Hundreds of Mexican mothers of disappeared urgently demand solutions 3 minutes read
By Ines Amarelo
Mexico City, May 10 (EFE).- Hundreds of mothers of disappeared persons in Mexico on Monday demanded urgent solutions to the many ongoing crimes of that kind that took their loved ones from them, noting that, despite it being Mother’s Day, for them “there’s no longer any May 10.”
“We came to demand (a solution), because for us there’s no longer any May 10. I have a disappeared son and they destroyed a whole family,” said Maria de Jesus Gonzalez, whose son disappeared in 2010 when he was abducted from a party along with two other young men in Torreon, in the northern state of Coahuila.
Washington’s bankrupt drug‐war and drone‐war initiatives have both come home to roost on America’s own southern border. Decades of U.S. policy ineptitude have empowered Mexico’s drug cartels to the point that they now pose an alarming threat to the country’s basic social order.
Now the violence in Mexico is beginning to exhibit a greater high‐tech sophistication. In late April, the Jalisco cartel attacked police in the western state of Michoacan with explosive‐laden drones, wounding two officers. It was merely the latest development in just one theater of the country’s ongoing chaos.
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Christopher Landau, U.S. ambassador to Mexico during the Trump administration, said during a roundtable event with former diplomats last week that drug cartels control between 35 and 40 percent of Mexican territory.
“I think there is no doubt that they play a broad role in the governance of Mexico,” Landau said.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he added, has taken a passive approach to the cartels. “He sees the cartels as his Vietnam,” Landau said, noting that López Obrador has tried to avoid open conflict, and instead adopted a “
laissez faire attitude towards the cartels.”
In comments Wednesday, López Obrador dismissed Landau’s assessment, saying, “It’s not like that,” and boasting, somewhat implausibly, that he travels all over Mexico without bodyguards.
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