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...confessed drug cartel hood whose alias is "The Nut Job," Marco Vinicio Cobo is remarkably calm and plain-looking. Sitting in the blue-walled interrogation room of a Mexican army base, the chubby, goatee-bearded 30-year-old coolly describes his work for the Zetas, a feared paramilitary force responsible for thousands of brutal murders. And even when he details how his bosses kidnapped and chopped the head off a soldier, he appears relaxed and unemotional, as if he were discussing the weather. But despite the unsettling indifference of its tone, Cobo's confession - of which a video has been...
...Born in 1957 to Juana and Raul Solis, who met in citizenship classes in California. Solis' mother, a native of Nicaragua, worked on an assembly line while her father, a Mexican immigrant, worked as a steward for the Teamsters union...
Worse, a growing number of Mexican kidnappings end up as murders - including the cases of two affluent teenagers found killed this year in Mexico City. The family of one, Fernando Marti, 14, had actually already paid a ransom of more than $2 million. Even those victims who are spared are increasingly returned with body parts like ears missing: their abductors send them to relatives to frighten them into delivering ransom more quickly. "We cannot live under this pressure," says one upper-middle-class Saltillo woman who has seen several family members kidnapped in recent years. "All the time...
Batista's Dec. 10 kidnapping seems to point to a likely source of that scared life: Mexican police. Not because they fail to catch the kidnappers but because they often are the kidnappers. Sometimes narco-criminals, especially the notorious Zetas gang, do the deed; but since Mexico's abduction spree began more than a decade ago, cops have almost always been involved (as they often are in narco-related crime as well). Federal police officers who allegedly form a kidnapping gang called La Banda de la Flor (the Flower Gang) were recently arrested in the case of Marti, whose decomposed...
According to Reporte Indigo, a prominent Mexican online newsmagazine, government memos show that federal authorities had known about La Banda's kidnapping activities as early as five years ago but did nothing to stop them. Says Luis Simon, a friend of another young abduction-murder victim in Mexico City, Silvia Vargas, "Silvia was a victim not only of the kidnappers but also of our authorities...