Reuters
Jun 25, 2013
Mexican security forces on Tuesday rescued 52 kidnapped migrants, mostly Guatemalans, who were being held in a house in the violent state of Tamaulipas near the U.S. border.
The migrants had been held for several days in a house in the city of Reynosa, where they were found by a group of federal and state police, officials said.
The group was made up of 48 men from Guatemala, two from El Salvador and two more from Mexico, a press release from the state government said. Read more.
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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