Boycott Mexico!

[TK n Happy Ness]

When it comes to law enforcement, Mexicans don't know what the hell they're doing. Read this. http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20060228-006/page.asp

"We are innocent and we have nothing to hide."

That was the emphatic statement made Tuesday night by two women from Thunder Bay, who after a seemingly innocuous vacation, have found themselves at the epicentre of a swirling storm of controversy concerning an horrific double homicide in Mexico.

Mexican authorities seem to feel that the mothers may be culpable in the gruesome murders of Domenic and Annunziata Ianiero, who had their throats cut in their Mayan resort hotel room a week ago.

Canadian officials suspect the two women may have accidentally tracked the victims' blood back to their nearby rooms as they unknowingly walked past the crime scene.

But there are fears Mexican authorities are going to initiate extradition proceedings against the duo, a move that could leave them languishing in a jail cell waiting for a trial that could take years to begin.

For Cheryl Everald and Kimberly Kim, the suspicions against them are both absurd and astonishing.

"It's ridiculous, I don't even know how to express it in words," Kim complains, after the pair finally broke their silence at a press conference Tuesday night.

"Emotionally, you don't know what you're going to go through from minute to minute. One minute you're crying, the next minute -- it's terrifying and you get very upset.

"It's devastating. Everyday we wake up, you open your eyes thinking it's a dream and it's not."

Their lawyer is anticipating a possible return demand from Mexican authorities and doesn�t intend to take it lying down.

"We're making preparations to deal with it, should it come to that," confirms Lee Baig. "We would, at the hearing, fight it tooth and nail."

Baig is furious that his clients are apparently being made scapegoats to protect the country's tourist industry.

"In December they had a double murder," he indicates. "They've pinned that apparently on local people in Mexico. So they couldn't really handle more. And we're very concerned about that.

"They leapt to that conclusion. Canadian women fled the scene. Well, Canadians left when they were supposed to leave, but nobody fled."

The women claim they boarded their scheduled return flight when they were supposed to. And there was nothing sinister in their departure.

Neither seems the type to be able to commit such a gruesome knife murder. Both work in the health care industry. Both are mothers of two young children. And for Everald, the timing is especially horrible.

She's just taken a leave of absence from her McMaster University studies to care for her seriously ill father. And both are close to cracking under the strain.

Meanwhile, the victims' families are waiting for answers and through their grief are watching with alarm as the case appears to be going nowhere.

Dave Deyell knows exactly what the Ianieros are experiencing. He's lived it before.

The Calgary father was forced to deal with Mexican authorities two years ago, when his exchange student daughter Kristen was murdered in the country after coming out of a bar late at night.

"They just don't have the resources to handle any case that I would consider sophisticated," he notes.

"They initially referred to our daughter's death as an accident, and it took a considerable amount of time before they acknowledged that it was actually a murder."

The son of a drug kingpin has been charged in that killing, but Deyell contends that was a result of a fluke - it only came after he was arrested for something else.

And his family, like the Ianieros, are still enduring a long and lonely wait for justice they're not sure will ever come.

"They have only one person that they have charged for our daughter's murder and there's three other suspects still out there," he laments.

And this isn't the first time where Mexican authories are being idiots. They've had a segment twice on America's Most Wanted where American tourists go to Mexico and get kidnapped, yet no one down there is doing anything about it.

 

[Fig]

Would like to note that the investigation is in the hand of a known crook, who is involved in another trial entirely - on the defendants side - where he allegedly threw a journalist in jail over no reason because she had denounced the mexican sex industry (at the financial request of a sex baron), despite said journalist being under state protection.

Essentialy, the man who has made all those accusations is entirely untrustworthy.

 

[Gato Gurl914]

looks like mexico is digging one deep grave

 

[Barb]

This doesn't surprise me. All levels of authority in Mexico, from the president down to the police officers, redefine the word 'corruption.'