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A team of independent investigators, probing the disappearance and alleged killing of 43 college students at the hands of criminal gangs in 2014 in Mexico, is set to dispute the government's account of what happened, reports said Friday.
[...] The international panel faced a sustained campaign of harassment, stonewalling and intimidation, The New York Times reported. The panel of experts alleged that the investigators endured planned attacks from Mexican news media and a refusal by the government to turn over documents or grant interviews with essential figures.
[...] The Mexican government had earlier concluded that the 43 students, who were in the city of Iguala in southwestern Mexico as part of a protest, were kidnapped by police officers working for criminal gangs, who then killed and incinerated them in a garbage dump of a nearby town.
The attorney general, who led the government probe, reportedly called the office's finding the "historic truth."
The independent investigators have opposed this version and maintained that the government's account of the events was based in part on confessions apparently extracted by torture. The panel also dismissed the theory that the students were burnt beyond identification at a rubbish dump as physically impossible.
Source: The International Business Times
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @07:38AM
The best thing US can do for Mexico is to end the War on Drugs.
Mexico won't have any drug lords any more.
The flow of money into Mexico to support corruption will wear thin as well.
And if you can't legalize drugs, then we should achieve the same things quoted above by building a Big Beautiful Wall... And that's why actual Mexicans love Trump.
They know they could still immigrate to the US if they wanted, so long as they don't have a criminal record, but a better wall would at least cut down on the forced prostitution rings and drug trafficking, and reduce the money paying off corrupt police and government. Search Keyword: "Autodefensa"
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 25 2016, @07:57AM
I looked [wikipedia.org].
I don't see anywhere the mention of them loving the idea of the "Big Beautiful Wall" or Trump for the matter...
Either you provide a citation or I'll feel this is BS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM
a citation [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday April 25 2016, @09:13AM
Then [soylentnews.org] I call bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 25 2016, @08:12AM
Actually, I don't know why we should give a damn wether Mexicans love Trump, or Obama, or any other president. Mexicans don't vote for their presidents based on how much the US likes their candidates. As for "actual Mexicans" - I can't help wondering WTF GP means by that. Mexicans aren't a monolithic voting block in the US or Mexico, any more than women are a monolithic voting block, or blacks, or Irish, or Russians.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday April 25 2016, @04:07PM
I think a distinction is being drawn between "actual Mexicans" as in general opinion among Mexicans in both Mexico and America vs the La Raza / Univision Community Organizers who get all of the face time on the boob tube.
(Score: 2) by devlux on Monday April 25 2016, @11:20PM
FYI prostitution is perfectly legal down here. As long as she is age of consent, it's considered a woman's choice what she wants to do with her body or how much she wants to sell it for.
I've known several ladies who choose the line of work and never met one with a pimp down here.
Oh yeah maybe that's because pimping and human trafficking is life in federal prison on a chain gang!
What is it in the USA now? Probation for the pimp and a minimum year in jail for the girls? Unless of course the girl is 17.99 years old then it's LWOP for the pimp.
A fence isn't going to stop coyotes, they'll dig under it, or go around it or bribe their way through.
Hell I'm a 10th generation US Citizen, with an honorable military service record and even I have more problems getting across on the rare occasion I need to, than they do.
Now setting a first time offense of jailing business owners who hire illegals knowingly or not and 10 years in prison on a second offense, might actually do something to stop it. But at that point you're tackling the source of the problem which is the demand side, not the supply side.
eVerify is a thing and it has been for quite awhile, but businesses need to use it, and there need to be real penalties to the business. The kind that cripple the company financially and give real jail time to the offenders. Otherwise you may as well not even have it.
If you did that, what you would find is far less businesses hiring illegals, but the illegals just setup shops and businesses of their own.
Nationalism is the real problem, stop being prejudiced based on where someone was born and raised. Stop with that, just let folks alone. Give those who come to your country through whatever means, a clear path to citizenship that isn't full of pitfalls that will get them discarded err deported and you'll see the illegal immigration problem cease.
But you can't ask others to change. You have to be the change.