Neuf policiers tués dans une embuscade dans le sud du Mexique.
Le Monde.fr
06.02.2013
Neuf policiers mexicains ont été tués mardi 5 février dans une embuscade tendue par un groupe d'hommes armés à Apaxtla de Castrejon, dans le sud du Mexique. La zone de l'attaque, isolée par la police pour les besoins de l'enquête, se situe dans une région de production et de transit de drogue, aux confins des Etats de Guerrero, de Michoacan et de Mexico. Des organisations liées au puissant cartel des Zetas y livrent une guerre sanglante à l'organisation concurrente des Chevaliers templiers, basée dans le Michoacan.
Dans l'Etat de Guerrero, un des plus violents du pays, un millier de paysans ont récemment pris les armes pour se substituer à la police dans le combat contre le crime organisé et ses bandes affiliées qui harcèlent les habitants. Au cours des six dernières années, la violence liée aux narcotrafiquants a fait plus de 70 000 morts au Mexique, essentiellement lors d'affrontements entre groupes criminels et au cours d'opérations militaires contre les cartels, selon les chiffres du nouveau gouvernement arrivé au pouvoir en décembre.
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Mexique : un journal cesse de couvrir la criminalité pour la "sécurité" de ses employés.
12.03.2013
Le monde.fr
Le quotidien Zocalo, publié dans l'Etat de Coahuila, au nord du Mexique, a annoncé lundi 11 mars dans son éditorial qu'il cessait de traiter l'actualité liée au crime organisé pour des raisons de sécurité.
"Etant donné qu'il n'y a pas ni garanties ni sécurité pour l'exercice du journalisme, le conseil éditorial des journaux Zocalo a décidé (...) de s'abstenir de publier toute information traitant du crime organisé", écrit l'éditorialiste du journal publié à Saltillo, la capitale de l'Etat. Cette décision "est basée sur notre responsabilité de veiller à l'intégrité et à la sécurité de plus de mille travailleurs, de leurs familles et de la notre", souligne le journal.
Le 4 mars, le directeur d'un site d'information de l'Etat du Chihuahua, frontalier avec les Etats-Unis, avait été assassiné, criblé d'au moins 18 balles tirées par un commando. Deux jours auparavant, les bâtiments du quotidien Diario de Juarez et d'un chaîne locale de télévision avaient été l'objet de tirs de la part de groupes d'hommes armés.
Le Mexique est l'un des pays les plus dangereux pour la presse, avec plus de 80 journalistes tués depuis 2000 et 18 disparus, selon la Commission nationale des droits de l'homme. Pendant la même période 28 attaques contre des médias ont été enregistrées. Le Nord du Mexique est l'une des zones les plus affectées par la violence liée aux narcotrafiquants, et qui a fait quelque 70 000 morts depuis 2006, date du lancement d'une offensive anti-drogue avec l'appui de l'armée par l'ex-président Felipe Calderon.
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Mexique : 26 121 cas de disparition sous la présidence Calderon
Le Monde.fr avec AFP
02-26-2013
Un total de 26 121 cas de disparition ont été enregistrés au Mexique entre fin 2006 et fin 2012, pendant le mandat de l'ex-président Felipe Calderon, selon le gouvernement. "Cette base de données ne fait pas mention des motifs de ces disparitions" qui ne sont "pas nécessairement liées à des faits criminels", a expliqué la sous-secrétaire aux droits de l'homme, Lia Limon.
Dès son arrivée au pouvoir en décembre 2006, le gouvernement conservateur de Felipe Calderon a décidé le déploiement de 50 000 militaires et de milliers de policiers fédéraux dans une offensive contre les trafiquants de drogue. La vague de violences qui s'en est suivie a fait quelque 70 000 morts, selon les estimations du nouveau gouvernement.
