as I have been reading these it strikes me that a collection of these stories by people who have lost family members in the Mexican Drug War would make a fantastic book -- or at least a long, major magazine article.
I don't feel competent to do itmyself, but some of you surely are.
For more information. go to www.caravanforpeace.org
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From: MAPNews <owner-mapnews@mapinc.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Subject: MN: US TX: Mother Talks Of Losing Four Sons
To: mapnews@mapinc.org
Newshawk: Herb
Pubdate: Sat, 25 Aug 2012
Source: Brownsville Herald, The (TX)
Copyright: 2012 The Brownsville Herald
Contact: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/contact/
Website: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1402
Author: Patricia Lopez
Cited: Caravan for Peace: http://www.caravanforpeace.org/caravan/
MOTHER TALKS OF LOSING FOUR SONS
Four sons of Maria Herrera Magdalena are missing.
"Two of my sons disappeared on August 28, 2008, in the state of
Guerrero," she said Thursday in a visit to the Rio Grande Valley.
"And after two years I again have the same thing happen. Two more
sons have disappeared."
Herrera Magdalena is part of the Caravan for Peace with Justice and
Dignity that is traveling across the United States to promote
bilateral efforts to end the drug violence in Mexico and along the border.
On Thursday, Brownsville was one of the caravan's two stops in the
Rio Grande Valley. The caravan began in Tijuana, Mexico, and is
scheduled to arrive in Washington on Sept. 12.
Traveling with Herrera Magdalena is a fifth son, Juan Carlos Trujillo Herrera.
The mother said in addition to her sons, 15 others from her town in
Guerrero have disappeared.
She addressed a crowd Thursday in Alamo, telling them why she and
others were traveling with the caravan.
"At this time we are not fighting for our own but for each and every
one of the children of the people who are here," she said.
Their hope is to stop the violence, she said.
"We do not want more people to go through the pain that we have been
going through," she said.
Another woman, Leticia Mora Nieto, approached a reporter to show a
photograph of a young woman.
Mora Nieto said it was her daughter.
"I come from Atizapan in the state of Mexico," she said. "I am with
the Caravan for Peace searching for justice."
Her daughter disappeared a year and four months ago, she said.
"She is 24 years old and the truth is, we have not had much of an
answer," she said. "People do not know what it is to live with this pain."
Her life, she said, has completely changed.
"My life is a different one. My family is already broken. I am over
here and they are over there," said Mora Nieto, who spoke with great anxiety.
"I am very frightened because nowadays you see a lot of people being
smuggled. Daughters are taken into prostitution. I am in this country
because there are many American clients and they go across the border
for those services," she said of her efforts to bring change.
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