ECATEPEC, MEXICO — The first time, after the men with police badges had lashed Adriana Carrillo’s wrists and ankles with tape, and she had spent 37 hours in the back of a Nissan, her father tossed the $12,000 ransom in a black satchel over a graffiti-strewn brick wall and brought her nightmare to its conclusion. She took three days off and then went back to work.
“I don’t want to live as a victim,” she said.
Carrillo returned to the cash register of the family store, where she had worked since she was 8 with her parents and six sisters, amid the floor-to-ceiling jumble of marshmallows and mixed nuts and pinwheel pasta and Styrofoam cups. Their business — cash-based, working-class, on the outskirts of Mexico City — happened to put them squarely into the demographic most vulnerable to Mexico’s kidnapping epidemic. And on May 28, 2013, less than two years later, a white sedan pulled up alongside Carrillo’s car as she drove home late from the market. When she saw the guns, she covered her face with her hands.
“No, not again, no,” she remembered saying. “No. No. No. No.”
In Mexico, with its history of drug-war violence and corrupt police, kidnapping is an old story. In the past, the crime tended to target the rich. Now it has become more egalitarian. Victims these days are often shopkeepers, taxi drivers, service employees, parking attendants and taco vendors who often work in cash or in Mexico’s “informal” economy. Targets also tend to be young — students, with parents willing to pay ransoms, are commonly targeted.
This seems like a problem for California, yet no help, no suggestions from Jerry Brown or the California legislature. If Jerry wants to be the politician who unites Mexico and California then he might get off his butt and find some way to help out. That governor, fakes his way through the election, using Mexico to get votes, he then abandons the place.
El gobernador de California debería tener un fuerte interés en detener el terror de las bandas criminales en México. México es nuestro nuevo socio, que fue el tema de su elección, ahora no escuchamos la palabra de ayudar a México a resolver este problema. Jerry Brown, cobarde.
Cada vez más jóvenes se dedican al secuestro
México encabeza la lista de los países con mayores índices de secuestro registrados en 2013, incluso por encima de naciones como India y Nigeria, según un estudio publicado por el Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano (ONC).
“Tamaulipas, Morelos, Michoacán, Tabasco y Guerrero son los cinco estados más golpeados”
Criminal gangs in the heart of Mexico causing grief for our fellow citizens. California stands by doing nothing. Shame on the California politicians.
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