Torture in Mexico: Miriam Lopez Still Thinks it Was a Nightmare Amnesty International
go to original June 24, 2013

30-year-old housewife and mother of four children, Miriam López, from Mexico, tells her story after being arbitrarily arrested, tortured and raped by Mexican soldiers. (AmnestyInternational)

It took Miriam Isaura López Vargas several weeks to piece together what happened to her after she was tortured and raped by Mexican soldiers.

On 2 February 2011, the 30-year-old mother of four had just dropped three of her children at school in the city of Ensenada, in northern Mexico, when two men wearing balaclavas forced her into a white van and took her away.

Until then, Miriam didn't know the men were soldiers or that she was being taken to a military barracks. She was blindfolded and her hands were tied.

“I didn’t know who they were or anything, and when I asked them they put a gun to my head and told me to shut up or they would blow my head off,” she told Amnesty International.

Miriam was then taken to a military barracks in the city of Tijuana, around 84 kilometres away, where she was kept for a week.

And, she says, they were the worst seven days of her life.

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