An believably brave lady, I salute you and may you rest in peace.
Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned
She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down
She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter
The former mayor leaves behind three children
They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors’ car willingly.
Gorrostieta’s body – stabbed, burned, battered and bound at wrist and ankle – would finally be found eight days on dumped by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township.
Gorrostieta was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008.
She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down
She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter
The former mayor leaves behind three children
The woman mayor who was kidnapped and
murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her
young daughter’s life, it emerged today.
Maria
Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination
attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was
ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia.
The
36-year-old was hauled from her vehicle and physically assaulted as
horrified witnesses watched, according to newspaper El Universal.
They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors’ car willingly.
The little girl was left wailing as her mother was driven away on Monday November 12.
For the next week, her frantic family waited by the phone for a ransom call that never came.
Gorrostieta’s body – stabbed, burned, battered and bound at wrist and ankle – would finally be found eight days on dumped by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township.
She left behind her daughter and two sons as well as her second husband Nereo Delgado Patinoran.
Hailed as a heroine of the 21st century, her death has prompted much soul-searching in a country ravaged by violence.
The
decision to withdraw her security team in November last year – and her
police escort in January – has come under particular scrutiny.
Gorrostieta was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008.
Almost
immediately, she received threats. The first assassination attempt came
in October 2009 when the car she was travelling in with her first
husband Jose Sanchez came under fire from gunmen in the town of El
Limone. The attack claimed his life but Gorrostieta lived.
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I don't understand why she (or someone else) withdrew security? None the less she is an example of someone brave enough to stand her ground while trying to effect some positive change for the citizens of her town, to give them hope..... all while the gangs run ruff shod over the (unarmed) citizenry.
ReplyDeleteDo not doubt for a moment that the brazen daylight attack on her and many, many others in Mexico, is soon to manifest itself north of the border. The Mexican drug gangs are already here, on the streets and in the prisons.... (MS13, etc.). Violent, well armed, and with no moral code restraining the depravity exercised against their victims. When the SHTF, the prisons will flow with blood, those that escape that hell will visit it on the innocents in their path....
Mrs. Gorrestieta's death is tragic, and the nature of her death horrific!
The evil exists right in your community, harden your hearts, prepare physically (to the extent that you are able) and mentally to face this reality. The gangs in this country be they imported or home grown have already set their sights on your community when it all comes apart.....
I don't understand why she (or someone else) withdrew security?
DeleteThat wasn't explained and very, very strange.
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The gangs in this country be they imported or home grown have already set their sights on your community when it all comes apart.....
My big worry is not having more than one family at a location.