Soldiers took them in the night. Now Mexico's drug war strategy is on trial.
By KATE LINTHICUM
APR 25, 2018 | 1:25 PM
| MEXICO CITY
Mexican soldiers in 2009 in the border state of Chihuahua, where they were sent to battle organized criminal gangs. (Associated Press)
The soldiers took them in the night.
First they came for Nitza Alvarado Espinoza and Jose Alvarado Herrera. The 31-year-old cousins were sitting in a van outside a family member's house when troops forced them into a military truck.
Minutes later, soldiers arrived at the house of another Alvarado cousin, 18-year-old Rocio Alvarado Reyes. She was carried away screaming at gunpoint in front of her young brothers and baby daughter.
It was Dec. 29, 2009 — the last time the cousins were seen alive.
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http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-disappeared-20180425-story.html