Mexico: Child kidnappers/killers nabbed

Police in Mexico City have nabbed the kidnappers and killers of the son of a prominent businessman. Local prosecutor Miguel Mancera admitted that the plan to kidnap 14-year-old Fernando Marti involved “complex logistics” and that the gang’s leader used to be a Mexico City detective.

The arrests come on the heels of massive nationwide antiviolence protests throughout Mexico which were inspired by Marti’s death. Over 200,000 protestors demonstrated at Mexico City’s main square recently as part of the “Illuminate Mexico” rallies. Mexico’s World Cup soccer qualifier on Saturday was even used to protest against violence:

Tens of thousands of Mexican soccer fans dressed in white at an international game in the Azteca Stadium on Saturday to protest rising crime and a brutal drug war that has killed more than 2,700 people this year.

At least three-quarters of the 100,000 fans answered a call by Mexico's soccer federation to dress in white. The Mexican team also wore white in the World Cup qualifier against Jamaica rather than its traditional green uniforms.

Image- Time (“A stack of corpses, part of eleven decapitated bodies bearing signs of torture, lie in a suburb of Merida in eastern Mexico.”)

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, Sky News, AP, Guardian UK