POLICY ANALYSIS: Mexican Family Tragedy at the Epicenter of U.S. Aid and Military Abuse http://witnessforpeace.org/article.php?id=1120

Josefina Reyes was assassinated with a gunshot to the head outside her barbeque stand last January. Her crime? Protesting the U.S.-backed war on drugs that has killed almost 35,000 Mexicans since 2006. A long-time women’s rights advocate, Josefina never imagined that she would lose five family members and her own life for her activism. Then thousands of military troops were sent to Chihuahua. It was 2008, and U.S. funding was unleashing the Mexican Army on drug traffickers throughout the country. 

The consequences of the heightened military presence prohibited Josefina from staying silent. When the military placed thirteen of her neighbors under pre-charge detention, Josefina petitioned for their release. Then she spoke at a conference titled “Forum Against Militarization and Repression.” That was about all it took: her son was disappeared several days later. 

“There are powerful interests that want to silence the Reyes family,” says Josefina's sister Marisela. After Josefina's murder, the family continued speaking out. And as a result, they’ve buried six murdered loved ones, despite the fact that they were granted protection by the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights. It’s “because we don't shut up,” says Olga Reyes Salazar. With the help of U.S. aid through the Mérida Initiative, Mexican President Calderón has sent 50,000 soldiers and federal police to the streets of Mexican cities and towns. The deployment has corresponded to an increase in human rights violations: the military has been named in over 4,200 formal human rights accusations since 2007.

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[ALSO SEE..US-FAKE WAR ON DRUGS-Consumers and Guns, Assassins and Money: Mexico’s Transnational Violence https://nacla.org/news/consumers-and-guns-assassins-and-money-mexico’s-transnational-violence Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/04/mexican-narco-trafficker-s-revelation-exposes-drug-war-s-duplicity   

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Sinaloa Drug Cartel Controlled and Protected by Both Mexican and U.S http://deadlinelive.info/2011/04/15/deadline-live-exclusive-sinaloa-drug-cartel-controlled-and-protected-by-both-mexican-and-u-s-governments/ U.S.-Backed Programs Supplying the Firepower for Mexico’s Soaring Murder Rate Felipe Calderón's Drug War Has Become Hot Market for U.S. Arms Trade http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/04/us-backed-programs-supplying-firepower-mexico-s-soaring-murder-rate

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Najjar: US, Zionist regime assist drug dealers http://english.iribnews.ir/NewsBody.aspx?ID=13526 Afghan MP Unveils Western Forces' Involvement in Drug Trafficking http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8901301473 CIA Sets up Laboratories along Borders to Smuggle Hallucinogenic Drugs to Iran http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9002140538  (go thru my war on drugs section archives ... http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/search/label/war%20on%20drugs