From the violent border cities where drugs are brought into the United States to the remote highland regions where poppies and marijuana are harvested, residents and human rights groups describe an increasingly brutal war in which the government, led by the army, is using harsh measures to battle the cartels that continue to terrorize much of the country.
In Puerto Las Ollas, a mountain village of 50 people in the southern state of Guerrero, residents recounted how soldiers seeking information last month stuck needles under the fingernails of a disabled 37-year-old farmer, jabbed a knife into the back of his 13-year-old nephew, fired on a pastor, and stole food, milk, clothing and medication.
In Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, two dozen policemen who were arrested on drug charges in March alleged that, to extract confessions, soldiers beat them, held plastic bags over their heads until some lost consciousness, strapped their feet to a ceiling while dunking their heads in water and applied electric shocks, according to court documents, letters and interviews with their relatives and defense lawyers.
The officers were detained at a military base for more than a month.
Mexican officials acknowledged that abuses have occurred in the fight against traffickers but described the cases as isolated. In some instances, drug traffickers may be accusing the army of torture and other human rights violations as propaganda and to deflect attention from the government's efforts to dismantle their operations, the officials said.
"I know that the armed forces are not acting inappropriately, although there have been some cases," said Interior Minister Fernando Gómez Mont, who is responsible for coordinating security operations across Mexico. "The government honestly believes that. There is no incentive for abuse."
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- ClipsFC
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People call them drug-dealers, organized crime, corrupt cops/army-men, etc, but the truth is with the things they do, they should be called psychopaths. Every day you see in the paper at least one headless body left on the street. WTF?? This place is pure anarchy.
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- rodrigosaenz
- 4 months ago
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Give the cartels a dose of their own medicine.
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- Flamencali
- 4 months ago
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gee, if only there were a way to end all this....
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Sad that the rural community of Mexico thinks helping the drug lords with their farmland is beneficial, when really they just end up trapped in the cartel cycle of senseless violence.
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Fascinating stuff really.
For a country that was statistically becoming partially democratic: we haven't helped to create demo much. Or even you know end Anarchy.
Failed drug policy kills. We all have a responsibility to end this.
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just wait till things go wrong here and see what happens hell is on the way..
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so what
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- in4itsover
- 4 months ago
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Fuck the Mexican government!!, I used to work in a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, there's a lot a evidence that the military are doing a lot of the executions in the city. There's going to come the day when the people in going to take revenge by their own hands.....is not a good thing but in the situation that we are living where the government does not protect the people there's no other choice.
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I agree with Robert S
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- Flamencali
- 4 months ago
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what do you expect from mexico?
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- FuriousLion
- 4 months ago
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What expectations does the US have concerning its own drug habit and the flow of guns into Mexico? Mexico is not in this alone. It's so convenient to think the US has no part of the blame, isn't it.
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- Flamencali
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