En l'absence de statistiques officielles pendant cette période, de nombreuses associations de défense des droits de l'homme ont dénoncé de nombreux cas de disparition. La semaine dernière, Human Rights Watch a rapporté avoir recensé au cours des six dernières années 249 cas de "disparitions forcées", c'est-à-dire de cas de personnes disparues aux mains des forces de sécurité, et qui n'ont jamais été retrouvées.
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Unabated Violence Poses Challenge to Mexico’s New Anticrime Program
The New York Times
By Randal C. Archibold
February 18, 2013.
MEXICO CITY — The new Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, campaigned on a promise to reduce the violence spawned by the drug trade and organized crime, and to shift the talk about his nation away from cartels and killings.
But even as he rolled out a crime prevention program last week and declared it the government’s new priority, a rash of high-profile mayhem threatened to undercut his message and raise the pressure to more forcefully confront the lawlessness that bedeviled his predecessor.
The southwestern state of Guerrero, long prone to periodic eruptions of violence, has proved a challenge once again. Gang rapes of several women have occurred in and around the faded resort town of Acapulco, including an attack this month on a gripus from Spain that garnered worldwide headlines, and an ambush killed nine state police officers in a mountainous no-man’s land. Out of frustration that the state was not protecting them, rural towns in Guerrero have taken up arms to police themselves. (read more)
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Human Rights Watch Faults Mexico Over Disappearances
By Randal C. Archibold
The New York Times
February 20, 2013
MEXICO CITY — Nearly 150 people and possibly hundreds more have disappeared at the hands of Mexico’s police and military during the drug war with little or no investigation of the cases, a human rights group said Wednesday, as it called on the new government to account for the country’s missing.
The organization, Human Rights Watch, said in a report that Mexico has “the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades.” The group found a litany of cases in which witnesses reported people had been abducted or were last seen with the military or the police, never to be seen again. (read more)
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5 Found slain outside Mexican capital
Fox News Latino
14November 2012Five people were found dead inside an abandoned car in the capital suburb of Ecatepec, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Police are working to identify the four men and a woman whose bodies were discovered in a parking lot, the Mexico state Attorney General's Office said in a statement. The statement did not specify a cause of death, but state officials said off the record that the victims were shot. Left with the bodies was a message from the Gulf drug cartel, media accounts said. Mexico's cartels and other criminal outfits often leave notes at crime scenes to claim responsibility for murders and threaten additional violence against rivals or authorities. The six-year term of President Felipe Calderon - who leaves office Nov. 30 - has seen at least 60,000 killings related to conflict among competing drug cartels and between the gangs and security forces. Within days of taking office in December 2006, Calderon gave Mexico's military the leading role in the struggle against drug trafficking. EFE Copyright Fox News Latino (read more)
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Mexico Profile
(para leer en español haga click aqui)
During the twentieth century, Mexico had a long series of military dictatorships followed by one-party dominance by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which finally ended in the election of 2000. The PRI has returned to power in the 2012 elections. Since 2000, the government’s war against drug cartels has made Mexico one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
Past Crimes Against Humanity
In 2004, the supreme court of Mexico sentenced ex-President Luis Echeverria for having murdered thousands of students on June 10th of 1971 in the massacre known as “Jueves de Corpus” or “Thursday of Corpses”, in the heart of Mexico City. The massacre was carried out by a paramilitary group called “Los Halcones”, which the government armed with rifles to put down a largely non-violent student protest.”
The massacre of Tlatelolco occurred on October 2 of 1968 when Mexico was hosting the Olympic Games. President Diaz Ordaz ordered security forces to disperse a rally of students in Mexico City. When the students did not immediately disperse, police and paramilitary forces moved in. They began shooting, and the crowd was caught in a murderous cross fire. Hundreds fell dead and many more were wounded. There has never been an inquiry, prosecution or convincing explanation for the slaughter from military or civilian authorities.
Current Gendercide
Since 1990 in Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, USA, over 500 women have disappeared, usually on their way to or from work, and many of their bodies have been buried in shallow graves. The Mexican police have been unable to solve or stop these serial murders.
