La Paz Mexico Travels: Human rights groups say US, Mexico indifferent to exploitation

Huwebes, Hulyo 30, 2015

Human rights groups say US, Mexico indifferent to exploitation

SHOTLIST
Agua Caliente, San Antonio La Paz, Guatemala – 27 August 2010
1. Exterior of house of family of Gilmar Augusto Morales, one of the Guatemalan migrants killed in Tamaulipas
2. Family watching news footage of the massacre
3. Children of the neighbourhood watching from the porch
4. Set up shot of Carla Cante, wife of Morales, holding his picture
5. Close of picture showing Gilmar Augusto Morales
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carla Cante, wife of slain migrant Gilmar Augusto Morales:
“Yes, he asked me to go with him when we were going out together then after we got married we would stay here a couple of days and then we would leave but I told him no, because I was afraid.”
7. Children on the porch, pan to Mariela Martin, sister of Erlindo Martin, another Guatemalan migrant killed in Tamaulipas
8. Mariela Martin showing pictures of her brother
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariela Martin, sister of Erlindo Martin: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“A ‘coyote’ they met in Mexico asked them for 500 US dollars, or maybe it was 5,000 US dollars, I don’t know, to take them over to California, I think. He called my dad and told him that was what they were asking to take him over (to the United States).”
Outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico – 26 August 2010
10. Wide of train passing
11. Mid of train
12. Wide of migrant near railway
13. Close of his feet walking on railway
14. Wide exterior of “Casa del Migrante,” a shelter for illegal migrants
15. Wide of illegal migrants resting outside house
16. Mid of man with his head covered by baseball cap resting outside shelter
17. Wide interior of bedroom
18. Pan left of migrants resting inside bedroom
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alex Joban, migrant from Central America:
“Yes, I’m afraid because the same can happen to me, any of us as migrants can be subject to the same destiny.”
20. Set up shot of interview with lawyer working at human rights NGO (non-governmental organisation) specialising in migrant issues, Miguel Agustin Pro
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Leopoldo Maldonado, lawyer working for human rights NGO Miguel Agustin Pro:
“For a criminal organisation to be able to kidnap so many people and exterminate them, like they did in San Fernando, it needs the complicity of the authorities.”
FILE: Tamaulipas, Mexico – March 2009
22. Soldiers carrying out raid on house were members of criminal organisation kept more than 50 illegal migrants trying to get money from their relatives living in the United States
23. Various of the migrants on the ground, thanking the soldiers for rescuing them
STORYLINE
Their families pleaded with them not to leave, fearful of the growing danger facing migrants trekking through Mexican territory where brutal drug gangs hold sway.
But the young migrants from across Latin America insisted on going.
They met their fate together, among 72 migrants massacred just 100 miles (160 kilometres) from the US border.
Pieces of the migrants’ lives – and the story of their terrible fate – are slowly emerging as investigators painstakingly work to identify the bodies, which were discovered on Tuesday bound, blindfolded and lying in a row after what appears to be Mexico’s worst drug-cartel massacre.
Among those 72 were three Guatemala relatives, a 17-year-old boy and his two brothers-in-law in their 20s.
The three set off on 9 August from Agua Caliente, a farming village where people with relatives in the US are easy to spot. They are the ones who have used money sent from abroad to replace their adobe homes with modern structures.
Gilmar Augusto Morales, in his mid 20s, left behind his wife, Carla, of over a month who is now two months pregnant.
The initial plan was for them to go together, but at the last minute she got scared.