On April 4, 2008, the head of INM, Cecilia Romero, along with the secretary of the interior, Juan Camilo Mouriño,2 received a forty-page document titled “Kidnappings and Organized Crime.” The document contained a detailed account of what was occurring nationwide, along with three personal testimonies of victims. It was sent out by Leticia Gutiérrez, director of the Pastoral Dimension of Human Mobility, a Catholic organization that runs thirty-five migrant shelters across the country, including in the cities of Tierra Blanca, Coatzacoalcos, and Reynosa. But neither Romero nor Mouriño ever
...more
