All Blog Posts Tagged 'Mexico' (162)

Been very busy of late, and am really grateful for the people who have been keeping active and engaged. Special thanks to Julie Jones for staying on top of missing persons news and forwarding relevant cases and doing outreach where she believes K9 search and rescue resources can be of assistance, and to …

The Durango Human Rights Commission received 35 reports of disappearances in 2009 and 70 in 2010. Unlike in other regions of Mexico, there are no non-governmental groups investigating those cases and dozens more which were not reported officially. 

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Mariana Corrigan, a Mexican citizen married to an American citizen living in Mission, Tex., has disappeared on Highway 2 between Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa. The family has only had one phone call since she went missing in May 4, demanding the ownership papers on the Tahoe that she was driving. Story says FBI can't get involved because she is Mexican citizen, even though her husband and four children are all U.S. citizens. What's their explanation, then, for not getting involved in any…

Authorities in Mexico are releasing new information on the arrest of a suspected Zeta believed to be linked to the mass killings in San Fernando. Martin Omar Estrada Luna, also known as El Kilo, is accused in more than 200 murders. Read full article.

At least one U.S. citizen is among a group of kidnapped bus passengers whose bodies could lie in a mass grave found in Mexico.U.S. officials confirmed in a statement on Sunday that an American man was one of those abducted by armed attackers on the Mexican border. Investigators said they had found a mass grave of 72 bodies, which could contain the bodies of the travellers, but they were unable to confirm the identities.…

Authorities in Mexico say security forces have found at least 59 bodies in a mass grave in the northern state of Tamaulipas, near the U.S. border. Government officials said police and military personnel found the mass grave while investigating the March 25 disappearance of several buses in the area. The state prosecutor's office said they are trying to determine…

Police are investigating the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens, gunned down while waiting to come into the U.S. at a border crossing near San Diego. According to the Baja, Calif., attorney general’s office, the two men were waiting in a white pickup truck at the San Ysidro border crossing on the Tijuana side when an unidentified man walked through the lanes of traffic and boldly unloaded five rounds from a 9-mm. handgun. 

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At least five people were killed and two others wounded in a wave of violence in Acapulco, a resort city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, where gunmen engaged soldiers and police in a shootout, and set fire to a crafts market.

The 30-minute shootout occurred Monday in the Pacific resort city's Emiliano Zapata neighborhood, where two gunmen and a soldier died, the Guerrero state Attorney General's Office said, adding that another soldier and a police officer were wounded.…

Read the BBC article. Let's just say I don't have a lot of faith in the Bahamas police or Club Mickey. This young lady's family deserves a serious investigation.…

Abigail Wagner of Summit, NJ, has been reported missing in Matamoros, MX. She has been living there a little over a year, creating art and contacting other artists living locally. Her family last heard from her Thursday morning (3/24/11). Her landlord called last night and said he has not seen her since Wednesday. He is contacting the police today, and the family called the consulate this morning.

Anyone with information can call Abigail's mother, Katherine, at…

While Arabs are ousting dictators, it's tyranny as usual in Cuba, where U.S. government contractor Alan Gross went on trial last week for espionage. Or at least that's what the Castro regime said took place. The civilized world doesn't know because the two-day proceeding was held behind closed doors. The regime simply announced that a verdict would soon be delivered, which could condemn the 61-year-old to 20 years in prison. Mr. Gross stands accused of bringing computer equipment to…

Seventeen-year old María Luz Foguet was last seen on February 23rd and her mother believes she was abducted for human trafficking. According to her mother, the teenager disappeared after attending a meeting with a man who had "promised to make her famous".Read full article.

If anyone knows more about this case, please share.

Thousands of people have vanished without a trace – some caught up in violence, others for no reason anyone can fathom. Relatives remain in agonized limbo. Important article in the LA Times. Please read.

Law enforcement bean arriving before sunrise ahead of the funeral at the Brownsville Event center. Read article.

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