In case anyone thinks the situation in Mexico is improving

[Kiamichi]

President Enrique Pena-Nieto stated early on that he wanted to reduce news coverage of crime in Mexico but sometimes things can't be covered up. Such is the case in Iguala, Guerrero where police shot protesting students, killing six on the spot. 43 others were handed over by police to a cartel called Guerreros Unidos and weeks later they haven't been heard from despite intensive searches by federal forces and international publicity. Numerous mass graves have been discovered around Iguala during the search. The first five had 28 bodies and the DNA results have just got back that none of these are of the missing students. It is hard to keep track of how many mass graves have been found from news reports but the government announced finding four more today.

The other night the Univision correspondent Maria Antonieta Collins reported from the scene and said that she had inside information that there were bodies in three separate graves on the hillside behind her (police had cordoned off the scene). The first had two "bodies", presumably meaning not fully decomposed. The one to the rear had skeletal remains ("osamentas"), number not stated. She said the grave in the middle had "babies, about six months old", no further comment.

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Jesús Murillo Karam, the Federal Attorney General, announced that the 28 bodies found in five secret graves are not those of the teaching students from Ayotzinapa who have been missing since Sep. 26.

"I can tell you that the DNA from the very first graves that were found, the first of which we have any results, does not correspond to the DNA samples that were given by relatives of these young people", he said in a press conference.

He stated that in a few hours he would ask for an arrest warrant for the mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, who is on leave of absence, and for the local police chief because there is evidence linking them to the missing students and to the criminal group United Warriors.

He also reported that it has been established that the 43 missing school of education students were turned over to Cocula municipal police officers by Iguala municipal police. In turn, the Cocula officers delivered the students to United Warriors members at the border between the two municipalities.

Authorities developed intelligence that proved the participation by Cocula police officers and they confessed upon arrest. They are expected to be arraigned in a few hours.

Murillo Karam said that the police chief of Cocula gave a statement as part of the investigation but he is not under arrest as he was not involved in the acts.

[crocmommy]

Sounds like a powder keg. Do you think we might need to have our own troops there at some point to prevent a refugee situation?

[LibraryLady]

Sounds like a powder keg. Do you think we might need to have our own troops there at some point to prevent a refugee situation?

?????? How would that work? I can't imagine Mexico welcoming US troops inside its border.

[ann jusko]

I'm pretty sure she means on the border. I'd love to see many troops on our border with Mexico. IF we had enough troops, I'd like to see them on the Canadian border, too. We were in Vancouver, waiting in line outside the best Chinese restaurant. My girlfriend said "Did you see that?!!" I asked "See what?" At that very moment, the Mounties were bringing out another guy and pulled his shirt over his head. Some took him around the side of the building, and others opened two backpacks. They pulled out American passports, maybe 12 or 14 of them. No, they weren't their passports. Apparently, they'd been in the restaurant selling them. They were fake passports is what the paper reported the next day. Seeing that raid and the results shook me up a bit. This was just after 9-11. BUT that doesn't even compare with what is going on in Mexico.

[crocmommy]

If things get worse in Mexico, we may have more refugees fleeing to Mexico for asylum. We can't have that happening so we would need troops to keep the peace. The Mexican government would not like it but if it were to get so bad that citizens are fleeing here in fear of their lives, we may have to do something.

[ann jusko]

It's really sad. We enjoyed going to Mexico. The people were warm and friendly. anxious to help. But now, we won't go anywhere in Mexico. The cartels said they wouldn't go into the tourists spots, but they broke that promise in Cancun.