Reply #1: Do you think any of these people were also involved in growing dope?

[Judi Lynn]

I found an article which mentions Rogaciano Alba, but I grasped very little from it other than "cows" and "pigs" and "corn" and "beans!"

En Guerrero trabajamos para generar la confianza de la población y lograr resultados positivos: Zeferino Torreblanca

22/08/2007
Dirección General de Comunicación Social

BOLETIN DE PRENSA No 797-07

http://www.guerrero.gob.mx/?P=leearticulo&ArtOrder=ReadArt&Article=2306&TV=imprimir

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UH, OH! Look at this one:Army Atrocities in Mexico
Army Atrocities in Mexico
October 02, 2002 By Alice Hutchinson

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Ever since Lucio Cabanas formed his Party of the Poor guerrilla movement, a 1960's equivalent of Marcos's Zapatistas, and took up arms against the Government for their murder of a group of teachers, the state has kept a firm grip on Guerrero. 'It was not a war. It was state repression', is how Navarrete recalls the forced disappearances of student activists, teachers, guerrillas, union organisers and peasant leaders who opposed the Government during the dirty war years.

Two decades later, the disappearances continue. Over the last seven years, 123 members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Mexico's centre-left political party have 'disappeared' in Guerrero. 60 political prisoners have been jailed on false charges. Though the military is blamed for most of the violence, 9 cases of 'disappearances' at the hands of the Guerrero State Judicial Police have been carefully documented. Today 40,000 soldiers remain in Guerrero under the pretext of fighting the 10 or so active guerrilla groups, and drug traffickers. Local experience also suggests they are present to destroy political opposition.

'The army planted the drug crops first' says Miriam Hernandez, a political activist, who worked in Guerrero but now lives in Canada. 'It gave them the perfect excuse to keep fighting us'. Army support for cattle rancher, and drug trafficker Rogaciano Alba Alvarez, key figure in the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) political structure, is well known. Unlike the majority of Mexican states who voted to overthrow the PRI in the year 2000, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas remain controlled by PRI political bosses cooperating with paramilitary forces and the Mexican army.

More:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/11603

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There's a whole lot behind this story, AlphaCentauri. Yikes.