students and incinerating their remains in a case that has shocked the country, the country’s attorney general has said.
I hope the Mexican government can confirm the DNA.
November 7, 2014
By Josie Ensor Suspected gang members in Mexico (click here) have confessed to killing more than 40 missing students and incinerating their remains in a case that has shocked the country, the country’s attorney general has said.
For weeks, authorities have been searching for the students since police attacked their buses in the southern city of Iguala in late September, allegedly working under the orders of former mayor José Luis Abarca and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda.
The three Guerreros Unidos gang members, named by Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam as Patricio Landa, Jhonatan Gomez and Agustin Reyes, said the students were killed after they were handed over to them.
The suspects, who confessed while being questioned by police, said they burnt the bodies before crushing the remains of the victims and stuffing them into bags and tossing them in a river.
Mexico's government is still waiting for DNA confirmation to establish the identity of those killed, which Mr Karam warned should prove difficult....
...From my research, (click here) it appears that the first use of the name Guerreros Unidos was on December 16, 2011, when a banner was found in northern Guerrero against Los Rojos (The Reds) signed by "Guerrero Unidos brazo armado de La F.M." ( Guerrero States armed wing of the FM, in reference to La Familia Michoacana ) Guerrero Unidos armed wing of La F.M., in reference to La Familia Michoacana). At that time, Los Rojos (The Reds), based out of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and La Familia Michoacana were locked in a brutal battle for control of the region....
...Around 6:00 AM on March 18, 2012, 10 heads (7 males and 3 females) were left at the entrance of the municipality of Teloloapan,Guerrero. A message written on a card accompanied it as well, which stated that "This will happen to all those who support La F.M."..."Sincerely: Guerrero Unidos".
I have never read a solid explanation for why Guerreros Unidos split from its parent organization, though, around this time frame, Los Rojos and La Familia Michoacana reached a ceasefire which, I believe, played at least a factor in its rise to independence. Since that time, Guerreros Unidos has fought an unending war against both Los Rojos and La Familia Michoacana....
This all seem very outrageous to most Americans. Why the gangs? Why so many gangs? Why the violence against children?
Drug cartels are a way of life. The governments of these countries have not been able to instill economies whereby the citizens have work. This is the reason there are undocumented immigrants in the USA. Either they work for the cartels or they take a very long trip of almost impossible odds to cross the border with the USA and cross a desert with depleted body conditions to arrive somewhere with hopes of other Mexicans to begin to work and support their families back home.
That is what the choice is for undocumented workers. This is what happens to their children. These were high school students. They were nearly adults. That is almost an impossibility in these countries.
The cartels are everywhere south of the USA border. They drop off in members and numbers just below Brazil's southern border. There are cowboys in Argentina and Chili and mines that provide some degree of income and status.
The countries in Latin America are discriminated against by most politicians, when in fact the governments do their level best to improve their countries and grow an economy. The governments are succeeding in marginal ways, but, at least they are marginal and not completely absent.
The USA deploys soldiers and trainers to areas in Latin America, but, as if looking for a State Police Assassin, it is difficult to patrol 'the woods' where most of the activity occurs.
The USA thinks drug gangs are violent in the USA. That ain't nothing to the heinous acts against innocent people who dearly cling to God and Jesus for hope.
My sympathies to the families and friends of these wonderful students. My sympathies to Mexico as the government knows the pain of losing too many people every year.
This all seem very outrageous to most Americans. Why the gangs? Why so many gangs? Why the violence against children?
Drug cartels are a way of life. The governments of these countries have not been able to instill economies whereby the citizens have work. This is the reason there are undocumented immigrants in the USA. Either they work for the cartels or they take a very long trip of almost impossible odds to cross the border with the USA and cross a desert with depleted body conditions to arrive somewhere with hopes of other Mexicans to begin to work and support their families back home.
That is what the choice is for undocumented workers. This is what happens to their children. These were high school students. They were nearly adults. That is almost an impossibility in these countries.
The cartels are everywhere south of the USA border. They drop off in members and numbers just below Brazil's southern border. There are cowboys in Argentina and Chili and mines that provide some degree of income and status.
The countries in Latin America are discriminated against by most politicians, when in fact the governments do their level best to improve their countries and grow an economy. The governments are succeeding in marginal ways, but, at least they are marginal and not completely absent.The USA deploys soldiers and trainers to areas in Latin America, but, as if looking for a State Police Assassin, it is difficult to patrol 'the woods' where most of the activity occurs.
The USA thinks drug gangs are violent in the USA. That ain't nothing to the heinous acts against innocent people who dearly cling to God and Jesus for hope.
My sympathies to the families and friends of these wonderful students. My sympathies to Mexico as the government knows the pain of losing too many people every year.
