Disappearances in Mexico surge by 200% over 10 years (www.theguardian.com)
from Carawou@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 13:45
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someguy3@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 15:01 next collapse

Expanding their ranks often involves forced recruitment, while taking over new territory requires the “annihilation of rival groups”, said Vargas. But simply murdering other gang members is likely to catch the authorities’ attention: instead, cartels bury corpses in unmarked graves, burn them to ash or even dissolve them in vats of acid.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 16 Feb 15:13 next collapse

96% of crimes in Mexico go unsolved? Cartels are making hundreds of thousands of people go missing? These sound like numbers that Trump would pull out of his ass, how the actual fuck is the Mexican government this worthless?

Danitos@reddthat.com on 16 Feb 19:36 collapse

They have a huge corruption problem, and the cartels are very big, even having partial control over the goverment. This creates a situation in which few people in power are both willing and capable of doing something, as they are either bribed or murdered.

Ilixtze@lemmy.ml on 16 Feb 19:58 collapse

A lot of the states where violence is surging are controlled by the opposition right wing parties that have always had connections with the cartels. I live in a state where the government is run by right wing PAN; The party endorsed by Trump’s GOP and it is clear to everyone there is a lot of drug money flowing through government and industries.

And this propaganda is perfect to normalize American intervention to take down the rightfully elected social democrat party in power. Funny how that works.