Case Files: Testimonies of Rape by Police in the Aftermath of Atenco
by Al Giordano
As Mexican Politicians (Guided by U.S. Advisors) Deny the Evidence, Each Woman’s Story Corroborates the Next
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in San Salvador Atenco
Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderón – of president Vicente Fox’s National Action Party (PAN, in its Spanish initials) – told reporters last weekend that he doesn’t believe the reports that police raped and sexually abused women detained May 3 and 4 in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco.
The candidate – who is advised by two gringo political consultants, Dick Morris and Rob Allyn, on how to handle questions from the press – said that an accusation of rape, “is so delicate that it requires clear elements of proof.” Calderón went so far as to accuse Fox’s own National Commissioner of Human Rights, José Soberanes, who furnished hard evidence of at least 23 rapes of Mexican women while under arrest, of “speaking badly against the country and I totally rebuke him.”
Calderón was joined in this politics-of-denial by the police commissioner of the State of Mexico (and former national police director) Wilfrido Robledo Madrid, the man who personally supervised the violent police raids of early May. Robledo – intellectual author of the crime – told the daily Milenio on May 15:
“As of today we don’t have any reports from anyone who says she was raped… If we had the name of somebody who was raped, we would begin the investigation. But up to now we don’t have any. I put the prosecutor’s office at the disposition of everyone arrested, and until now, as far as I know, nobody has been interviewed who has been raped…. They should present themselves! Why haven’t they presented themselves? Why don’t they go to the prosecutor?... Ten days have already passed and I don’t know of a single woman raped.”
Asked by the Milenio reporters about statements by Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos that various police rapists used condoms while raping the women, suggesting premeditation in the crimes, Robledo exclaimed:
“That makes me laugh!”
...
As Mexican Politicians (Guided by U.S. Advisors) Deny the Evidence, Each Woman’s Story Corroborates the Next
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in San Salvador Atenco
Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderón – of president Vicente Fox’s National Action Party (PAN, in its Spanish initials) – told reporters last weekend that he doesn’t believe the reports that police raped and sexually abused women detained May 3 and 4 in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco.
The candidate – who is advised by two gringo political consultants, Dick Morris and Rob Allyn, on how to handle questions from the press – said that an accusation of rape, “is so delicate that it requires clear elements of proof.” Calderón went so far as to accuse Fox’s own National Commissioner of Human Rights, José Soberanes, who furnished hard evidence of at least 23 rapes of Mexican women while under arrest, of “speaking badly against the country and I totally rebuke him.”
Calderón was joined in this politics-of-denial by the police commissioner of the State of Mexico (and former national police director) Wilfrido Robledo Madrid, the man who personally supervised the violent police raids of early May. Robledo – intellectual author of the crime – told the daily Milenio on May 15:
“As of today we don’t have any reports from anyone who says she was raped… If we had the name of somebody who was raped, we would begin the investigation. But up to now we don’t have any. I put the prosecutor’s office at the disposition of everyone arrested, and until now, as far as I know, nobody has been interviewed who has been raped…. They should present themselves! Why haven’t they presented themselves? Why don’t they go to the prosecutor?... Ten days have already passed and I don’t know of a single woman raped.”
Asked by the Milenio reporters about statements by Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos that various police rapists used condoms while raping the women, suggesting premeditation in the crimes, Robledo exclaimed:
“That makes me laugh!”
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
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