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Although there has been a small decline in murder figures, little has changed in areas affected by violence, and kidnappings are on the rise. According to Mexico’s national statistics institute (INEGI), there were 105,682 kidnappings last year but only 1,317 were reported to police.
The missing students were returning home from Iguala city last month when their bus was attacked by police, resulting in six deaths.
Meanwhile Mexico’s attorney general confirmed last week that on June 30th last year army troops shot dead 15 civilians in cold blood before tampering with the crime scene to make it look like the victims died in crossfire.
The twin massacres cap a decade of infamy in which children have perished inside creches, journalists have been decapitated and migrants forced to dig their own graves. An estimated 100,000 people have died, while 25,000 remain unaccounted for as the level of collusion between police, army, politicians and drug traffickers has reached epidemic proportions.
The Salinas era saw the unprecedented expansion of the drug trade in parallel with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, cementing drugs and business as Mexico’s chief power blocs.
The trail of destruction wrought by drug violence is intimately connected to a political system which worships finance and turns a blind eye to corruption and money-laundering.