{"id":118445,"date":"2021-04-13T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118445"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:02:20","slug":"mexico-detains-30-marines-accused-of-disappearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118445","title":{"rendered":"Mexico detains 30 Marines accused of disappearances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mexico-detains-30-Marines-accused-of-disppearances.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mexico-detains-30-Marines-accused-of-disppearances.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearances of an unspecified number of people in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014, the Navy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General\u2019s Office on April 9 in compliance with arrest warrants\u2026 for the alleged crime of forced disappearance of persons,\u201d the Navy Secretariat said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement did not elaborate on the precise date of the disappearances or the number of victims, but it said the arrests were related to investigations into events that occurred in Nuevo Laredo in the state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States, in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navy said it decided to hand over the uniformed men \u201cin strict adherence with protocol\u201d so that prosecutors can \u201ccarry out the pertinent investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamaulipas, long marred by violence linked to drug trafficking, has one of the highest rates of missing persons in the country, especially on roads that lead to the border with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the disappearances are blamed on drug cartels, but law enforcement officials, especially state and municipal police, have also been charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday\u2019s announcement marked the largest detention of military personnel in connection with enforced disappearances in recent years in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had announced that arrest warrants were being prepared against the military for the disappearance in 2014 of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa school in the southern state of Guerrero, but it has not officially reported whether those warrants have already been carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between the end of 2006, when the government launched a military offensive against the drug gangs, and December of last year, Mexico had 80,517 reports of missing persons, according to official figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same period, some 300,000 people have been killed, with most of the deaths blamed on organized crime groups. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearances of an unspecified number of people in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014, the Navy said. \u201cThirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General\u2019s Office on April 9 in compliance with arrest warrants\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}