Tagged: Michoacán

3 women shot to death with assault rifles in central Mexico; 8 bodies found in western Mexico

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUST 18, 2012 MEXICO CITY – Police found the bodies of three women who were shot to death early Saturday with assault rifles on a roadside in the central Mexico state of Morelos. The women were believed to be between the ages of 20 and 25,…

Michoacan, no man’s land or official transnational terrorism Lab?

by Mattia Pascal 11/08/2012 The ineptitude, corruption and neglect of the former Leonel Godoy Rangel (Democratic Revolutionary Party) (PRD) government that the current constitutional governor of Michoacan, Fausto Vallejo, inherited, are reflected every day in the Purepecha Meseta.

Parents of missing youth in Paracho beg for their release

The parents of the three young people deprived of their liberty on 22 July in Paracho, Michoacan visited the capital in order to call for their release. At a press conference, Laura Beatriz Guerrero Castaneda, Guadalupe Nava, Juan Manuel Castañeda Guerrero said they do not need to know who took…

„Movimiento Ciudadano“ activists kidnapped

Press-clip from „El Economista.mx“ on July 26th 2012 This weekend two members of the party „Movimiento Ciudadano“ were abducted in Paracho, Michoacán. Luis Enrique Castañeda Nava, coordinator of the party’s youth movement and Diego Antonio Maldonado Castañeda, activist and psychologist, along with Ana Belen Sánchez, also psychologist, were hired by…

Abduction of three young persons in Paracho, Michoacan, Mexico

July 22, 2012 in Paracho, Michoacan. Two psychologists, Diego Maldonado Castañeda (34) and Ana Sánchez Mayorga Belém (30) and Luis Enrique Castañeda Nava (28), youth coordinator of the Movimento Ciudadano party, were kidnapped from Hotel Santa Fe in the early hours of Sunday July 22nd. So far the police have…