June 2020. Gunmen wounded Mexico City’s chief of police and killed two of his bodyguards and a bystander, in a brazen ambush on his vehicle as it traveled through a wealthy neighbourhood that is home to ambassadors and business leaders. The police chief, Omar García Harfuch, tweeted hours after the shooting that the powerful Jalisco… Continue reading Jun 2020. The Horrors in Mexico Continue
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Jan 2020. The Disappeared in Mexico
January 2020. For years, Mexican newspapers have carried chilling tales of mothers searching for their missing children and discovering hidden graves. Now, for the first time, the federal government has disclosed the number of clandestine sites where those who have been disappeared in Mexico’s raging narco-violence have turned up. Nearly 5,000 bodies have been discovered… Continue reading Jan 2020. The Disappeared in Mexico
Apr 2015. Mexico Mass Killing of Students
April 2015. This clip highlights 43 Mexican student teachers missing since September 26th last year. They were all apparently murdered, then their bodies were incinerated in a remote rubbish tip beyond the south-western town of Iguala, where they went missing, with the remains put in the river.