Javier Sicilia: Mexico's Drug War Victims Still Demanding Justice Two Years Later Javier Sicilia - Proceso
go to original April 8, 2013

Javier Sicilia (ABC News)

The government of Enrique Peña Nieto has had an ambiguous relationship with the victims. On the one hand, it has recognized them and, with the General Law of Victims, has taken the road to assume the debt that the state has with them. On the other hand, it wants to delete the thousands of deaths that have occurred during its administration and whose number is as great or greater than that which occurred at the end of the administration of Felipe Calderón. There are states, such as Morelos, where there is the temptation to not take them into account, to avoid being dirtied by them, to want to return to the same explanations [of the deaths] with which the Calderon administration erased and despised them: "It's a settling of accounts", synonymous with "They are killing each other", which is an affirmation that the State is again beginning to abdicate its responsibility to the victims and against the criminals.

This is the climate that we are living in two years after the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) appeared. On one hand, there is the recognition of the victims who have yet to find justice. We still have not seen real criminals sentenced; we have not seen appear even one of the missing who are on the immense list revealed by the Secretary of Government Relations; we have not seen the creation of either the protocols for or the establishment of scientific DNA laboratories or forensic archaeologists that would allow us to entertain a hope. Meanwhile, on the other hand, in this administration the accumulation of more victims continues, whose existence they don't want to take into account.

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