Human Rights Commission Investigates Deaths of US Citizens Near Mexican Border Donovan Longo - Latin Times
go to original November 5, 2014

CNN's Ashleigh Banfield talks to Rafael Romo about three U.S. siblings killed in Mexico along with another man. (CNN)

The mysterious deaths of Erica Alvarado, Alex Alvarado and Jose Angel Alvarado, all siblings, all American citizens, have prompted Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission to investigate in the northern Mexico border city where their bodies were discovered. The youths, all in their 20s, were kidnapped on October 13 according to witnesses, as they returned to Texas from a trip to visit their father in El Control. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is an independent governmental body that investigates alleged cases of abuse. Following the grisly discovery, the organization sent several investigators to the border city of Matamoros.

The commission hopes to find answers to the multiple inquires about the death of the Alvarado siblings, who were each found bound at their hands and their feet, with a gun shot would to the head. There was also a fourth victim, identified as Jose Castaneda; the Alvarado family revealed that he was Erica’s boyfriend. All four were killed the same day they disappeared, according to a spokesman for the State Attorney General's Office. The siblings’ final resting place was located in the border state of Tamaulipas, which has experienced cartel-related violence for more than four years.

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