The Death Valley of Mexico(Video Script).

  

The real death valley: story about mexican mass graves 

The video you’re about to see is not like some normal videos.This video is important because I’m about to tell you a story. It’ll take a few minutes from your time but leave a long lasting impact.  This is about a country which may seem normal like any other country but it’s one of the most dangerous countries in the world. It is also known as the death valley. The Cities of Mexico look like any other normal cities. But an average of 5-6 people daily are found dead in mass graves  and missing in the city. how it all started, for how long they are digging there, what is the role of authorities and what’s the future there. To know about this we’ve to go back in history. The mexian bootleggers started supplying alcohol to the US gangsters at the the duration of US drug prohibition period in early 1930s  when the prohibition came to an end in 1933 the illegal drug trade started and by 1960s the smugglers started to smuggle drugs in larger scale. 

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Columbias Pablo Escobar was the main exporter and dealt with organized crimes all over the world. While Escobar's medellin and cali cartel was the manufacturer of the products and Miguel Angel Felix was responsible for overseas distribution. By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-established and reliable transporters of colombian cocaine. 

The violence was escalated In 1988 when the founder of mexian drug cartel Miguel Angel felix gallardo  was arrested Due to his arrest, the alliance broke and certain high-ranking members formed their own cartels and each of them fought for control of territory and trafficking routes. 

In the year 2000 Vicente Fox, from the right-wing PAN party, became the first Mexican president not to be from the PRI party, the institutional revolutionary party that ruled Mexico for 70 year his presidency passed with relative peace, but the crime index wasn’t different from the previous administrations. It was increasing day by day. 

In December 2006, more than 100 thousand people died when the government launched a crackdown of 6500 mexian army soldiers against the cartel to end the drug violence. This was the first major action that was made against cartel violence and it’s generally viewed as the starting of mexican drug war between the government and drug cartels. Since then it’s an ongoing tension between maxican government and cartels. It’s been a decade, Despite the significance of mass graves to so many, their multiple dimensions have not received comprehensive human rights attention. Torture, enforced disappearances extrajudicial killing, drugs related violence and organised crimes besides this The criminal justice system routinely fails to provide justice to victims of violent crimes and human rights violations, despite a 2013 law intended to ensure them justice, protection, and reparations.In a 2018 report, the special rapporteur on human rights defenders declared that about 98 percent of crimes committed in Mexico remained unsolved.Mexico is Latin America's most dangerous country. Many of these crimes go unpunished. According to the CNDH national human right commission mexico , only one out of every ten crimes is reported in Mexico; this is due to lack of trust from citizens to the authorities. Furthermore, only one out of 100 reported crimes actually goes to sentencing; this gives us an idea how much mexican people trust the authorities. Until 2006 More than 3,000 unmarked graves were found with approximately 288,000 bodies and a huge number of 40,000 people are still missing. Due to lack of staff people are finding the graves of their loved ones by themselves. As 2020 neared an end, the count of people reported missing in Mexico had grown to more than 79,000.

As the clock is ticking, new names are continuously added to the list and administrations are failing to stop it. 

Despite the confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the crime still has not stopped in Mexico, it is increasing as the day passes.But with so much impunity, so much institutional weakness, Mexico could be digging up bodies for decades.