Genaro Villamil: The Narco Burial of 'The Mexican Moment' in Guerrero Genaro Villamil - Proceso
go to original October 15, 2014

The dreams of the promoters of the government that has "moved Mexico" have now been definitely fulfilled. The government of Enrique Peña Nieto is on all the front pages of international newspapers. The most important stories point to our country. Hundreds of journalists are following the national events. The major television networks have assigned their correspondents and their teams.

Too bad that so much interest is not in the "structural reforms" and the epic story of how Peña Nieto was able to "move Mexico."

The interest is in the graves and the 43 Ayotzinapa normal school students missing since the 26 and 27 of September. The narcofosas [narcograves]. The hidden graves that don't stop being found, just within a very short perimeter surrounding the town of Iguala. Today, Iguala is the epicenter of political decay, just as, 10 months ago, it was Apatzingán in Michoacan. As, perhaps next, Ecatepec , in the State of Mexico [bordering Mexico City] may become, where they have discovered 21 remains of something the government of Eruviel Ávila denies are human bodies.

Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam has now refocused media attention: he says that of the 28 bodies exhumed in the first five graves found around Iguala, none belong to the 43 missing Ayotzinapa normal school students.

So who they are? Who killed, skinned and dumped them in these sites where the most horrible face of Mexico at war is being written?

Hours before the announcement by Attorney Murillo Karam, near the town of La Parota, also near Iguala four other mass graves were found. They were found by relatives of the victims and with the help of community self-defense corps that have gone into action to locate these youth.

From the beginning, were false clues regarding the graves given to divert attention? Why weren't the whole Army, the Gendarmerie, and the state and federal investigative police able find these four other graves where presumably other bodies must lie, perhaps other young people who were thrown to death by this kind of narco-cleptocracy that is governing Guerrero?

The major problem is not just the 43 missing normal school students. They have humanized the horror. They have generated national and international shock such as has not been seen even with the massacre of 72 migrants [April 2011] in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.

Finding the 43 normal school students alive is a glimmer of hope amidst the darkness that doesn't end. They are the clearest case demonstrating the power plays of the ineffable Angel Aguirre, his accomplices in the leadership of the PRD [Party of the Democratic Revolution], his links with Peña Nieto and his business with the grandson of Ruben Figueroa [governor of Guerrero, 1975-81, during the "Dirty War"].

Finding 43 normalistas Ayotzinapa is becoming a Dantesque journey. In less than 10 days, nine graves have been found around Iguala. No less than 40 bodies must be buried in those sites. They are not the only ones. They will find more.

What will international public opinion ask? Does it feel pain that two weeks have passed and the young students are still missing? Will it launch bravos to Peña Nieto's government that "bravely" sacrifices its political capital in the face of a disgraced governor in order to end impunity, at least in speeches?

The most logical and common questions from the international press will be: Since when did you know that there are such "narco-cemeteries" in the municipalities of Guerrero, the State of Mexico, and surely in Michoacan and Tamaulipas? How many are there? Who is investigating? How many invisible, unaccounted, expendable dead have been forgotten by the Mexican State?

We are on the verge of the worst nightmare for the regime and for Mexican society. And the international press may not stop following the story for a very simple reason: this is the Mexican Moment. Spanish original

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