Recently, four Americans who traveled to Matamoros, Mexico — one for plastic surgery — were attacked. Two were killed, two others held captive for days, one shot repeatedly, before they were rescued. Then, there were three Latina women from a Texas border town who went over the border. They’ve been missing since February, after traveling to a flea market in Montemorelos, Mexico.
But, meanwhile, tens of thousands of Mexicans remain missing in cases that have gone unsolved, some of them for decades. This includes the 2014 case we’ve followed closely of 43 young men from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college who were attacked and forcibly disappeared.
In the context of the case of the Americans who were killed and the others that were missing, and the over 100,000 Mexicans who are missing and disappeared, as you mentioned at the top, the Ayotzinapa case is a kind of paradigmatic example, if you will, of, or stands in, if you will, for all of the thousands of missing Mexicans, in that it shows the tremendous impunity that still dominates these cases of disappeared, which are not solved. The people are not found, and nobody is punished.
— source democracynow.org | Mar 15, 2023