And the Fourth Turning intensifies. Sound of silence from U.S. corporate media.
Furious students burn Mexican govt. building in protest over police corruption
Hundreds of residents in a southern-Mexican city smashed up the state capital building in a furious protest over the continued lack of information about 43 local college students, believed to have been abducted by corrupt police.
The local police are allegedly working with a powerful drug cartel and it’s feared that 10 newly discovered mass graves may contain the bodies of the students taken on September 26. “Up to 20” charred remains were discovered on Saturday.
As an investigation is underway, 26 police officers have so far been arrested, a number of which admitted to working with the Guerreros Unidos – an infamous drug cartel. Arrest warrants have also been issued for the mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Albarca, his wife and his security chief, but they have gone into hiding.
The building in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, was seen from a distance, engulfed in flames.
According to local authorities, the crowds included hundreds of students and teachers from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college, who blockaded the building and used sticks, rocks and Molotov cocktails to attack it.
They initially tried to get into the state congress, but police in riot gear repelled the crowd.
This comes more than two weeks after a serious incident in Iguala, also in Guerrero state, involving the shooting of six students by police during a rally in support of rural teachers’ rights. The law enforcers opened fire on a bus carrying protesters and arrested dozens of students, who have not been seen since.
The situation touches on a problem that’s been plaguing Mexico for a long time – police corruption and rampant organized crime by ruthless cartels.
Monday’s events come after a case of mistaken identity, during which the police shot and wounded German student Kim Fritz Keiser of the Monterey Institute of Technology, according to state authorities.
Keiser was travelling with her other foreign classmates in a van from Acapulco, which passes through Chilpancingo. At the time, the police were involved in another, unrelated confrontation with kidnappers, and erroneously assumed the people in the van had some sort of connection with the kidnapping. The state prosecutor’s office told AP that, as the officers tried to pull the van over, some crackling sound resembling a gunshot was heard from inside the vehicle. The police shot back, wounding the student.
Fearing that it was a case of armed men kidnapping students, the driver of the van refused to stop and drove away from the scene.
The officers involved in the incident have been detained and their weapons are being examined, authorities say.
Warnings have been issued by US authorities in the past to avoid the northwestern part of the state of Guerrero, because of frequent violence occurring in places like Iguala.
Mexico is a turd world country. I want the US to stop kissing their ass, and all their illiterate scum needs to go back where they came from.
Fuck a bunch of mexicano’s
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Mexico has been a failed state for a long time. What’s new?
Admin, would be interesting to see what you (or other regulars) can find about how many immigrants (illegal or not) are coming into our country from Mexico and other countries every month. I don’t trust the gov data and am not aware of any truly accurate source of info. Are you?
Would also be interesting to know who or what groups are blocking attempts to assign a travel ban on west African nations affected by Ebola. To willfully allow people who may be infected with Ebola to enter out country is no different than allowing Ebola to spread in our country. This endangers the health and safety of our ENTIRE COUNTRY. This goes far beyond just the head of the CDC – Frieden.
So let me get this straight – Mexican police are alleged to be hostile to ordinary citizens, sometimes serve criminal interests, shoot innocent people out of fear or mistaken identity, and when caught doing these things are subject to trivial, meaningless investigations that change nothing?
This is different from the US how?
Our drug laws are a worldwide, resounding, success!
All hail central control and even more centralized profits!
Mans inhumanity to man continues unabated.
It makes me hurt to the depths of my very soul.
Reforming our drug laws is undoubtedly a good idea, but don’t be under the illusion that murderour drug criminals will turn into law-abiding citizens, especially in a place like Mexico. There’s plenty of money to made in child prostitution, protection rackets, kidnapping, etc. It’s becoming more difficult for common criminals in the US to make a living because no one carries cash (muggings way down), cars with smart ignition systems (car theft way down), and criminals are easier to catch using cell phone tracking, ubiquitous remote cameras, cell phone cams and the fact that low-level criminals boast about their activities on social media. Mexico won’t expend that level of effort to thwart those kinds of crimes.
There is no excuse for not building a giant fence along the US-Mexico border. That’s why it probably won’t get done.
TE: I too feel your pain. The greed & stupidity are astounding!
That the local students are willing to take on the Mexican police for their complicity in the death of the 43 students is extremely encouraging. It means these students are truly willing to speak “truth to power” in a meaningful, concrete way rather than the #hashtag protests of the limp dick Occupy.
There is a vigilante group in southern Mexico that has also taken the fight to the cartels. Initially the local cops were against them but lately they have seemed to pair up.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mexicos-cartel-fighting-vigilantes-get-closer-texas-border-n151441
Did anybody notice the intro? “…Sound of silence from U.S. corporate media.”
Univision carried the story. Tune in, it has a CC3 feature. CNN ill still be covering EBOLA weeks from now when presumably we will be watching in the Emergency Room.
The topic is The Fourth Turning. We have a bunch of knee-jerk racists on this site, Billy at least is honest enough to admit it. Go, Billy! You just have to mention Mexico or any country beyond our borders and the hissing and spitting begins.
It sounds like the tough talking assholes that keep praying for the day TSHTF will actually be holding their skirts and clucking about lllegals, the Wall, Wall Street, ISIS…while boomers take care of business.
You are flapping your lips when you should be reading. Mexico is a kleptocracy, the proles have little to no power, power comes from the graft. You have to pay to play. Collective action is the best they can do to defend themselves, they probably read the Steinbeck link on TBP.
The biggest money maker per peso invested is narcotics. If you could picture our own ghettos filled with chronically unemployed youth whose best hope of survival is emigration or drug dealing, you’d have a picture of Mexico.
Here’s an idea, as long as Uncle Sam keeps giving away welfare money, drugs will keep flowing to the inner cities to grab that $$$. It is just so damn hard to point the finger the other way.