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narcoblogger has stepped into the breach left by Mexican journalists, who dare not report as they used to do. Thirty journalists have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon started his war on the drug cartels in 2006, making Mexico the most deadly country in Latin America for the media. Most are victims of the drug cartels, not caught in crossfire but targeted for reporting what is going on. Last month, four reporters from the central Mexican state of Durango were kidnapped after reporting a prison riot, which followed the revelation that the prison governor was allowing inmates to go out at night and commit murders. The journalists were freed only after their TV station agreed to broadcast a video, produced by one of the drug cartels, which showed corrupt policemen who were apparently working for a rival cartel. Today, attention has turned to Tamaulipas state where police have found 72 unburied bodies dumped on a ranch. They are presumably victims of the ever more vicious drug war, which in this part of Mexico pits Los Zetas against the Gulf Cartel. In recent weeks, the industrial city of Monterrey, Mexico’s wealthiest, has been almost brought to a standstill by cartel road blocks, kidnaps and gunbattles, following the murder of a local mayor. Police chiefs, political candidates and senior state officials are frequently targeted for assassination. The drug gangs are trying to seize the Mexican state, and closing down the media is just one part of their plan.

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Mexican police rape allegations need outside investigation

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Mexican police rape allegations need outside investigation: "allegations made by an Ontario woman that she was raped by Mexican police are so serious, and the details so disturbing, that Mexican authorities should bring in a credible third party to assist in the investigation.

It is in their own best interests to do so. In an area that relies exclusively on tourism, they have little choice. The confidence of the travelling public is at stake.

Rebecca Rutland, 41, says police in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen took her and her fiance into custody on New Year's Eve. Whether police had reason to do so is not the issue. It is the couple's treatment after they were taken into custody that is in question.

Rutland says two police officers took turns raping her. She and her fiance, Richard Coleman, also allege officers robbed them of hundreds of dollars and other valuables. Mexican authorities deny the visitors' version of events and say the two were intoxicated."

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Flavio Mendez Santiago, known as 'El Amarillo', was arrested on Monday

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Flavio Mendez Santiago, known as 'El Amarillo', was arrested on Monday near Oxaca City in the south of the country.
The 35 year-old is said by police to have been one of the founders of Los Zetas, and was responsible for co-ordinating the trafficking of drugs and migrants throught the south.
Thousands of migrants from Central America hoping to travel through Mexico to to the US border are believed to fall victim to criminal organisations like Los Zetas every year. Some of them are recruited to traffic drugs in exchange for help in getting to the US, while others are kidnapped, then held to ransom. If the ransom is not delivered, they are often murdered."

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