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T. WILKINSON
They are known as the "desapericidos"/ the disappeared.
And there are more and more reported in Mexico everyday.
LATIMES: "In a chilling byproduct of the drug war raging in Mexico, thousands of people have disappeared. Not killed, as far as is known; not taken for ransom. Simply vanished, leaving families desperate and broken, and a society confused and frightened.
Some are low-level drug gangsters "lifted," to use the local vernacular, by rivals, then killed and dumped in secret mass graves. Some are last seen in the hands of the military or police, picked up for questioning, fates unknown. Thousands of others are immigrants who can't pay their smugglers.
And some, in the most unsettling instances, disappear for reasons no one can fathom."
AND: by D. CAVE: 2 Screen Read:
The Roman Catholic Church is re-examining its historic dependence on narco's for money as tens of thousands die from battles between often generous criminals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/americas/07church.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
