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‘The Authorities Have Done Absolutely Nothing’: Terrifying New List Details 20,000+ Missing in Mexico Since 2006

Dec. 22, 2012 4:30pm Erica Ritz

Civic Proposal List Details 20,000 Missing in Mexico Since 2006, Six Years

Members of a caravan of mothers who departed from Central America and currently are in Mexico looking for their missing sons, march in front of the Guadalupe Basilica, in Mexico City, on October 28, 2012 during a visit to the church. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

(TheBlaze/AP) — Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in 2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state of Michoacan to fight drug traffickers.

Since then, his mother, Araceli Rodriguez, has taken it into her own hands to investigate her son’s disappearance and has publicized the case inside and outside Mexico. She’s found some clues about what happened, but still doesn’t have any certainty about her son’s whereabouts.

As Mexican troops and police cracked down on drug cartels– who also battle among themselves– Leon was one of thousands of people who went missing amid a wave of violence that stunned the nation. A new report by a civic participation group, allegedly first compiled by the government, has put a number for the first time on the human toll: 20,851 people disappeared over the past six years. Not every case on the list has been proven related to the drug war, though.

But with at least another 70,000 deaths tied to drug violence, the numbers point to a brutal episode that ranks among Latin America’s deadliest. They are also sparking angry questions about why it doesn’t include all of the disappeared.

Members of a caravan of mothers who departed from Central America and currently are in Mexico looking for their missing sons, attend a mass in the Guadalupe Basilica, in Mexico City, on October 28, 2012. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Neither Rodriguez’s son nor his six colleagues who went missing on Nov. 16, 2009, are in the database, which was allegedly leaked by the Attorney General’s Office to a foreign journalist. The group Propuesta Civica, or Civic Proposal, released the data on Thursday.

Rodriguez’s mother said she’s been in touch with authorities investigating the case and has spoken about it in several public forums about the missing.

“I don’t think any government entity has a complete database,” Rodriguez said.

A spokesman for federal prosecutors, who would not allow his name to be used under the agency’s rules, said the Attorney General’s Office had no knowledge of the document.

As compiled by Civic Proposal, the report reveals the sheer scope of human loss, with the missing including police officers, bricklayers, housewives, lawyers, students, businessmen and more than 1,200 children under age 11. The disappeared are listed one by one with such details as name, age, gender and the date and place where they disappeared.

In this Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a soldier patrols near a temple allegedly built by the drug cartel “Caballeros Templarios,” or Knights Templar, that shows signs of vandalism allegedly left by the Zetas drug cartel near the town of Cueramato in Michoacan state, Mexico. (Photo: AP)

The Washington Post elaborates:

“His wife went to buy medicine and disappeared,” reads one typical entry.

“The son was addicted to drugs.”

“Her daughter was forced into a car.”

“The father was arrested by men wearing uniforms and never seen again.”

The documents were provided by government bureaucrats frustrated by what they describe as a lack of official transparency and the failure of government agencies to investigate the cases.

Some media in Mexico have reported that the number of missing could be even greater, at more than 25,000, with their estimates reportedly based on official reports, although media accounts didn’t make the reports public.

“We’re worried because several of the people gone missing in the state of Coahuila, and that we have reported to authorities, don’t appear on the database,” said Blanca Martinez of the Fray Juan de Larios human rights center in that northern border state. She’s also an adviser to the group Forces United for Our Disappeared in Coahuila, made up of relatives searching for loved ones.

Martinez said that between 2007 and 2012 the group registered 290 cases of missing people. The database released Thursday lists 272 cases in the state since 2006.

“We have no doubt that the authorities have done absolutely nothing” to solve them, she said.

Public attention to Mexico’s disappeared has grown especially since 2011 when former President Felipe Calderon publicly met with members of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a human rights group led by poet Javier Sicilia. His son was allegedly killed by drug traffickers that same year.

Salvador Alfonso Martinez, aka ‘Ardilla’, (C) alleged member of the Los Zetas Cartel and alleged mastermind of the San Fernando slaugther, is presented to the media at the General Attorney’s offices in Mexico City, on October 8, 2012. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Sicilia’s movement demanded that the thousands of killed and missing should be treated as victims of the drug war, even if they were criminal suspects. Calderon’s government responded that it would create a missing persons database, but authorities have not made it public so far. Calderon also ordered the creation of a special prosecutor in charge of assisting crime victims and supporting the search for the missing.

