By: E. Gómez and A. E. Muñoz | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat
April 16,2016—The Brigada
Nacional en Busca de Personas Desaparecidas en Veracruz: Buscándolos nos
Encontramos (National Brigade in
Search of Disappeared Persons in Veracruz: Looking for Them, We Found Ourselves) made their first discovery: 11
clandestine graves with charred remains, after four days of exploratory work.
“That’s how a
disappeared ends in Mexico, it’s the horror that the Mexican government buries,”
said Mario Vergara, a member of Los Otros
Desaparecidos de Iguala (The Other Disappeared of Iguala).
This past Friday, with
data from an anonymous source, the brigade left from Amatlán de los Reyes
towards a coffee plantation in the community of San Rafael Calería, next to Córdoba,
the hometown of Javier Duarte de Ochoa, the governor of Veracruz.
The marked point was
located under some vanilla and cedar trees.
After cordoning off the area, the families began monitoring the
area. They sought subsidence, a point
where the rod that detects pits nailed easily.
The anonymous messenger
described the place as a large “kitchen”, where the criminal group Los Zetas
disintegrated their victims. After
burning them with diesel and gasoline in steel drums, they would bury the remains
in small hollow spaces and covered them with dirt.
The brigade members didn’t
have to dig a lot. At half a meter from
the surface, they found vertebrae, kneecaps, and remains of femurs. They were porous and calcined. They seems to have been buried for a long
time because from digging, the dirt was rooted.
“Here is the proof that
Mexico is a clandestine cemetery,” said one of the mothers of the group Voces Unidas por la Vida-Sabuesos de Sinaloa
(Voices United for Life-Bloodhounds of Sinaloa).
Later, the activist Juan
Carlos Herrera said indignantly: “The governor has the bodies of missing
persons buried in the courtyard of Córdoba, his homeland.”
In one hour, the
families of Veracruz, in the company of relatives of missing persons in Coahuila,
Sinaloa, Michoacán and Iguala, discovered 11 graves and had to stop working,
not for lack of evidence, but because they finished the material needed to
identify the findings.
“We thought it would be
three or four, but there are more here, we don’t have any more material to open
up the graves, identify them, and protect them,” said Alma Rosa Rosas, of the
group Voices United for Life-Bloodhounds of Sinaloa.
Three hours after Araceli
Salcedo Jiménez, from the Colectivo
Familias de Desaparecidos Orizaba y Córdoba (Collective Families of the
Disappeared Orizaba y Córdoba), reported the discovery of the graves, staff
from the attorney general’s office of the state based in Córdoba arrived at the
site to pick up the remains.
Attorney General’s Office: They Aren’t
Human Remains
During the night, the
attorney general’s office reported that after the first expert proceedings, the
remains located in San Rafael Calería do not correspond with human
remains. “After carrying out the first
steps contained in international protocols in people search, the specialists
only found scraps of wood and synthetic fabrics.”
In response, members of
the National Brigade in Search of Disappeared Persons issued an ultimatum in
the sense that if the government of Veracruz doesn’t retract its “absurd and full
of lies” statement, they will break their relationship on Friday and on
Saturday, they will be prohibited from entry onto the premises. “They offend our intelligence and minimize
the citizen process, if it is like this, we will act with the Federation,” said
Juan Trujillo Herrera.
Yesterday, families of
missing persons in Veracruz asked the president of the National Commission of
Human Rights, Luis Raúl González Pérez, to form a committee to investigate this
problem, which they said, during the government of Javier Duarte, became a “pandemic”.
The district attorney
in the state has 1,550 registered cases of missing persons, “but we know that
the dark figure of the facts can be from 10 or 15 for each one denounced. I’m almost sure that the figure is between
10,000 and 20,000 disappeared in the state,” said Lucía de los Ángeles Díaz,
from the collective Solecito de Veracruz (Little
Sun of Veracruz).
Lucía, mother of Luis
Guillermo Lagunes, 29, abducted from his bedroom three years ago, said that at
least 70% are cases of forced disappearance.
“The police in Veracruz does what it wants, without any control or
restrictions. It has committed more
crimes than the criminals,” she said.
Source: La Jornada
Wow Mexican government sure insults people's intelligence saying they were animal bones and charred 1's at that!1 person also said the cops kill more than the criminals!They[the cops] must be working for the criminals!How sad is that?
ReplyDeleteGood article Valor. Thanks!
Delete@ canadiana; it seems that your reading skills are on par with your writing abilities. Where does the article state that the government said that what was found was animal bones?
That is standard answer when government gets cornered, if the remains are proven to be human, they immediately become casualties of war, killed by army or police, in combat, even before the bodies are cold, javier duarte de ochoa controls the states attorney, and epn, he has shared the money and, his partners are finding out, he shared la caca too, he must be covered up and defended, like bertie boy moreira and Tomas yarrington...and ABC bours...
Delete8:06-The Attorney General's office said they didn't correspond to human remains.[If not human what bone remains could they be besides human OR animal?]
DeletePretty sure it's reference to previous stories. Which it's been said Tobe animal bones. Good thing you came on here to judge people writing abilities.
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DeleteSi dice que dijeron lee bien porque aqui el unico animal eres tu,como dudas de la inteligencia de mi girlfriend la canadiana guey..?
Dopeboy.
"They are pieces of wood and synthetic fibers", said the state of veracruz "procurador de justicia del estado", a tool of javier duarte de ochoa, "la marrana"...
Delete--The volunteers don't know the difference, apparently...
What they need to do is keep the evidence to themselves, and c
Document everything, maybe share half of everything, but not with any veracruz sate "authorities", they are the criminals disappearing the people...
At 8:06. Before you critique someone's writing abilities, proofread your post and check your puncuations. We are here to post our opinions. We aren't on here to get schooled by a grammar nazi.
DeleteBoo Hoo and all the cartel nut-lickers were all upset when the army got a bit rough with a female kidnapper.
ReplyDeleteThis is where the kidnap victims are dumped!
Not just kidnap victims, many are murder victims to depopulate Ranchos and land politicians want, or fracking operations want, 5he really is always some big operation that needs to remove people from their properties, just check since when they own their lands, the great majority have pretty much recently been acquired, and used the government, state sponsored terrorism, sicarios, army and paramilitary to do their depopulation.
DeleteKidnapping for ransom is just like a mental game to scare a few away before the killing starts for reals.
Pemex new owners could be to blame?
DeleteI believe in the Veracruz statement, cmon now not all Gov are corrupted. People, Families relax everything is fine in Veracruz.
ReplyDelete6:52 tu eres un pendejo, all the veracruz government IS corrupt and rotten, but only a few get to steal all the money they want and kill all they need...
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