Thursday, November 29, 2012

'Please spare my little girl': How Mexico's fearless female mayor sacrificed herself to save her daughter's life as she was abducted by drug gang, tortured and executed

An believably brave lady, I salute you and may you rest in peace. 

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Maria Santos survived two brutal attacks.  Photo Credit: Photo News 

    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



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. 
 
More @ Mail Online

2 comments:

  1. 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.
    Do 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.....

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    1. I don't understand why she (or someone else) withdrew security?

      That 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.

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