“There is nothing worse for me than having a missing relative. Not knowing where the person may be is very serious and so … in every case that comes to us, we try to find a solution, to find the person,” said Sara Herrerias, the head of Provictima, the office established by Calderon to help crime victims.

Herrerias, however, was cautious talking about the number of missing and said she could only discuss the cases that her office has dealt with.

In 14 months, she said, Provictima has handled the cases of 1,523 missing people, most of them allegedly taken by members of organized crime but with some cases also reportedly involving government authorities. Of the total number, 150 people have been located, 40 of them found dead.

Herrerias declined to talk about the possible magnitude of disappearances. “I don’t like to talk when I don’t have hard data,” she said.

Estimates of the missing vary. The National Human Rights Commission, which operates independently from the government, has said that some 24,000 people were reported missing between 2000 and mid-2012, in addition to some 16,000 bodies that have been found but remain unidentified.

Mexican Navy marines flank the alleged leader of the Gulf drug cartel, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, aka “El Coss,” second from right, is presented to the media along with other men dressed in military fatigues believed to be Costilla’s bodyguards, at the Mexican Navy’s Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City,Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. (Photo: AP)

Civic Proposal director Pilar Talavera said that although her group saw inconsistencies in the database, they decided to disclose it not only to help the public understand the scale of the violence, but also to pressure authorities to disclose official information on disappearances.

“This database is one of the few sources of information that civil society has had access to (and that can help) to start to comprehend the true magnitude of violence in Mexico in the last six years,” she explained.

But while the numbers help, what the relatives of the missing need most, of course, is to just learn what happened to their loved ones.

Since the disappearance of Rodriguez’s then-23-year-old son, a dozen alleged members of the La Familia drug cartel have been arrested as suspects in his case. Rodriguez said she has interviewed four of them, who have told her that her son and the other six officers were killed and their bodies “disintegrated.”

She said that so far no one has given her any clues about where her son’s remains are.

“If it’s true what the criminals say … even with that, my heart asks to find Luis Angel,” Rodriguez said. “For me Luis Angel is still missing.”

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:59pm
‘The Authorities Have Done Absolutely Nothing’: Terrifying Lists Detail THOUSANDS+ Americans Murdered, Raped, Child-Molested, Home-Invaded, Hit-N-Run Over by Illegal Aliens:

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp

http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/dave-gibson

…just a little taste (because it happens almost every day):
Dec 21st.
“Media blackout: [previously deported illegal alien] shooter kills family members, wounds baby and police officer”

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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:39pm
My condolences go out to the families of the missing/murdered. Those numbers are insanely huge.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:49pm
  i ay we do waht israel does………..300,000 illegals for 1 american………….
  
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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:36pm
Interesting that the drug cartel guys are wearing bullet proof vests. What is going on fully in Mexico? The .numbers of dead/missing are extraordinarily high. Civil war??? Obviously high gang/cartel violence but these numbers are extremely high.

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- ginger100
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:45am
  genocide, population control, smells like a communist take over. coming to your house
  
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jessieH
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:26pm
It’s really sad that they don’t have the right to keep & bear arms. 20 thousand people, if they were armed, could take out the drug cartels that our government is helping to fund with assaut rifles & automatic handguns.

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elderbat
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:11pm
more logo commentary from propuesta civica: a short run-through of some of the other logos on that website led me to:
international community foundation: staff advisor Lucia Frausto advocates sustainable cities program (agenda 21). this group also has ford foundation and planned parenthood listed. ford foundation of course is into social justice and sustainable development.
PNUD: a UN development program.
indesol: some sort of software engineering firm also connected to solar energy work. it has an odd setup in that it has no lists of members, just a generic “team” and asks visitor to log in. guess you have to do that in order to learn anything further about names etc. and I’m not that nerdy, I’m afraid…
these groups are a series of interconnected dots of leftist un agenda groups and, sadly, these mexican moms desperately trying to find out about their children are being used by the left, in the name of “justice”. these evil people will stop at nothing and use any situation to insinuate themselves and their agenda into a country. and they won’t let any crisis go to waste, now, will they? logos can reveal much.
in God I trust. all others pay cash.

