Kidnapping in Mexico

Introduction

The country of Mexico, particularly the towns near the northern border and the capital, is undergoing the violent kidnapping epidemic for extortion and ransom that makes it one of the world's most hotspot kidnapping zone. Almost eighty-five percent of the kidnappings all over the globe take place in the Latin-America having the Mexican country accounting for almost 50% of these occurrences. The residents in a number of main cities all through Mexico, for the first time, have organized public protests in opposition to the misdemeanor, which they consider to be uncontrollable (Krusensterna, Pp. 190-195). This paper describes the by and large situation within Mexico, with its spotlight on the cities near the northern border. In addition to his, the paper incorporates the factual data obtained from the Global Rapid Response Center (GRRS) of the city of Mexico.

Discussion and Analysis

Within the United States, kidnapping entails sexual delinquents and estranged parents who kidnap their offspring subsequent to their defeat in a bitter case of child-custody. