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Post by Virgil Showlion on Oct 31, 2014 15:36:11 GMT -5
I just happened across this while browsing another article: A Mexican massacre and the Queen of Iguala: She prefers sleeveless dresses, adorns her glamorous frame with plenty of bejeweled accessories, and is not oblivious to the benefits of Botox.
In Mexico, they know her as the Queen of Iguala — after the town where she used to live — but she would much rather be celebrated as a doer of good.
Now, it turns out, she might better be described as a mass murderer, implicated in narcotics, extortion and corruption, as well as being a fugitive from Mexican justice.
Meet Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, first lady of the southern Mexican town of Iguala and the reputed mastermind of a searing atrocity that resulted in the disappearance last month of 43 young men, all now presumed dead.
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Haunted by murderous drug cartels, plagued by a deeply entrenched culture of criminal impunity, and infected by what Hannah Arendt long ago described as the banality of evil, Mexico today is a country where you don’t have to hate someone in order to kill them.
A whiff of annoyance will do.
That, it now seems, was all it took for Pineda Villa to order the execution of 43 men.
Wife of the local mayor and head of a municipal family welfare organization, Pineda Villa was evidently concerned that a group of students from a neighbouring teachers’ college might disrupt a celebration she had organized for the evening of Sept. 26 — the occasion of her second annual address concerning her charitable accomplishments.
She had been interrupted by a similar ruckus at a public event in June 2013, and so she reportedly decided to take pre-emptive action this time.
“Teach them a lesson,” she ordered, according to one account.
Her underlings complied. Had anyone else heard of this? It's like something out of bad Hollywood fiction.  |
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Post by Jaguar on Oct 31, 2014 15:47:32 GMT -5
Geez I hadn't read that or heard about it before.
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Post by sesfw on Oct 31, 2014 18:23:15 GMT -5
This is the first I've heard about it. ........ Horrible if true.
I've also heard about ISIS be-heading Christian children and making the parents watch in the villages they are overtaking. Another thing I haven't been able to verify.
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Post by Jaguar on Oct 31, 2014 18:39:11 GMT -5
I went looking for that [what sesfw posted about ISIS] and couldn't find anything on any main news site, that's not to say it ain't happening though.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Nov 3, 2014 17:51:13 GMT -5
I'm sure you will find the answer, Virgil. Put it on snopes to see if they will research it out.
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Post by Angel! on Nov 3, 2014 18:07:02 GMT -5
I have been hearing about the missing people for a while. Crazy that someone would have 43 executed. I thought they had found where they had been buried, but I guess not.
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Post by Angel! on Nov 3, 2014 18:14:29 GMT -5
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article3499703.html
11 mass graves have been found so far in the search for the missing & they still haven't found the 43 kids. It is crazy the amount of violence that has gone on unnoticed in this area for the last decade. Hopefully it will finally now come to a halt as the world is watching. |
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Nov 3, 2014 18:47:34 GMT -5
www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article3499703.html
11 mass graves have been found so far in the search for the missing & they still haven't found the 43 kids. It is crazy the amount of violence that has gone on unnoticed in this area for the last decade. Hopefully it will finally now come to a halt as the world is watching. The story actually made one of the major Toronto papers this morning. |
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Nov 3, 2014 19:50:53 GMT -5
These disappearances are nothing new for Mexico. My late Dad used to talk about this in the late 50s, early 60s.
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 4, 2014 10:29:57 GMT -5
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Nov 4, 2014 10:57:07 GMT -5
I have been hearing about the missing people for a while. Crazy that someone would have 43 executed. I thought they had found where they had been buried, but I guess not. Yeah, I've been hearing about his for a couple of months, I think it is now. And I thought they found bodies but not the right bodies.  |
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Nov 4, 2014 14:08:16 GMT -5
I have been hearing about the missing people for a while. Crazy that someone would have 43 executed. I thought they had found where they had been buried, but I guess not. Yeah, I've been hearing about his for a couple of months, I think it is now. And I thought they found bodies but not the right bodies. They've found the mass graves, just not the right mass graves. |
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Nov 5, 2014 9:09:23 GMT -5
The news article was in the newspaper today and they don't know the location of the students.
Thank G-d I live in America.
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 8, 2014 2:32:23 GMT -5
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