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ireport uderide
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:44pm
My fellow Americans of Mexico. Many of your loved ones may have been killed by guns illegally smuggled into your country by way of a Sting operation called “Fast and Furious”.
You may want to ask your President about it, If he says he doesn’t know what you are talking about he’s most likely telling the truth, considering it was an illegal gun running operation overseen by our Justice Department.
Our Justice Department felt it wasn’t necessary to tell your officials about the operation to allow untraceable automatic weapons, (not the semi-auto weapons our insane people use) into your country to use as an excuse to hammer law abiding citizens in our country to give up their Second Amendment Rights.
Ask your President to call our President. because obviously your President doesn’t know anything about the illegal gun running operation because I’ve haven’t heard a peep out of him about it.

Oh, by the way, get a good lawyer, one of those Harvard chaps I’ve heard so much about. They really know how to sue the pants off of someone.

Hurry, were already bankrupt as a country in more ways than you know.
Adios and vayo con dios, Amegas and Amegos

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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:52pm
  Mexicans illegally living in America,
  
  Get out.
  
  And take your third-world violence with you.
  
  NOW!!!!!!!!!
  
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elderbat
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:17pm
go to propuesta civica webpage and note one of the logos: open society foundation. this is SOROS. not at all denying the tragic and sad truth that cartels have murdered thousands in that country (no doubt with fast/furious guns) but there is a soros foundation on that website and I suspect that his minions of useful idiots are promoting this tragedy for themselves, not for any answers for the families.

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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:00pm
  The truth is, and feel free to check this for yourself, George Soros is the de facto ruler of Mexico, just as he is in the US and most of Europe, with the possible exception of Germany. Hence, the drug cartels, who funnel a substantial fraction of their income to Soros. Soros has but one conspiratorial plan with the UN, which is to ******* the liberal ******* and put into measures which ******** *** **** agenda. While the Koch Brothers serve our God by promoting the common good, the good of all Americans, Soros serves the Devil. Whose side are you on???
  
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Bobolinsky
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:07pm
I just recently found this video of Milton Friedman talking about illegal immigration. The beginning of part 2 is what I found relevant.

part 1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE
part 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfU9Fqah-f4

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:31pm
Leftist democrat party = ethnocentric illegal alien criminal “outreach” = amnesty (Dream, Pathway, Perpetual, etc.)

Leftist republican party = ethnocentric illegal alien criminal “outreach” = amnesty (Dream, Pathway, Perpetual, etc.)

THOUSANDS of Americans dead, raped, child-molested, home-invaded, hit-n-run over.

Had enough?

Really?

The Constitution Party. NOW! HOY!!!!! AHORITA!!!!!!!!!!

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Dustoff
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:09pm
The picture could be better, but the guns I’m seeing, sure don’t look American made? So where did they get them?

South of they Border…. (-:

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trouthunter1
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:51pm
How can there be violence down Mexico way as they are not allowed to have guns? Don’t the cartels know it is illegal to have guns? My, these folks should obey the laws that were enacted for their own good and protection.

I just do not understand how they can get guns when they are illegal.

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SC 11 BRAVO
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:50pm
I found some of them!!! I mean A LOT of them, right here in South Carolina, Hanging around all the liquor stores,,,,,,

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Marsh626
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:42pm
Yet there’s widely popular bipartisan support to let these low-IQ savage mud people to mass immigrate here.

Keep telling yourselves that “hispanics” are “natural conservatives” who are on the cusp of voting Republican – if only we would just pander to them more and put forth more non-White candidates – you suicidally stupid, politically correct, morons.

These mongoloids are now estimated to become the new racial majority in America by 2050 thanks to you spineless idiots supporting mass legal immigration. Yet you faux-conservatives believe that they’ll not only somehow magically transform into loyal Republicans, but that they’ll also be a major asset to our country. Uh, no. There’s a reason Mexico is Mexico – it’s full of Mexicans.

As America becomes North Mexico this century and collapses, hopefully there will at least be a reawakening amongst White people to start looking out for their own interests again.
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:06pm
  What you said;)
  
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- matamoros
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:13pm
  @Marsh626
  —
  as a member of the low-IQ savage mongoloid mud people (ie. hispanic), I totally take issue with your assertion that I (we) strive to become a member(s) of the republican party!!! That’s just plain ridiculous and offensive!!!!
  
  I’m a true conservative! Less government – less regulations – less welfare – less taxes – and more freedom – defend the Constitution – and I believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
  
  Chill out with your hatred, and with your racism. That’s certainly not a conservative value. Maybe it’s you with the faux conservative values. Chill bro…
  
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- elderbat
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:56pm
  stop with the racism!!! I am white and I loathe it, regardless of who’s doing it. it is the HEART that counts, and your rant makes you no better than anyone of any color on the planet who resorts to such ugly rhetoric in the name of freedom. or are you KKK? may God forgive you.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:59pm
Fast & Furious!

