AP: Miguel Angel Jimenez, a political activist who played a prominent early role in the search for 43 students and other missing people in southern Mexico, was slain over the weekend, an associate said Monday.
The bullet-ridden body of Jimenez, a member of the Union of Towns and Organizations, or UPOEG for its initials in Spanish, was found in a car near a town where he had helped found a community police program. 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.
Showing posts with label Guerreros Unidos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guerreros Unidos. Show all posts
Jan 9, 2015
Headless corpses found in troubled southern Mexico
AFP: At least 10 decapitated bodies and 11 heads have been discovered in unmarked graves in violence-plagued Guerrero state in southern Mexico, authorities said.
The hands and feet on the corpses had been tied and the victims had clearly been tortured, officials said Tuesday. Read more.
The hands and feet on the corpses had been tied and the victims had clearly been tortured, officials said Tuesday. Read more.
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