Reyes Family: “Militarization of Drug War in Mexico to Blame for Extortions, Kidnappings and Murders” http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4326.html

Members of the Reyes Salazar family have criticized the military for a number of illegal acts, including extortion, harassment, and murder. In the last three years, six family members have been killed. All of the incidents involve suspicious circumstances that happened after the family began denouncing the Army for human rights abuses.“Please know that militarization is largely to blame for so much extortion, so many kidnappings, and so many murders that we’re seeing in Ciudad Juarez.” says Marisela Reyes Salazar in an interview with Narco News. Marisela’s sister, Malena, her brother, Elías, and his wife, Luisa Ornelas Soto, were kidnapped on Feb. 7 by six heavily armed men in ski masks while driving on a highway near the city.

[also see>Plan Mexico and the US-Funded Militarization of Mexico http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/31/plan_mexico  Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16654