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Feature Article: This month's feature article has a gruesome title but with 16,000 killings alone in Sinaloa over the past two decades, and thousands more in other states that are joined by the border dynamic of supplying illegal drugs to the US at any human cost, the notion of a bloodbath is not an exaggeration. Added to the horror of tens of thousands of lost lives is how the drug murders and violence of the past twenty years are linked to a previous cycle of political violence in Mexico during the 1960s and 70s. During that time so-called Dirty Warriors abducted, tortured and murdered Mexican citizens that were calling for political reform and economic justice. Today, some of these same human rights abusers have taken their sick talents into Mexico's crime circles. A topic that FNS has been following closely for years--the serial rape-murders of young women at the border--also relates to this drug/political violence as law-enforcement officers related to some investigations of the women's slayings are now themselves suspects in kidnapping and drug rings. Indeed, many victims' families have been saying for years that police must be involved with the crimes at some level because of the impunity that the rapist-murderers have enjoyed for over a decade. Daily News: Departments: |
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