La Jornada: Fernando Camacho Servín
Pilar Calveiro, a professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, said that although there were some differences between the disappearances of previous decades and today, the phenomenon "continues with extraordinary tenacity due to collusion between the government as a whole, or some of its parts," and criminal groups.
Although he cautioned against making generalizations, the activist said that
They also explained how four young people from Veracruz were forcibly disappeared by the police of Juárez, Nuevo León, in collusion with members of the Los Zetas cartel.
Similarly, the Committee of Relatives and Friends of the Murdered, Disappeared and Kidnapped in Guerrero and the collective HIJOS México described several disappearances, committed both recently and in decades past, all with a lack of official investigation in common.
The next pre-hearing of the Mexican Chapter of the PPT, covering issues of political repression, will take place on August 28 and 29 in the state of Puebla. Spanish original
- Their interests are intertwined, conclude acting judges during pre-hearing
- Impunity has resulted not from inefficiency or lack of resources, but political decisions
The persistence of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions across different time periods and regions of the country can only be explained by a situation of complicity in which authorities and organized crime are part of a bloc with mutual interests, said the acting judges of the Mexican chapter of the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT), which yesterday concluded its pre-hearing to examine both crimes against humanity.
Pilar Calveiro, a professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, said that although there were some differences between the disappearances of previous decades and today, the phenomenon "continues with extraordinary tenacity due to collusion between the government as a whole, or some of its parts," and criminal groups.
"We have types of organized crime that link public to private and legal to illegal. There has been a penetration of the State by private criminal groups, and they have formed these networks of complicity there," said the survivor of the Argentinian dictatorship.José Rosario Marroquín, director of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Center for Human Rights, agreed that the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances is not a result of inefficiency or a lack of resources, but a series of political decisions that favor the recurrence of such criminal acts.
Although he cautioned against making generalizations, the activist said that
"in some areas of the country, military interventions practically constitute a use of terror by the state to suppress any form of protest."During the second day of the PPT pre-hearing, the judges addressed the cases of four Mexican students killed in the town of Sucumbíos, Ecuador, in a Colombian military bombing in March, 2008, and the attack on teacher and artist Juan Francisco Kuykendall on December 1, during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
They also explained how four young people from Veracruz were forcibly disappeared by the police of Juárez, Nuevo León, in collusion with members of the Los Zetas cartel.
Similarly, the Committee of Relatives and Friends of the Murdered, Disappeared and Kidnapped in Guerrero and the collective HIJOS México described several disappearances, committed both recently and in decades past, all with a lack of official investigation in common.
The next pre-hearing of the Mexican Chapter of the PPT, covering issues of political repression, will take place on August 28 and 29 in the state of Puebla. Spanish original