The murders have been hate crimes, ritual acts of rape and mutilation of impoverished, indigenous Mexican women and girls. A majority of the victims are poor migrant women from small villages and cities in the interior of Mexico, coming to Ciudad Juárez not to cross the border, but to find a job at maquiladora, a business organized since the NAFTA free trade agreement with the US, or as motel or hotel maids, or to attend schools. Police investigations have shown the victims share the same physical profile. Most are between the ages of 12 and 23, slim, short, dark-haired and dark-skinned.
Although some people have identified some root causes of this gendercide such as, machismo, sexism, domestic violence, armed gangs in the area, and drug cartels; families of the victims have been denied access to information about investigations by the Mexican police, and Mexico has not requested full assistance from more professional US investigators. Mexican police have even told families that their daughters “were misbehaving when they got lost,” – an accusation unsupported by a shred of evidence. There have been cases when families have found their daughters’ bodies in shallow graves, but they often have difficulty identifying them because the bodies are so badly decomposed. Frequently the only evidence they can find are articles of clothing that their daughters owned. The police have offered no DNA identification assistance. There was such serious suspicion that the notoriously incompetent and corrupt Mexican police were covering up evidence, that the President of Mexico sent in special agents from the Federal police to investigate the murders.
Hijas de Regreso a Casa (May Our Daughters Return Home) and Justicia para Nuestras Hijas (Justice for Our Daughters) have been organized by victims’ mothers to press for investigations and prevention of these murders. There have been increasing threats and attacks against womens’ human rights activists who are working for capture and imprisonment of the killers of these murdered women. According to organizations in Mexico, Chihuahua has the highest womens’ homicide rate in the world, with 35 murders for each 100,000 women, 15 times higher than the average womens’ homicide rate in the world.
Threats to indigenous peoples in Mexico
Mexico has been ruled by a white, europeanized aristocracy since its conquest by the Conquistadores. Its indigenous “Indian” groups have been suppressed and exploited. Mayans and other indigenous communities have suffered violence for centuries. The Mexican government continues to tolerate attacks by armed militias working for large white landowners (latifundios).
In May 2012, threats against Mayans living in Chiapas state included demands that they move out of their homes and off their land. Some Mayans have already been killed. On 19 May 2012, a Mayan leader received a written warning that said “Damn Indians, get away from here with your dead, get …out of here, and take your human rights with you. We’ve only just started the party, soon there will be food for the vultures”.” (“maltidos indios, larguense con sus muertos, saquense a….con todo y sus derechos humanos. Apenas comenzamos la fiesta, pronto habrá comida para los Zopilotes”).
Armed revolutionary groups have organized to defend the rights of indigenous peoples. Most of them have adopted Marxist ideologies. In 1994, the day NAFTA went into effect, a guerrilla movement in the state of Chiapas held a public protest to denounce capitalism. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), a guerrilla group, has kidnapped several political leaders and civilians, and held them for ransom. Other guerrilla groups, including the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), and the Insurgent People’s Revolutionary Army (ERPI) have also used kidnapping to raise money. The groups are usually made up of Marxist students, and under-employed professionals and workers, rather than peasants.
Drug cartels, organized and unorganized crime
Since the 1970’s, a major challenge to the sovereignty of the Mexican government has come from drug trafficking cartels. During 2007 more than 2500 people were killed, many of them innocent civilians, and during 2008 the death toll rose to more than 6000. The death toll from drug cartel murders rose to over 47,500 in 2011.
People in Mexico are exhausted by the continuous violence that has made Mexico so dangerous. Because neither the military nor the federal government, through its police forces, have successfully stopped the violence, community “para-police” militias have been organized to fight drug cartels, just as they were in Colombia. If the plague of drug cartel killing is not stopped, Mexican society will descend into anarchy.
To fight the drug cartels, armed ranchers’ militias have been formed known as the “army that liberates the people”, and have hung banners with messages threatening the drug traffickers. However, two drug cartel financed groups, “The Black Command” and “The Avenger of the People”, have also hung messages accusing a former leader of the ranchers of directing a drug cartel himself. And to make things worse, the decentralized, ultraviolent crime group known as “Los Zetas” literally beheads scores of people and leaves their dismembered bodies in public squares.
