Keena Wilson
6 April 2011
Mexico: Thousands missing in drugs war
Blog #11
Many people have heard about the drug war that has been going on in Mexico, but it is hard to say if many people have heard about the disappearances that have been going along with it. A Mexican human rights organization says thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Mexico's human rights commission, CNDH, said 5,397 people had been reported missing since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels. The CNDH collated data provided by relatives and by state authorities and included all of those "reported missing or absent". The commission said 3,457 of those disappeared were men and 1,885 women, while there was no data on the remaining 55 cases. The CNDH said it was investigating the reasons behind the disappearances, and stated that the figure included those kidnapped for ransom and economic migrants from within Mexico and Central America whose whereabouts were unknown. The figures were released just days after the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said it had received reports of several cases of forced disappearances allegedly carried out by Mexican soldiers. Mr. Calderon has deployed 50,000 troops since he declared war on the cartels. The UN group urged the Mexican government to stop using the army in drug operations. But, President Calderon reasoning for using the army was to curb the violence perpetrated by the country's drug cartels in which more than 34,000 have been killed since he took office.
When reading this article I guess you could say that this could be used as a topic under war or war and terror, but this too could be a topic under crime as well. Selling drugs, kidnapping, and killing others are crimes. This article really stuck out as a social global problem because there are some public outcries happening, people have also become actively involved in discussing this problem (United Nations), and there has also been a rapid increase in the number of people affected by this drug war problem (the disappearances). When the countries own army gets involved and starts killing there own people it becomes a social global problem. No one can help a country when its government is killing there own people and covering it up. There have been many drug wars around the world, but at the moment it’s Mexico that needs to be focused on. People, innocent or not, are disappearing and this is a problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12948840
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