Mom killed while demanding justice for slain teen

[harvey007]

Source: Associated Press

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Gunmen have killed a mother protesting in front of the governor's office in northern Mexico to demand justice for her slain daughter.

State prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez says the three masked men pulled up in a car and shot Marisela Escobedo Ortiz.

Escobedo had been protesting for three days in front of the governor's palace in Chihuahua. She had been campaigning for justice in the killing of her teenage daughter since a judge exonerated the main suspect in April.

Seventeen-year-old Rubi Frayre Escobedo's body was found dismembered and burned in 2008. Her live-in boyfriend had been charged with her murder.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121702556.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Que desgracia.

[midnight]

2. This poor mother had to do the job of the broken justice system.

[duhneece]

3. No justice = no peace

What do I do when I find myself waking up to this nightmare, just 100 miles south of where I live?
I feel paralyzed..so powerless to do anything, but also the conflicting urge to DO SOMETHING.

[sweetapogee]

4. answer...

time to hit the streets.

[Rage for Order]

5. She did hit the streets, and she got murdered n/t

[sweetapogee]

11. now

It's your turn.

[Rage for Order]

6. I'm beginning to think the only hope for Mexico is prolonged Martial Law

Strict curfews and lethal force until the cartels have been eliminated

[midnight armadillo]

8. and.....

....legalization in the US.

Or as was mentioned in a Harper's article I read: drugs are a $350 billion/yr industry in north america. Where do the cartels stash their money? Journalists in Juarez suspect it's on Wall St.

[AlphaCentauri]

9. ....and

the flow of US made guns stops

[midnight armadillo]

10. well there's that too

but without US guns they'll just import them from somewhere else.

that said I'll wager there's some gunshops near the border that sell an awful lot of guns for a small storefront operation...

[Blue_Tires]

12. it's no secret...

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html


Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money And Getting Away With It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-carter/megabanks-are-laundering_b_645885.html

[ChumbawambaFan]

13. Wow, thanks for posting those two links. nt

[Judi Lynn]

7. Anti-crime crusader's family's business torched

Posted on Sat, Dec. 18, 2010
Anti-crime crusader's family's business torched

The Associated Press

Relatives of an anti-crime crusader who was gunned down this week outside a Mexican state governor's office had their family business burned down Saturday by unknown arsonists, firefighters reported.

The blaze that consumed the lumber operation in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, was apparently set intentionally, the local fire department said in a statement.

The business belongs to the family of Jose Monge, the husband of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, who waged a two-year battle to bring her 17-year-old daughter's killer to justice before she herself was shot to death.

State prosecutors had not received a formal complaint about the fire and did not say whether it was believed to be related to Escobedo's murder.

Escobedo's daughter, Rubi Frayre Escobedo, disappeared in Ciudad Juarez in 2008, and her burned, dismembered remains were found in a trash bin the following June.

Escobedo launched a campaign pressing for justice in the case, staging numerous marches including one when she wore no clothes, wrapped only in a banner with her daughter's photograph.

The main suspect in the killing, Sergio Barraza, was ordered released in April for lack of evidence, and this week Escobedo planted herself in front of the offices of Gov. Cesar Duarte and vowed not to move until investigators showed progress in the case.

More:
http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/18/1611698/anti-crime-crusaders-familys-business.html

http://www.laparadadigital.com.nyud.net:8090/~laparada/images/stories/Sep2010/MadredeRubi03112010.jpg

Murdered wife of her surviving husband, Marisela Escobedo Ortiz

http://www.noticiasaldia.com.mx.nyud.net:8090/img/notas/18417_9813090d8a.jpg

Murdered daughter of her surviving father, Rubi Frayre Escobedo.
According to other information, the father of the murdered teenager had even offered the daughter's boyfriend a job working in his company. The boyfriend already had a daughter with another woman. The mother described her daughter's situation with Sergio as being a "second concubine."

This doesn't look like a typical drug gang story the corporate media should try to dump on the heap of "drug related crime" in Mexico which the U.S. military should "git" after, since what happened with the daughter and her jealous boyfriend, Sergio, clearly had been going on for at least a couple of years before the murder, and the murder cover-up attempt by Sergio, and the ensuing catastrophes occurred.

Here's one story in Spanish:
http://politikkon.com/?p=5942

http://politikkon.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Marisol.jpg