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...been taunted, called names - from dirty Mexican to lots of other names - as I was growing up, and even now as a United States Senator. To have that personal experience in having gone through that kind of discrimination, it helps in terms of informing the debate and bringing a certain sense of reality to some of the issues we are dealing with on a national level." -New York Times, June...
...result, two directors of the state's recently created antikidnapping unit have been abducted and are still missing. Many believe Batista's kidnapping is part of that counteroffensive. "This is clearly a message to back off," says a former Mexican senator...
...after giving antiabduction seminars to businessmen last week - classes that few others but local cops knew about. A Coahuila source familiar with the investigation tells TIME that one of the executives with Batista was also kidnapped but was returned, badly beaten, earlier this week. The abductors' unspoken warning to Mexican and U.S. officials alike: We will no longer tolerate anyone who makes our work more difficult. "Sometimes a kidnapping group takes someone not so much for money but to coerce," says Mexican security expert Arturo Alvarado of the Colegio de Mexico. "This sounds like one of those times...
...officials will not comment yet on Batista's case. But as ASI, his family and Mexican authorities now try to win his release, Batista, a Cuban American from Miami, can only hope they're using a negotiator as talented as he is. Dozens of Mexican families who have endured kidnapping ordeals praise him. Says one Mexican who watched Batista successfully broker the releases of a relative and a friend, "He is resourceful and honest, something that one needs in these cases." (See the top 10 news stories...
...drug cartel war and an equally vicious convulsion of criminal abduction. Kidnapping is such a booming business south of the border that an astonishing 5% of the country's 106 million people report having been a victim or having known one, according to a new survey by the Mexican polling firm Gabinete de Comunicacion Estrategica. In the same poll, 45% of Mexicans who have a phone line said they've been victims of telephone extortion, in which persons call a residence, claim they've abducted a family member and demand a ransom. Often the claims of abduction are false...