Posted on 04/04/2011 10:22:15 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's human rights commission said that more than 5,000 people have disappeared in the country since President Felipe Calderón began the fight against organized crime, La Jornada newspaper reported Sunday.
The report from the National Commission on Human Rights reported that from 2006 to 2011, it recorded a total of 5,397 people who have been reported "missing or absent." The commission said that 3,457 were men and 1,885 women, while there was no data provided on 55 cases.
The data collected is provided by relatives. The information also includes victims of kidnapping and economic migrants whose whereabouts are unknown.
The report has been criticized by various national organizations since the figures are not separated in specific categories. They argue that the fact that it doesn't differentiate between forced disappearances and missing person cases downplays the issue of disappearances.
The commission also reported that 8,898 bodies were not identified or their causes of death were not clarified.
The publication of the report comes two days after the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances suggested to the Mexican government to withdraw the army from the war against drug cartels since it is not trained to do public security tasks. In addition, the presence of the army has led to increasing cases of forced disappearances.
More than 30,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Calderón declared the war on drug cartels in December 2006.
I found them. They’re at my local Wal-Mart of Friday evenings..........
I think I found them at Home Depot.
Doesn’t sound like Calderon is winning.
They are all in Liberal, Kansas.
it recorded a total of 5,397 people who have been reported “missing or absent.”....
Huh Huh.....Missing or absent across the border.
5,000 people? I don’t believe this. No sir.
More like 5,000,000. And they’re all in the US illegally.
I wonder if it’s safe to go just across the border to buy prescription drugs.
50,000 go missing in the USA each year. I’ll guarantee that 5,000 went missing in Mexico long before Calderon took over.
But what do they want? Should Mexico simply give in totally to the criminal classes? Do these idiots think that that would save lives.
The world is full of second-guessers. None of them offer a better solution.
Why? just go to the Mexican Restaurant in Liberal, Kansas and order them from the waitress.
I thought for a minute that I was in a Third World Country. there was not only a large amount of South Americans, but a massive amount of Arabs. Very strange.
Remember this is two thousand miles from the Mexican border in Ohio, a State that has lost over 600,000 jobs over the course of the last decade. Only Michigan has lost more jobs.
I refer to my local Wal-Mart as Little Mexico on Fridays and Saturdays..........
I’m closer to the border than I am to Liberal, Kansas.
You got me there.... I love it when I read a post that makes me spit coffee all over the laptop. Thanks for that.
They are cleaning house in a manner that is not quite civilized, a third world thing... It is probably necessary, but disgusting to civilized sensibility.
I think that is one reason they are still the third world.
In my youth as a college student in San Diego, I had a great deal of interest in Mexico and her peoples and culture. I wanted to travel the Baja all the way to the Southern tip, visit Mexico City, the Yucatan Peninsula.
Not anymore. I’ve too much of Mexico right here in the Midwest and the damned NarcoTrafficantes are destroying the tequila industry because the land for growing the mezcal is far more profitable growing narcotics. At the rate they are going, tequila shortages will cause the price to rifle through the roof before year-end.
Muck Fexico!
They’re paying with your own money, too...................
The fish took them. (Kathleen Madigan reference)
Ha, you beat me to it. They’re living large in SF. No need to look further.
I guess you can find a Chinaman anywhere as well.
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