Mexico dig fails to find 1970s victims

[AlphaCentauri]

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Prosecutors say excavations at a former military base in southern Mexico have concluded without finding any trace of leftist activists who disappeared in the 1970s.

The Attorney General's Office says investigators dug at 44 sites on the former base in the town of Atoyac de Alvarez in Guerrero state. The digs from July 7 to 28 yielded no sign of human remains.

Relatives of the missing activists believed they might have been buried there.

The office said in a statement Monday that investigations would continue into the fate of people who disappeared during counterinsurgency efforts against rebel groups in the 1970s. Estimates of the number of disappeared range from 275 to more than 1,200.

Atoyac de Alvarez is the birthplace of the Party of the Poor rebel group.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEXICO_PAST_CRIMES?SITE=ALOPE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Judi Lynn]

1. Well, we know they're SOMEWHERE, since they never went home again!

This last search started in February. I hope the relatives will compel them to keep going. Here's the story:

Mexican police search for 'dirty war' dead at former military base

The Associated Press
Sunday, February 3, 2008
ATOYAC DE ALVAREZ, Mexico: Federal investigators began searching over the weekend for remains of victims of Mexico's "dirty war," which led to the disappearance of hundreds of dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s.

About 15 police and investigators from the federal attorney general's office used scanning equipment to search for bodies at a former military base in the southern town of Atoyac de Alvarez, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the resort city Acapulco, said Julio Mata, who represents an association of victims' relatives.

Family members of at least five missing victims looked on, Mata told The Associated Press. The attorney general's office declined Sunday to provide information on the search.

Atoyac de Alvarez, a center of guerrilla activity in the 1960s, is the birthplace of one of the era's main rebel groups, the Party of the Poor, which was led by former school teacher Lucio Cabanas. Cabanas was killed during a gunbattle with authorities in 1974.

Several rebel groups carried out kidnappings and bank robberies in the 1960s and 1970s, prompting police and military crackdowns that led to the disappearance and deaths of an estimated 275 to 1,300 people.

"Some were taken by plane and thrown into the ocean," Jose Luis Arroyo, who has been searching for his nephew since 1972, said Saturday outside the former base. "Many never came back."

More:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/03/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Dirty-War.php

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Throwing people out of airplanes was really big, wasn't it? Didn't know they did it in Mexico, too.

Did you ever hear that it was done in Viet Nam by U.S. forces, and helicopters? I read it was bragged about by some of the Cuban "exiles" like terrorist, and founder of "Hermanos al Rescate," Jose ,who went to Viet Nam, also. Back after the revolution in Cuba, he was happy to help the "exile" terrorists by flying over Cuba and bombing passenger trains, factories, etc., then, in the 1990's, you'll recall he invaded Cuban airspace and got some of his men killed.

These same terrorists HAVE bragged about throwing people out of helicopters.

You wonder where it started first: in Argentina? Brazil? It occured in Chile, also, of course. Brazil and Argentina were hard at work torturing, killing leftists, throwing them out of planes simultaneously with the Viet Nam war. Looks as if the Mexico leftist torture/murder victims slide right in there in the very same time frame.

Wingers who don't think the Western Hemisphere has been hungering for a Tidal Wave of Change in vast proportions are as stupid as they are full of hatred.