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Related: About this forumFresnillo, Zacatecas: 'We're Living in Hell': Inside Mexico's Most Terrified City
By Sol Prendido 8/03/2021 09:25:00 PM
"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
Fresnillo feels to residents overrun by violence and paralyzed by fear, a testament to the failure of Mexicos government to tackle organized crime.
In Fresnillo, 96 percent of residents say they feel unsafe the highest percentage of any city in Mexico.
The violence was already terrifying, she said, when grenades exploded outside her church in broad daylight some five years ago. Then children in town were kidnapped, disappearing without a trace. Then the bodies of the executed were dumped in city streets.
And then came the day last month when armed men burst into her home, dragged her 15-year-old son and two of his friends outside and shot them to death, leaving Guadalupe who didnt want her full name published out of fear of the men too terrified to leave the house.
I do not want the night to come, she said, through tears. Living with fear is no life at all.
For most of the population of Fresnillo, a mining city in central Mexico, a fearful existence is the only one they know; 96 percent of residents say they feel unsafe, the highest percentage of any city in Mexico, according to a recent survey from Mexicos national statistics agency.
The economy can boom and bust, presidents and parties and their promises can come and go, but for the citys 140,000 people, as for many in Mexico, there is a growing sense that no matter what changes, the violence endures.
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(New York Times)
Much more:
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/08/fresnillo-zacatecas-were-living-in-hell.html
Judi Lynn
(160,449 posts)By Sol Prendido 7/29/2021 08:57:00 PM 233 comments
"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
A new video from the Mexican underworld has just surfaced online. For this broadcast hitmen from the Grupo Flechas burn a captured Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) operative alive.
Grupo Flechas are an anonymous army of enforcers in charge of the security of the drug kingpin and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael El Mayo Zambada.
This armed criminal cell has been tasked with clearing the way for whichever drug corridor theyre dispatched to. Currently theyre in the state of Zacatecas fighting their war of attrition against El Menchos henchmen.
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EYESORE 9001
(25,908 posts)I did work for a company that had just moved operations to Fresnillo. They insisted that I go there or a couple of months to assist in scaling up production. I had no interest in putting a target on my back - especially since the company had a policy of not paying ransom if their workers were kidnapped. They considered the bribe money that made its way to the dominant cartel payment enough. I told them to pack it in their poop chute and left the company that day.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Let them get their fix with clean needles, with a little counseling on the side, etc.
This is the only way to destroy the cartels.