Friday, July 1, 2011

Ranks Of Mexico's Missing Swell



As Ranks Of Mexico's Missing Swell, Families Clamor For Help -- McClatchy News

MEXICO CITY — Gangsters may have claimed the lives of Maria Concepcion Vizarretea's three older brothers, but she doesn't know for sure, and her private agony is part of a larger drama that's unfolding across Mexico.

The brothers disappeared after a bus trip from Oaxaca state in Mexico's south to the northern border city of Matamoros to buy construction equipment. Vizarretea fears that they fell victim to violence by drug and criminal syndicates.

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My Comment: Mass murder is becoming the norm for a good part of Mexico, and while the tally of dead from this drug cartel war is approaching 40,000 .... the number of missing can only be guessed at. And for the families who strongly suspect that their missing loved ones have been killed ..... there can never be closure.

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