Nuevo León: Identified body of teenager leads to report of eight people disappeared in Nuevo Laredo

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Proceso
                  
                       
By Luciano Campos Garza

NUEVO LAREDO, Tams. After the discovery of a body of a teenager buried in a ranch in Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, the disappearance of eight people in this city was reported, in events that could be related to extrajudicial executions.

According to a source close to the investigations, who requested anonymity, the victims include two women.

This Tuesday, at 10 o'clock in the morning, the body of Ángel Ulises García Aguiñaga, 16, a high school student was found, who according to accounts of his friends was arrested by elements of the Navy-Navy Secretariat of Mexico (Semar).

The young man lived with his grandmother in the Itavu neighborhood of the city and was last seen at 6 pm Monday, March 19 by his uncle Óscar Santiago, who went out to look for him after realizing he had not arrived back home to sleep.

The friends of Angel Ulises notified the uncle that the marines who took the boy told them to look for him in the town of Colombia, municipality of Anáhuac, Nuevo León, 220 kilometers north of Monterrey, on the border with Texas. The Nuevo Leon municipality borders the territory of Nuevo Laredo.

According to the source, on Tuesday morning the uncle of Angel Ulises, accompanied by Francisca García Morales, traveled to the section of kilometer 127 of the Monterrey-Colombia highway, where a worker from the area notified them that a marine patrol had entered a private ranch.

The relatives went to said area, and about 200 meters from the road they found the body of the young man half-buried, with bruises on his head, for which they informed the municipal police of Anahuac, who in turn notified elements of the State Agency of Investigations, which up to this afternoon [March 20] continued to collect evidence in the area of the located body.

Series of Disappearance

The source explained that the complaint filed by the youth's relatives against the armed forces occurs at a time when eight disappearances have been reported in Nuevo Laredo, including two women, although it is unknown who was responsible.

A similar case to Angel Ulises’ was detected on Sunday, March 18 on the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway, in the town of La Gloria, 125 kilometers north of the capital of Nuevo León.

The body of a man about 30 years old was on a ranch, half-buried, with his hands tied behind his back with plastic cable ties.

After the Mexican Army discovered the body, until now not identified, ministerial elements transported it to the amphitheater of the University Hospital. It is believed that the victim was from Nuevo Laredo.

In another coincidence, a worker near the area was the one who gave notice to the authorities about the existence of the corpse.