Genocide Watch considers Mexico to be at Stage 5, Polarization due to Mexico’s polarized political, ethnic, and criminal groups and due to death threats against indigenous groups and women. Genocide Watch recommends:
- Full investigations must be conducted into threats made against Mayans and other indigenous peoples.
- Protection of women should be a priority. The US should offer training and help Mexican investigators of the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez. The World Bank and the Inter-American Bank should grant loans to increase the capacity of the Mexican police to recruit more women, and reduce violence against women.
- Effective anti-corruption laws and enforcement must be priorities for the Mexican government.
- The US should offer all its investigative, technological, and prosecutorial resources to help the Mexican government break the grip of the drug cartels on Mexico.
- The cultural roots of violence in Mexico should be investigated, including sexism, machismo, poverty, unemployment, and racism against indigenous peoples. Aid for preventive education should be a priority for international institutions to prevent further massacres and violence.
Please send information and comments to mexico@genocidewatch.org.
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COMUNIDAD INDÍGENA BAJO AMENAZA EN MÉXICO
Amnistia Internacional
19 de Mayo 12012
La comunidad de Valle del Río San Pedro, en el suroeste de México, recibió el 19 de mayo una amenaza de muerte en la que le ordenaban que abandonara sus hogares. Algunos miembros de la comunidad ya han sido víctima de homicidio anteriormente, y la comunidad corre grave peligro de sufrir nuevos ataques (lea más).
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| Denuncian organizaciones chihuahuenses ante la ONU, la situación de violencia contra las mujeres en ese estado.
Por Justicia para nuestras Hijas
16 de julio de 2012.
El día de hoy, organizaciones chihuahuenses presentaron ante 23 expertas del Comité para la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra las Mujeres (CEDAW) de la ONU, un informe sobre la situación de las mujeres chihuahuenses.
Las organizaciones del estado externaron su preocupación porque Chihuahua tiene posiblemente la tasa de homicidios de mujeres más alta en el mundo, con 34.73 asesinatos por cada 100,000 mujeres. 15 veces más alta que la tasa de homicidios de mujeres a nivel mundial, que es de 2.6asesinatos por cada 100,000 mujeres. Además, se señala que en el último año se denunciaron en promedio dos violaciones sexuales, por día en el estado (lea más)
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23 July 2009 "Ambushed by a drug war" by William Booth, Washington Post Foreign Service
1 August 2008 "Women’s Struggle for Justice and Safety: Violence in the Family in Mexico," by Amnesty International
12 July 2008 "Report Accuses Military of Human Rights Abuses," by Elisabeth Malkin, The New York Times
20 March 2008 "Troubled Waters," by Survival International
30 November 2006 "Mexican Court Orders Ex-President Tried in ’68 Student Massacre," by James McKinley, The New York Times
1 July 2006 "Mexico Charges Ex-President in '68 Massacre," by James McKinley, The New York Times
27 February 2006 "Report on Mexican 'Dirty War' Details Abuse by Military," by Ginger Thompson, The New York Times
23 September 2005 "No Arrest for Ex-President of Mexico," by Antonio Betancourt, The New York Times
20 September 2005 "Ex-President of Mexico Charged in Massacre," by Antonio Betancourt, The New York Times
1 September 2005 "After Decades, Nations Focus on Rights Abuses," by Larry Rohter, The New York Times.
25 July 2004 "Mexican Ex-Ruler Avoids Charges," by Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post
15 July 2004 "Ex-Leader of Mexico May Be Prosecuted," by Kevin Sullivan, The Washington Post
28 July 2003 "A Mexican Village Mourns Its Abducted Sons," by Ginger Thompson, The New York Times
4 July 2003 "World Briefing: Americas," by Tim Weiner, The New York Times
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