Mexico on the Brink: Revolution 2015?

[Roadrunner]

They need their version of an Arab Spring.
I don't think the population has the balls though.

Ah, a Mexican ISIS is what they need?

 

[georgephillip]

Operation Gunrunner:
"In Mexico, Manuel J. Jauregui of the Reforma newspaper wrote, 'In sum, the gringo(American) government has been sending weapons to Mexico in a premeditated and systematic manner, knowing that their destinations were Mexican criminal organizations.'[74]

"Like many politicians, Mexican pundits across the political spectrum expressed anger at news of the operations.

"La Jornada, a left-leaning newspaper, asked 'US: ally or enemy?'[75]

"The paper also argued that the Mérida Initiative should be immediately suspended.

"A right-leaning paper accused the US of violating Mexicansovereignty.[74]"
M rida Initiative - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[waltky]

And how much longer will that take??...

Mexico agrees to relaunch investigation of missing students
Oct 20,`15 -- Mexico agreed on Tuesday to relaunch its investigation of last year's disappearance of 43 teachers' college students, a probe that has been roundly criticized by relatives of the missing and independent investigators.

The country is accepting recommendations by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, but will not allow a group of independent experts to directly question military troops about the case. Eber Betanzos, deputy prosecutor for human rights at Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office, said his entity "completely" accepts a report by the five experts. One of those experts, Angela Buitrago, a Colombian, said the relaunched search will be carried out "with a strategy based on lines laid out by the group, including the use of technology, mapping of clandestine graves and other locations and establishing a path of action agreed upon by the families." The students disappeared in September 2014 after being detained by police in the city of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero, an incident that has generated large protests in the months since.

A man holds a banner that reads in Spanish "Justice," as he pays his respects at a newly erected momument at the place where Julio Cesar Mondragon's body was found, during a march by parents and relatives of 43 missing students and 3 who were killed, in Iguala, Guerrero State, Mexico. The United States has withheld $5 million in anti-drug aid to Mexico over concerns on human rights in the country, the State Department said Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Mexico has been criticized for human rights concerns such as the 2014 disappearance of the 43 teachers' college students, who were detained by police in the southern state of Guerrero and have not been heard from since.​

Prosecutors say the students were handed over to a drug gang, killed and incinerated at a trash dump, though the victims' relatives and independent observers have cast doubt on the official version and criticized what they call missteps and holes in the investigation. They have called for members of the army, which was in the area when the disappearances took place, to be made available for interrogation, but Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos has declined to make troops available to anyone other than government prosecutors. Roberto Campa Cifrian, deputy secretary for human rights at Mexico's Interior Department, said at a hearing in Washington that the experts can get such information through the government but will not be able to confront possible military witnesses. Buitrago said after the hearing that her group still hopes to question troops because they consider it a crucial piece of the investigation. "It's not the same to have a third party asking questions," Buitrago said. "Something is going to be missing, or doubt will remain about why something else was not asked."

The experts designated by the commission have rejected a number of the investigation's findings. For example, they say it was not possible for the bodies to have been burned at the dump as prosecutors claim. They have recommended replacing the team of investigators and exploring other lines of investigation, such as the hypothesis that the students disappeared because they unwittingly hijacked a bus carrying heroin or drug money. Students at the teachers' college regularly commandeer buses for transport to protests. The agreement with the government stipulates that Betanzos' office will take over the investigation exclusively, replacing a Prosecutor's Office entity specializing in organized crime, and coordinate with the experts to conduct a new study on the fire at the dump.

News from The Associated Press

 

[waltky]

Mexican prosecutors stickin' their heads in the ground...

Mexico rights group blasts prosecutors over missing students
Nov 8,`15 -- Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is criticizing the Attorney General's Office for failing to address all the recommendations it made in July about the investigation into the fate of 43 missing college students.

In a document released Sunday, the commission said the office's response to its report has been "insufficient and imprecise" and prosecutors have failed to provide documentation to supports some of their positions. The human rights commission issued a list of 32 omissions in and recommendations for the investigation of the disappearance of the teachers' college students, a case that has sparked large protests and outrage around the world.

The students from the southern state of Guerrero disappeared in the city of Iguala while commandeering transit buses to take them to a protest. The Attorney General's Office says the students were detained by local police on Sept. 26, 2014, and handed over to a drug cartel, which killed and incinerated them at a dump. Their remains were allegedly put in garbage bags and dumped in a nearby river.

Relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa teachers' college students lead a march marking the one-year anniversary of the students' disappearances in Chilpancingo, Mexico. In a document released Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is criticizing the Attorney General's Office for failing to address all the recommendations it made in July about the investigation into the fate of 43 missing college students.​

But the commission's July report said the federal investigation had not developed profiles of each of the missing students that would include basic details such as blood type, fingerprints and distinguishing characteristics such as scars or tattoo. Many of the report's observations concerned the collection and analysis of evidence from the garbage dump in Cocula and the San Juan river where allegedly bags of their remains were dumped. Later, an independent panel formed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights also dismantled the government's official version of events.

The Mexican human rights commission said that of the 26 observations it made in its July report that related to the federal Attorney General's Office - there were also recommendations for state and local authorities - two were "partially attended to; one was partially addressed with a minimal advance; three are the process of being attended to and 20 weren't addressed" at all. Late Sunday, the Attorney General's Office released a statement saying it was ready to fulfill "each and every observation" made by the commission and said it would send it new documentation next week.

News from The Associated Press

 

[longknife]

The general threads I find in my scanning of Mexican news is the growing increase in local vigilantes taking the law into their own hands. They replace local police and judges, even ousting mayors who bought their jobs.

The federales simply are unable to be everywhere all the time and the people are stepping up.

One other point. Drug cartels usually maintain a degree of order in their areas and provide services to the people that no government agencies do.

 

[waltky]

Grisly scene as charred remains of 3 detectives found in Guerrero...

3 detectives killed, burned in southern Mexico
Dec 9,`16 -- The charred remains of three federal detectives have been found in the bed of a burning pickup truck in the southern Mexico resort of Zihuatanejo.

A fourth person's remains were found nearby Friday along with a hand-lettered sign containing an apparent reference to a drug gang. The security spokesman for the southern state of Guerrero said the detectives' bodies had been covered with logs and set afire. Their weapons were also burned.

Their vehicle was found on the outskirts of Zihuatanejo in an area not frequented by tourists. Spokesman Roberto Alvarez said the agents were reported missing on Thursday.

The area has been the scene of increasing violence in recent months. Guerrero state has seen an uptick in killings, with gangs often sending messages to rivals by dumping bodies.

News from The Associated Press

 

[esthermoon]

Two apparently unrelated issues, an escalating political crisis involving the disappearance of 43 students and growing fury over a palace built for the presidential family, have brought Mexico to a revolutionary moment unseen in a century.
"Protests calling for Mexico’s president to resign and drawing attention to the country’s ongoing problems with crime and impunity have become almost daily news since the disappearance of a group of 43 student teachers in late September.

"The protests, which have gathered support from a broad swath of Mexico City’s population were pushed into action by a militant group of teachers-in-training from the state of Guerrero who have tirelessly worked to draw attention to their missing colleagues and their state’s broader problems.

"As I explained in a recent article for Foreign Affairs, 'When it comes to investment, security, and economic development, the state simply hasn’t been a priority for Mexico’s federal government. Its education system is massively underfunded, leaving residents woefully unprepared to succeed in Mexico’s increasingly globalized economy. And soaring crime rates have made improving public schools more difficult.'”
What Are The Root Causes Of Mexico s Protests - Forbes

Unfortunately for Mexicans no revolution happened in 2015...