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Walkabout
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:33pm
I would say legalize drugs but 2 things keep me from doing so.

1st the Chinese experience of the 19th century with opium. Opium was legal in China because the British Empire made it legal. china had 40 million addicts. Watch the “Mankind The Story of All of Us” on the History channel.

If we didn’t arrest people & throw them in jail, that would relieve prison overcrowding. It would take much f the profit out of the drug trade too. Which might be a good thing. But if legalize all drugs, I fear more incidents in the workplace & on the highways.

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reality based lifeform
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:21pm
All of the violence is funded by US illegal drug users . Good job you guys guess your bad habit DOES actually hurt other people besides yourself !

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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:49pm
  Not only drugs, the Cartels are heavily involved with Piracy
  Music & Movie DVDs is a big bootlegging business for them
  and accounts for $300 million to $600 million in lost revenue for the industry
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:47pm
  Polarized America
  
  That is news.
  
  Seeing how gung ho Sony, Apple, Hollywood is about digital rights management & copyright protection, I assume they are going get rid of the cartels. Finally America will have the stomach for it. Those damn cartels crossed 1 line too many. Overdoses are no big deal but copyright infringement Katy bar the doors.
  
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- commies.in.the.wire
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:02pm
  The Mexican people are truly at the mercy of these thugs and their government. Comrade Obama would love nothing more than this to be the norm here in the US.
  
  Time to draw the line and push back. They think they have this sewed up for the next 4 years, I beg to differ.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:19pm
‘THE AUTHORITIES HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING’

Uh, wanna bet? The Mexican authorities (in cahoots with obama since 2008) are partners with the drug cartels – THEY have done a lot – THEY are responsible for these “missing” (dead) people.

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TJexcite
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:09pm
There is nothing better the perp walks from Mexico. Show the criminal, the weapons, money and the drugs that where found with them and then they go away. But what is with the bullet proof vests that they have them wear. If someone was going to take them out when in police custody they would shot for the head.

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Chuck Stein
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:09pm
I went to Mexico for an extended family trip in 2008 — really uncomfortable decision, but I didn’t want to make waves in the family. Today, I would make waves. I will never go to Mexico until they restore SOME law and order there.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:31pm
  You don’t have to go to Mexico. Flobama is bringing them here and giving them a place to hide. He was right when he said he wanted to make the world all the same. Not one politician has tried to stop him. Pick your plantation early and avoid the rush.
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:31pm
  I always make waves, I don’t take any crap.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:41pm
  HATCHET:
  You can have Boehner’s job. He seems to be collecting crap. Stand up in Congress and call Flobama a liar. That should work.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:06pm
And so we see Mexico on the verge of becoming a failed nation; something Obama is desperate to turn us into as well.

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rangerrebew
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:55pm
How would Mejico know if anyone is missing? Do peope have to file a report saying they are going to dishonor American law and come here illegally? Does that rundown 3rd world government really have any idea how many people are there to begin with? Maybe these illiterate masses that are so welcomed here committed mass suicide because the world was to end yesterday. Maybe they were murdered by Mejican authorities trying to sneak back into the country from the U.S. and their bodies dumped at sea. They will have to wait until John (Lurch) Kerry is enshrined as secretary of state so the real answers can be found.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:38pm
  If Kerry goes to Mexico and gets a haircut, that would qualify him for the highest medal issued to millitary heroes. Never too late to start another collection.
  
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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:49pm
Why are you Mexicans surprised at this? Your government not only does NOT care about you…they’d RATHER you die, or run to America by the millions. Why do you think they have zero interest in stopping you from crossing the border into America like locusts…they WANT you gone.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:34pm
  You hit the nail on the head.
  
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- christhefanatic
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:07pm
  Mexico has a government???
  
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The-Monk
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:47pm
And US citizens voluntarily go to Mexico for fun and merriment on vacations?

May I suggest Costa Rica instead?

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BlackCrow
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:43pm
Stay the _______ out of Mexico.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:36pm
  I’ll have to erase that off my bucket list.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 4:41pm
Come on Communist obama – we know you will make nice with these thugs just like you do with the American Union thugs !

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