Forced Disappearances in Mexico: Victims Are 'Neither Living nor Dead' - Author Aristegui CNN
go to original June 13, 2014

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In the book Neither Living nor Dead, about forced disappearances “we see that this horrible practice is, in reality, a means of terrorizing the public”, asserted Federico Mastrogiovanni, the author of the work.

“I came across a subject I wasn’t expecting. The central theme is the attempt to understand… I was working with the subject of migration and it turned out that there were many disappearances. I came into contact with this subject in a real way.”

For that reason “I decided to write this book because the topic was too big. What we see in recent years is the treatment of forced disappearances as an apparent coincidence. They go unnoticed, as if they were individual and unrelated events, when in reality we have this happening on such a large scale, and we go back to the origins of this strategy with roots in Nazi Germany...”, said the journalist in an interview with Carmen Aristegui on CNN.

The book shows “distinct cases, in different places within the country, but they have the common thread of being cases of victims in which it has been demonstrated that there was an intervention by the State”.

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Translated by Chris Brown

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