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- Three Youths Found Executed in Chihuahua
- IFAI Requests the PGR Clarify the Death of "El Macho Prieto"
- University Experts: Normalistas Were Not Burned In Cocula Landfill
| Three Youths Found Executed in Chihuahua Posted: 12 Dec 2014 07:44 PM PST  Three youths were found dead in Chihuahua, which caused great social indignation when it was found out that one of the victims was a student. The youths were kidnapped last Saturday by an armed group according to reports by authorities of the state. They were found Thursday morning wrapped up in blankets and with a coup de grâce. Élmer García was executed along with his brother Edgar Iván García Archuleta and his cousin Gabriel Gándara Archuleta. The three were from Valle de Juárez. Élmer García was a student studying psychology at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, and was just days from graduating. He was greatly recognized by his peers for his leadership by having participated in the Network of Youth Groups, participating as an activist and speaker at various forums addressing insecurity issues. The death of these young people had a great impact on the university community. Gabriel Gándara was the brother of Érica Gándara, a police officer who was abducted in 2010 and later murdered, being the only woman in the corporation after 24 police officers were killed during 2008-2010. Source:El Sol De Nayarit | ||||
| IFAI Requests the PGR Clarify the Death of "El Macho Prieto" Posted: 12 Dec 2014 03:14 PM PST  The Federal Institute of Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI in its Spanish initials) instructed the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) to clarify the expert evidence about the death of Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, "El Macho Prieto", alleged operational leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Upon responding to a request for information, commissioner Joel Salas explained, the PGR contradicted itself, because they first refused to deliver information, arguing that it was reserved, and later changed their answer, saying that they did not have any expert opinion on the matter. "Based on the analysis of this paper, this implies or infers or means that the PGR, on the one hand, with respect to the classification, breached articles 43 and 46 of the Federal Transparency Law, as it classified information that was not made in their archives. And, in relation to the non-existence of said information, there is no evidence that the Committee on Information has issued a founded and motivated resolution", he indicated in the public meeting of the Pleno. Salas recalled that on December 19, 2013, the National Security Commission reported that the Federal Police carried out an operation to capture "El Macho Prieto" and that he may have died, given the results of genetic tests, made from the blood spilled in the place, as his body was not located. "It is striking the lack of congruence between public communications issued by the National Security Commission with regards to the death of one of the most wanted suspects in the country, and the lack of availability of evidence in the PGR to confirm it", Salas highlighted. In addition, the commissioner indicated, there exists the documented case by Amnesty International of Adrián Vázquez Lagunas, who on September 26, 2012 was identified as "El Macho Prieto" and detained by the Security of Public Security of Baja California in Tijuana. "The report indicates that after two years, Adrián Vázquez remains in prison and his case has not been resolved, despite the fact that the federal government already reported the alleged death of "El Macho Prieto". This case highlights or (at least) allows us to ask another question: why have they not clarified which of the Macho Prietos" to which I have referred is the true criminal?", Salas asked. | ||||
| University Experts: Normalistas Were Not Burned In Cocula Landfill Posted: 12 Dec 2014 05:40 AM PST Borderland Beat posted and Translated by Pepe Republished from Proceso MEXICO, DF (appro). Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and University Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) today put into question the version of the Attorney General's Office on the fate of missing Ayotzinapa normalistas.
Jorge Antonio Montemayor Aldrete, from the Institute of Physics at UNAM, and Pablo Ugalde Vélez, a researcher at UAM Azcapotzalco, declared it "impossible" the hypothesis presented by the Attorney General of the Republic, Jesús Murillo Karam, based on scientific expertise and the review of public statements and photographs of Cocula dump. The reasonings of scientists are compatible with considerations of fire and explosives expert, Alfonso Palacios Blanco, and forensic anthropologist at the UNAM, Lorena Valencia Caballero, interviewed by reporter Patricia Dávila and whose statements were published in Proceso on the 16th of November. To Montemayor Aldrete "the official version is not supported by facts, but rather is a fantasy" created by Murillo Karam. The act of destroying the bodies as described by the prosecutor needed, he said, the participation of "many more than three to 15 people" as the investigation says, and there only three detainees that allegedly took part in the destruction of the bodies. The researcher at the Institute of Physics said that the remains of Alexander Mora were not burned at the dump because the circumstances in which the remains were found are more compatible with "acts and/or phenomena physical or from natural chemicals." According to investigators, the first element that makes unlikely the official version is that the 43 bodies, "which are not balls or cylinders," supposedly reached the bottom of the dump as the accused describe, because the landfill "is not a slide and there's no report of them enclosing the bodies somehow to get them to roll to the bottom of the landfill," Montemayor said.  The document signed by Montemayor and Ugalde indicates that "in places of the greatest free fall, the bodies should have left traces of skin, blood and bones or pieces of clothing should have attached to articles in the landfill, which would serve as sources of genetic material for identification." About the source of the fire, their report finds that, to cremate 43 bodies, "33 tons of tree trunks, four inches in diameter," would be needed. And this fire would have left residues "of bones and ashes of wood that would weigh about 700 pounds, of which about 250 pounds would correspond to human remains," which would "pack 12 bags with about 60 pounds each of waste combustion and mixed human remains."
Montemayor said a human pyre the size that PGR said occurred, "would have been seen 5 or 6 miles away" and would have left the fire area with "blackened stones, broken by heat, and puddles of grease," of which, up to now he stressed, no evidence exists. UAM researcher Pablo Ugalde, insisted that, based on the scientific evidence and understanding, "we can say that the hypothesis of the PGR is impossible, and it does not require a visit to the scene, only mathematical calculations based on the slope of the landfill to conclude it was not possible that the bodies would roll to the bottom of the dump." He noted that the statements of Murillo Karam that the flames reached a temperature of 1,600 degrees Celsius "is disproved when you see pictures where remains of wires are seen, as steel melts at 1,600 degrees and if there were wires, that means the temperature did not reach that high." The experts reported that the study will be sent to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and the UN. The question of where the bone remains of Alexander were found was initiated by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). In a statement released four days ago, they clarified that none of its members "witnessed the discovery of the fragment which culminated in the identification." |
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