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Mothers of the Disappeared in Sinaloa
The Other Campaign Meets with Relatives of Victims from Mexico’s “Dirty War”
By Simon Fitzgerald
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Sinaloa
October 15, 2006
In the most powerful event of the The Other Campaign’s stay at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in the city of Culiacán, Delgate Zero, in the presence of the independent media and other members of the tour’s caravan, met with the surviving members of the Union of Mothers with Disappeared Children of Sinaloa to unite with their cause and commemorate the lives of the disappeared.
The “disappeared” are most often associated with the military dictatorships of Argentina and Chile. The Mexican governments of the sixties and seventies accepted exiles fleeing the murderous political repression in South America of that time, and otherwise made a great effort to appear internationally to be a tolerant regime. Within Mexico, however, the police and military were also kidnapping, torturing, and killing leftist dissidents in what came to be known as the “dirty war.”
As the “revolutionary” or even progressive credentials of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in its Spanish initials) became more and more discredited, leftwing resistance movements flourished across Mexico in the late 60s and 70s, from widespread peaceful student activism to smaller armed insurrections. In 2001, Mexico’s Human Rights Commission recognized 532 disappearances of civilians in Mexico during the “dirty war” period (many believe the true number to be much higher). Thousands more were tortured. While the highest number of disappearances occurred in Guerrero (where the uprising of schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas’ Party of the Poor was answered by a militarization of the state that continues to this day), Sinaloa was state number three on the list.
As Martha Alicia Camacho, who was kidnapped while pregnant along with her now murdered husband points out, “dirty war” is in many ways a misnomer. “This wasn’t a war, because we weren’t an army. The government came and took 16 or 17-year-old children, young high school-age children,” and tortured and killed them. “This wasn’t a dirty war, these were crimes of the state.”
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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2173.html
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Sinaloa
October 15, 2006
In the most powerful event of the The Other Campaign’s stay at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa in the city of Culiacán, Delgate Zero, in the presence of the independent media and other members of the tour’s caravan, met with the surviving members of the Union of Mothers with Disappeared Children of Sinaloa to unite with their cause and commemorate the lives of the disappeared.
The “disappeared” are most often associated with the military dictatorships of Argentina and Chile. The Mexican governments of the sixties and seventies accepted exiles fleeing the murderous political repression in South America of that time, and otherwise made a great effort to appear internationally to be a tolerant regime. Within Mexico, however, the police and military were also kidnapping, torturing, and killing leftist dissidents in what came to be known as the “dirty war.”
As the “revolutionary” or even progressive credentials of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in its Spanish initials) became more and more discredited, leftwing resistance movements flourished across Mexico in the late 60s and 70s, from widespread peaceful student activism to smaller armed insurrections. In 2001, Mexico’s Human Rights Commission recognized 532 disappearances of civilians in Mexico during the “dirty war” period (many believe the true number to be much higher). Thousands more were tortured. While the highest number of disappearances occurred in Guerrero (where the uprising of schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas’ Party of the Poor was answered by a militarization of the state that continues to this day), Sinaloa was state number three on the list.
As Martha Alicia Camacho, who was kidnapped while pregnant along with her now murdered husband points out, “dirty war” is in many ways a misnomer. “This wasn’t a war, because we weren’t an army. The government came and took 16 or 17-year-old children, young high school-age children,” and tortured and killed them. “This wasn’t a dirty war, these were crimes of the state.”
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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2173.html
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