Mexico's Agenda With the United States: The Horror of the Drug War - Javier Sicilia Javier Sicilia - Proceso
go to original April 26, 2013

MEXICO CITY - Mexico - it is already a terrible cliche - has more than 70,000 killed and about 30,000 disappeared in less than seven years, according to official data. Beginning with the massacre in Newtown [CT] in December of 2012, which killed twenty children, the United States reports 2,657 murders to the present date. In one way or another, all have been victims of guns, many of them involve assault weapons, sold legally and illegally in the United States.

These are just numbers, statistics that create a perception far from reality, as if we were to look at a model that says nothing about the horror. In order to understand, you have to hear the story of the victims, what we see every night and what wakens us with a start. For two years now, in my loneliness I keep looking for my Juanelo and his six friends subdued by gunmen. They are alone in front of them, terrified. They insult them, beat them with the butts of their guns and lock them in a warehouse. Their fear is growing. They argue, ask, beg.

But those guys feel safe behind the arrogance of their weapons and beat them again. They humiliate them more, strip them, spit on them, torture them, humiliate them. They have slowly been destroying their humanity, filling them with animal terror. My Juanelo has seen his friends die by suffocation in plastic bags - those imbeciles don't want to use their weapons to avoid calling attention. It's his turn.

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