{"id":13237,"date":"2012-10-16T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13237"},"modified":"2012-10-16T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:39:43","slug":"mexico-bloody-shame-and-another-us-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13237","title":{"rendered":"Mexico bloody shame and another US Proxy War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open letter to president-elect of a country with 100 dead or missing journalists<\/strong>
\n16 October, 2012 – Reporters without Borders<\/p>\n

Dear President-Elect Pe\u00f1a Nieto,<\/p>\n

You are ending a European tour with a visit to Paris before being sworn in as your country\u2019s next president on 1 December. Tomorrow you will meet with French President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and the next day you will address the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on “Changes in Mexico and their role in the panorama of global change.”<\/p>\n

Will the changes your refer to include the tragic toll of a decade of extreme violence in your country? Are they the proposals you plan to submit to you embattled country during your six years in office”<\/p>\n

Culminating with outgoing President Felipe Calder\u00f3n\u2019s federal offensive, the Mexican tragedy has had a toll of more than 60,000 of your fellow citizens killed in the cross-fire between the drug cartels and security forces that are often infiltrated by organized crime.<\/p>\n

The victims include more than 100 journalists killed or missing in the past decade. The latest are Ram\u00f3n Abel L\u00f3pez Aguilar, 53, photographer and editor of the Tijuana Informativo website, murdered yesterday in Tijuana, and \u201cRuy Salgado\u201d also know as \u201cEl 5anto,\u201d a Mexico City-based blogger who disappeared mysteriously on 8 September amid a controversy about last July\u2019s federal elections.<\/p>\n

The country you will lead from 1 December onwards is also scarred by the terrible repression in San Salvador Atenco in May 2006, when you were Mexico state\u2019s governor. What justice will be rendered? What sustainable judicial system will allow the rule of law to be restored?<\/p>\n

And which constitutional guarantees will at last be applied so that journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders, civil society representatives and now also electoral transparency activists are able to exercise their freedom to obtain and impart information and question the authorities without fear of being harassed or killed?<\/p>\n

The way the investigation into L\u00f3pez Aguilar\u2019s murder in Tijuana is already developing reminds us of all the other police and judicial investigations that were either rushed or became bogged down in endless bureaucracy and just sustained the prevailing impunity. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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