The police of the state of Mexico whack a poet while trying to whack a mole.
AFP: Mexico nabs alleged hitman linked to 900 killings: "Mexican police have detained an alleged leader of a group of hitmen linked to 900 killings, during an operation in which they mistakenly burst into civilian homes south of Mexico City.
Police brutally raided the house of a renowned poet by mistake, as well as two others nearby.
The attorney general's office of Mexico state, adjoining Mexico City, said the suspect, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, was detained early Thursday....
Garcia Montoya, who led a group nicknamed "The Hand with Eyes," was a former soldier and had trained with the Kaibiles special operations force of Guatemala's army, authorities said. ...
Mexican poet Efrain Bartolome and his wife Guadalupe Belmontes, a writer, complained Thursday that their house was targeted in the violent raid that netted Garcia Montoya."They threatened us, they threw us to the ground, they gave a slap in the head to my husband and shouted 'Where are the weapons?' before leaving, with no explanation," Belmontes told AFP."
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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