In early March an expansive Clandestine burnt It was discovered in a ranch of the state of Western Jalisco of Jalisco, completed with burned human remains and 200 pairs of shoes. According to local officials, the apparent place of extermination was able to make the cartel of the new generation of Jalisco, which also used the ranch as a hiring and training center.
As Al Jazeera, John Holman, said in a video sending after the discovery, the « strange » was that the Mexican authorities had « captured the ranch five months ago, but did not report any infrastructure ». Instead, a group of volunteers dedicated to the missing people in Mexico was needed to discover the underground ovens.
Of the 32 states of Mexico, Jalisco is the one that has the most missing people, who had more than 15,000 at the end of February. Throughout the country, the official account of victims of the forced disappearance and the missing people reached 125,802 on March 26, although this figure is, without a doubt, a serious underestimation, given the frequent reluctance of the family members of the missing to report these crimes for fear of retaliation.
Cases of forced disappearance in Mexico began to increase, together with the murders, in 2006, the year that the then president-mexican Felipe Calderon launched the so-called « War against drugs« With the stimulus and support of his charity by Gringo, George W Bush.
As has been almost stopped in the course all ostensitive The world’s anti-narcotic efforts orchestrated by the United States, the Mexican drug war did nothing to stop international drug traffic, but much to make the country’s landscape more and more stored in blood. After all, the hyper-militaryation of Mexico in the name of the fight against drugs does not solve the fundamental problem of the demand for illicit substances in the Heaven in the United States, whose criminalization is what makes its traffic so attractive to organized crime costumes.
Nor, surely, does the Mexico flood With weapons manufactured by the United States they help matters, although the weapons industry allows a slaughter.
According to the official narrative, Mexico’s violence is the fault of the drug cartels, period. This rationalization conveniently excites the equation of the established trajectory of the Mexican state of murder and disappearance, without forgetting the long history of collaboration between Mexican police and military staff and Cartel operators.
Jalisco’s new generation cartel, a presumed Steward of the Secret Crematorium, was one of the several groups recently designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the administration of United States President Donald Trump, who has also been making noises on possible North -American military raids in Mexico to combat cartels.
This United States action would bring the old « war against drugs » to a totally new level, and as usual, Mexican civilians would be the ones who paid the price.
In the meantime, the Mexicans continue to disappear at a rate of mentality, the country turned into a massive pit in itself. In response to a government policy of not being raised a finger on behalf of the missing people and their families, volunteer organizations have been forced to take questions in their own hands and have often faced the anger of the state to do it.
For example, former Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo), who last year handed the national reigns to his ally. Claudia Sheinbaum – Once taken over himself accuse The Mexicans involved in the search for the lack of a « necrophilia delirium ». According to the National Register of missing and missing people in Mexico, a record of 10,064 people disappeared for a single year from the Mandate of Amlo, between May 2022 and May 2023, which had an average of 27.6 a day, or more than one person per hour.
And while Sheinbaum has been more vocally sympathetic than his predecessor to the situation of the families of the missing, particularly after the shocking news of Jalisco, a little sympathy here, and ultimately does nothing to disappear the landscape of institutionalized impunity. Amnesty International Now appointment 30 disappearances a day in Mexico. Less than a week after the discovery of Jalisco, the cremation ovens and human remains were found in the state of the Mexican north of Tamaulipas. And that, unfortunately, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Some cases of disappearing masses applied to Mexico have obtained international care, that is, Disappearance of September 2014 Of 43 students enrolled in a Teacher Training College of the city of Ayotzinapa in the state of Guerrero. Following the promise of justice, Amlo worked to obstruct the investigation into the episode, which was carried out with the complete complicity of the Mexican military and police forces operating in boxes with an organized crime. Eleven years later, meaningful justice prospects have disappeared.
I currently reside part -time at the Zipolite Coastal Village In the south of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where on March 1 they began to circulate that several young visitors from the State of Tlaxcala had been missing from the village the day before. A desperate mother went to social media to ask for help to locate her 23 -year -old, Jacqueline Meza, a mother of two young children, who had allegedly been abducted along with her boyfriend by a group of men.
When nine bodies were later found in an abandoned vehicle at zipolite hours on the border between the states of Oaxaca and Puebla, it was identified as belonging to Meza. Several local officials have been detained in relation to the massacre. An article from March 10 in El País Diari detailed the current « horror on the coast of Oaxaca », where a total of 16 people had been missing from the area in just two months.
Among the residents here in Zipolite, where police officers can be regularly seen in friendly conversations, in full public views, with the gifts of the local underworld, the predominant version of the events seems to be that Meza and the others were in fact criminals who had come to oxaca in order to steal establishments along the coast. They were « up to nothing », so gossips go, and therefore were the target of the narcos in the neighborhood, who make a maintenance point for a monopoly on crime in the area and punish outsiders who do not play for the rules. In this version, the detained officials were simply leaned to Narco’s orders.
As a de facto justification for forced disappearance and slaughter, reasoning « to nothing » is supreme worrying. And yet, it is also a logical defense mechanism, perhaps, in a country where the disappearance has become a way of life.
That is, to say -only people who step on the fingers of organized crime are eligible for the destination that Befell Jacqueline Meza and the company can create an illusion of personal security. In the end, however, this illusion can be mortal.
In recent months, I have traveled to several Mexican cities, including the capital of Mexico City Culiance In the state of Sinaloa, Casa del Cartel eponymous – and Juarez Ciudad In the state of Chihuahua, which is on the border of El Paso, Texas. In each place, I saw a poster after the poster with the faces of the missing Mexico, which was shown in the squares, plastered on electric sticks, hanging from the trees in front of the churches.
During a recent visit to the capital of Oaxacan in the city of Oaxaca, I saw a poster denouncing the disappearance of a 90 -year -old woman.
Most of the missing ones date from 2006 to the present, although some come from an earlier age of state oppression led by the United States: the good days of the Cold War of the Cold War of human rights abuse throughout Latin America, all in the name of communism.
The traumatic social effects of mass disappearance cannot be emphasized, as countless families of missing people are condemned to what is an indefinite emotional torture, incapable of mourning their loved ones without knowing what happened to them or where their bodies are.
But as the invisible war in Mexico disappears, the disappearance may already have standardized.
The opinions expressed in this article are their own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial position.
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