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School Children in Mexico Recruited by Police to Stop Kidnappings
Four Americans Kidnapped in Mexico as FBI Demands Safe Return
Kidnapped at gunpoint: 4 Americans taken in northern border city of Matamoros, Mexico BBC 7 MAR 2023 https://dmn-dallas-news-prod.cdn.arc...25L5QUWHY4.jpg Members of the National Guard wait for members of the General Attorneys Office to leave The FBI has posted a £41,637 reward for the return of the victims and the arrest of their kidnappers. Four Americans have been shot and snatched in a city on the US-Mexico border, the FBI has claimed. The unnamed Americans were kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said Sunday. The Americans had crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to buy medicine and were caught in a crossfire between two armed groups, says Mexico’s president |
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Shocking Video Shows Moment Kidnapped Americans Were Loaded Into Pickup
2 Americans kidnapped in Matamoros on ‘tummy tuck’ trip are found dead BBC 8 MAR 2023 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lQ...581d90c34e9c0e https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/u...trip=all&w=960 The two Americans who authorities say were kidnapped in Mexico and found dead have been identified as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation tells CNN. The two survivors have been identified as Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams, according to the source. CNN's Jake Tapper discusses this further with Rosa Flores, Josh Campbell, and Gustavo Valdés. |
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Children in Mexico Recruited by Volunteer Police to Stop Kidnappings
Mexico High Schoolers Take Up Arms After Village Kidnappings Previously Some Americans Were Kidnapped in Mexico MailOnline 26 JAN 2024 http://static-29.sinclairstoryline.c...?1578402118912 https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/01...9788465380.jpg ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organized crime. Armed with rifles and sticks, and with their faces covered, boys and girls paraded around the local sports field this week before joining a patrol in Ayahualtempa, a mountain village in the southwestern state of Guerrero. "We can't study because of lawlessness," one recruited teenager told the Milenio television channel. The boy explained how he had learned to shoot a gun after a handful of lessons. Violence has recently escalated in Guerrero, one of the poorest states in Mexico. In early January, a drone attack allegedly carried out by drug cartel La Familia Michoacana killed around 30 people, human rights groups say. In Ayahualtempa, four members of a local family have been missing since Friday when they were kidnapped, the Guerrero state prosecutor's office said. The minors are reinforcing the volunteer police force, and will do their best to guard the village of about 700 inhabitants while adults search for the missing people, said Antonio Toribio, a local official. "We're not going to allow them to kidnap us any more, or for people to keep disappearing," Toribio said. This is not the first time minors have been armed in Guerrero, where authorities have struggled to counter powerful drug trafficking gangs. |
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