Drug war graves unveil drama of Mexico's disappeared - swissinfo: "In an echo from some of Latin America's military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s, Mexico's National Commission Human Rights has documented 5,397 disappeared people since 2006.
But it says the real figure is much higher as many victims' families are too frightened to come forward, not trusting the authorities. In many cases, corrupt police are involved in the disappearances, or at least turn a blind eye to them.
'People are just disappearing, a lot of the time in groups, and there is no demand for ransom payments,' said Blanca Martinez, a Catholic human rights group in the northern state of Coahuila that borders Texas. 'A week doesn't go by without us registering a new case.'"
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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