In Mexico, Bad Men and Women Do What They Want Because They Can Adela Navarro Bello - Sin Embargo | |
go to original April 17, 2017 |
Investigate an apparent culture of impunity that allows some in Mexican law enforcement to detain and kill at will. (Al Jazeera English)
Eight men were killed, their bodies with marks of torture were put in black trash bags, and they were put into a van. They were discovered in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, a few days ago.
Several weeks ago, in the back of the Colinas de Santa Fe cemetery in Veracruz, several clandestine graves, located in investigations by the ministerial [investigative] police into organized crime, were located. After several excavations, they found more than ten thousand bones and 250 skulls.
Journalist Miroslava Breach was murdered March 23 in Chihuahua. She was a correspondent for La Jornada and the El Norte newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, which subsequently closed its doors. Her killers hunted her - surely after spying on her for days - when she got in her car outside her house. It was morning and she wasn't alone. Her body was lying to the right of the driver's seat.
In November 2016, after giving an interview, the then-governor on leave of Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, fled. This was after the PRI member had already been accused of irregularities for accumulating a state debt above 64 billion pesos [US$3.5 billion at current exchange rates]. Hours after this, the first warrant for his arrest was issued. Currently, he is accused of at least three crimes: embezzlement, criminal association and operations with illicitly-procured resources.
All these cases, some linked to narcotrafficking and organized crime, others to government corruption, remain unpunished. Mexico is a lawless country where cases of murder, attacks, revenge, death and blood, corruption and impunity are growing.
There is no place left free. Business owners are extorted or kidnapped, politicians abuse and steal money from the people, officials use the assets of the nation, students are kidnapped at all times of day and their bodies are never found, young people party and find death at high speed in a BMW [recent incident in Mexico City where the driver of a BMW ran over several young people]. Journalists have their words extinguished by bullets, or by government pressure. Governors have conflicts of interest and there are fugitive leaders.
In Mexico, justice doesn't exist for the majority. In Mexico, what stands out is the impunity of organized criminals and drug traffickers, as well as dishonest governors and corrupt police officers. In Mexico, bad men and women do what they want because they can.
Read the rest at Mexico Voices
Related: Government Is Corrupt But so Are Citizens: OECD Study Finds Many Mexicans Are Prepared to Pay Bribes (Mexico News Daily)
Related: Mexico Government Corruption and the Lack of a "Deep State" (Mexico Voices)
Translated by Rachel Alexander
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