RIGHTS: Forced Disappearances on the Rise in Mexico - IPS ipsnews.net: "Malena Reyes, her brother Elías and his wife Luisa Ornelas were kidnapped Feb. 7 in the municipality of Guadalupe in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were found two weeks later, in a case that is among those drawing international scrutiny.
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is gathering and analysing information about some 30 activists who have been forcibly disappeared, to include the cases in their 2012 report.
Malena and Elías are the sister and brother, respectively, of human rights activist Josefina Reyes, who was murdered in January 2010 in Ciudad Juárez, also in Chihuahua, a state on the border with the United States.
The family tragedy does not stop there. In 2009 Josefina's son, Julio César Reyes, was murdered, and in August 2010 another of her brothers, Rubén Reyes, was killed.
The three people in Guadalupe were the first documented case of forced disappearance and extrajudicial execution in Mexico this year.
As a result, the Mexican state can expect a sharp rebuke for its virtual inaction on what is considered a crime against humanity by the U.N., which has a mission of experts from the Working Group on an official visit to the country Mar. 18-31."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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