{"id":4762,"date":"2021-04-19T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:12:05","slug":"mexico-detains-30-marines-accused-of-disappearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2021\/04\/19\/mexico-detains-30-marines-accused-of-disappearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico detains 30 Marines accused of disappearances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearance of individuals in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014 according to the Navy on Monday. A Naval Secretariat said in a statement Monday, “Thirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General’s Office on April 9 in compliance with arrest warrants for alleged crime of forced disappearance of persons.” The Navy handed over the men “in strict adherence with protocol” so that prosecutors can “carry out the pertinent investigations”. The northern state of Tamaulipas has a history of violence with the connection of drug trafficking and has one of the highest rates of missing persons in the country. Most of the disappearances are blamed on drug cartels, but law enforcement officials are also to be blamed. Mondays arrests marked the largest detention of military personnel connected to enforced disappearances in Mexico’s history. At the end of 2006, the government launched a military offensive against the drug gangs and since December of last year, Mexico has had 80,517 reports of missing people. In the same time frame, 300,000 people have been killed with most of the deaths blamed on organised crime groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These arrests of military personnel are a step in the right direction to start the war against stopping the disappearances of individuals. These disappearances over the last couple years has caused unrest in the region because it could happen to anyone. The war against drugs in Mexico is also taking a heavy effect on these disappearances of individuals. My take on the article is that I think this is the right step in taking to put pressure on these individuals who are making people ‘disappear’. By arresting people it will strike fear into the eyes of these people because they know the government is on the lookout now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned in the article it’s not only the drug lords who are making these people disappear, it is also local police officials. This issue can be viewed on multiple levels of international relations. Beginning with the state level, Mexico has a large drug war which helps with the economic situations in the state. Expanding to a regional level, these disappearances are expanding into neighboring countries which causes the people to seek asylum. On a international level, nations such as the United States have tried to help Mexico control their drug problems from spreading into countries and creating internal conflicts within those countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

link to article Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearance of individuals in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014 according to the Navy on Monday. A Naval Secretariat said in a statement Monday, “Thirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General’s Office on April 9 in compliance with arrest warrants for… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}