The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is planning to publish a report in the coming weeks which will reveal the deep rough of what could be one of the least documented humanitarian tragedies of the century: the abduction on Mexican soil than 20,000 migrants American per year. Raul Plascencia Villanueva, president of the National Human Rights Commission said Thursday that his office has documented from April to September after a collective total of 214 kidnappings.On each shot, the criminals caught about 50 illegal immigrants on average. The NHRC is a public body equivalent to the Ombudsman in Spain. The figure of 20,000 kidnapped each year in line with the Commission's own conclusion after a study conducted between 2008 and 2009. But this time, the ombudsman said that the report will have a novel structure, methodology and identification of cases, and the nationality of migrants, and provide testimony.
The report "can largely be an overview of what's happening." Most migrants are kidnapped in the states of Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco, San Luis Potosí, Coahuila and Tamaulipas. Many begin their journey on Mexican soil addressing the Beast, a goods train and nicknamed leaving Chiapas, state bordering Guatemala.
The train was detained by immigration authorities to apprehend illegal immigrants. But those operations have been reported as part of a criminal plot that, by causing the dispersal of the undocumented, in fact leads directly to the kidnappers. Therefore, at the request of the Honduran foreign ministries, Guatemalan and Salvadoran, from last week's National Migration Institute (INM) suspended the operations review undocumented night.
Plascencia explained that for every criminals kidnapped a payment request in each case varies, but generally point "of $ 5,000 to 15,000, depending on the condition [socioeconomic] which meets every one of them." He also said that evidence collected from victims and witnesses of the kidnapping is apparent complicity with the criminal authorities "are referred to the intervention of police and INM elements involved in such operations in apparent collusion with criminals.
" Ombudsman information prompted an angry response from the Mexican government. Salvador Beltran del Rio, commissioner of the National Migration Institute, told the newspaper El Universal on the numbers of kidnappings: "We categorically deny it, the NHRC figures are not real, do not match the numbers we have.
I just had meetings with representatives of NGOs in the south of the country and those numbers do not match those of the commission chaired by Raúl Plascencia. The National Migration Institute, however, has not reported how many, they say, kidnapped migrants annually. The tragedy has also been documented by various advocacy groups, human rights, which have accused the INM of indolence and agents of that government agency of involvement in kidnappings.
Yesterday, several human rights defenders began in Arriaga, Chiapas, where part of the Beast, the so-called Caravan Step by Step to Peace, with which denounce the vulnerability of migrants. Among the authors of the kidnapping, the activists say they may be both criminal group of Los Zetas and gangs like Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS 13).
Last December, authorities in El Salvador reported a collective kidnappings of 40 people in the area of Chahuites, State of Oaxaca, an event that the office first denied Beltran del Rio for a day after accepting interviews with 12 American traveling with the kidnapped. Three weeks later, the Mexican attorney has not reported any progress in that case, just one of almost daily crimes against the supposedly 400,000 illegal immigrants crossing Mexico each year.
The most serious incident occurred last August when 72 migrants were shot in Tamaulipas.
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