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| For Rantburg's Sunday Morning Coffee Pot: The Buenaventura 3 |
| 2012-02-25 |
| A Mexican army battalion commander is currently on trial for ordering the murders of two of his subordinates in early 2010. At around the same time as those murders, three petty thieves were arrested by men in military uniforms in Buenaventura in Galeana municipality in western Chihuahua state. Human rights activists and family members of the three disappeared say the commander is responsible, but some evidence exculpates the commander: Relatives had said the three were taken to the Nuevas Casas Grandes army base, while officials both at the local army garrison as well as at higher commands denied having them. A human rights report stated that on February 4th, a friend of one of the victims, received a brief telephone call from Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza. A local prosecutor in Galeana attempted to trace the call but failed. The army has consistently denied knowing the whereabouts or fate of the three victims, a contention which has appeared to be true. On Rantburg's Sunday Morning Coffee Pot |
| Posted by:badanov |