with joan working to bring erica and joan together. see the reunion in the next couple of days. thanks for watching. around the world is next. welcome to around the world. i m suzanne malveaux. i m michael holmes. turkey, two people are dead, thousands injured, as anti-government protests continue in the streets. take a look at this. protesters directing anger at the government and security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons. we ll have the latest live from just ahead. the fbi wants you to help them find a u.s. marine reservist. they say torres was kidnapped along with his father and uncle by armed men across the boarder in northeastern mexico, about
city, that startling statistic, 26,000 people kidnapped in six years, should people go going, traveling, visiting mexico? the answer is depends where you re going. there are places in mexico where the murder rate is lower than canada. you can go to places like cancun where, yes, it has seen its share of violence but it s minimal compared to the stated along the border where you see most of the turf wars between the cartels. it all depends where you go. there are other places like acapulco which used to be safe, not anymore. it changes year to year. for the most part, americans are not being targeted because they are americans. sometimes american citizen like in this case gets in some sort of situation. but the suspicion is that, according to the family, whoever attacked this family was after the piece of land that the family has owned for generations and, again, strategic point for the cartels trying to smuggle drugs into the united states. okay.
is what she had to say. bring it to mexico s attention. this is a marine. a war hero. i don t want to lose hope that he s alive but at the same time it is a big reality. you ll probably notice our affiliate had to cover her face because she s afraid to speak in public. that gives you an idea how terrorized are the people in the count country. the state south of texas, near the gulf of mexico, i was taking a look at some numbers regarding kidnappings in mexico. out of the 20 cities and towns with the highest number of kidnappings 5 of the 20 are located in mataulipas. why? it s a fight between two powerful cartels, trying to control drug routes into the united states. talking about this before, but the 11 kidnapped in mexico
mexico practically every day. you ve got startling figures. tell but the figures and what happened here. for the last six years 26,000 people have been kidnapped in mexico. for the benefit of viewersing this area that we re talking, located near mcallen texas on the mexican side of the border. he was on the border. exactly three weeks ago on may 14, he decided to go across the border in mexico to visit his father who owns a ranch in the town. this is in the state, he has not been seen since. he disappeared, his father by the same name, and his uncle, all disappeared the same day. the family says they got a phone call, mysterious phone call the same week, saying they had been kidnapped but they have not had any communication ever since. one member of the family spoke with cnn affiliate kgbt and this
in latin america. hard to believe, but it s been 24 years since chinese troops and tanks moved in to crash a pro democracy protest in beijing s tiananmen square, that there on your screen. perhaps the most iconic image that sums up brutality of the crackdown. the young man facing off against a line of tanks. hundreds and possibl thousands of activists killed in the protest. the government has never given an official death toll. asking for help for finding a u.s. marine in mexico, torres kidnapped with his father and uncle by gunmen who showed up at his father s ranch. this happened across the boarder in northeastern mexico. it s 170 miles south of corpus christi, texas. it s been now 2 1/2 weeks since anyone has seen or heard from them, which is worrying. rafael romo joins us now. kidnaps have been going on in