Narco law reigns in paradise: The unsolved massacre of young people from Tlaxcala
The Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office has focused its investigation on a ‘settling of scores.’ The lack of evidence, the involvement of the Huatulco police, and the impunity with which organized crime operates in the region underlie the case
They killed Angie Pérez, 29, who had a four-year-old son. They killed Rubén Antonio Ramos, who at 24 has left his mother heartbroken. They killed Guillermo Cortés, whose family had filed a missing person report, but by the time authorities made it public, he was already dead. They killed Rolando Evaristo and Uriel Calva, whose dozens of friends said goodbye. They killed Lesly Noya, 21, athletic, smiling, nicknamed “Huesitos” by her sister. They killed the married couple Yamilet López and Raúl Emmanuel González, both 28. They killed Jacqueline Meza after her mother alerted the police that she had been kidnapped. They killed nine young women, who they took from the coast of Oaxaca, dumping them 250 miles away. They killed them all, and the authorities, who do not mourn them, dispense justice under the slogan of a “settling of scores.”
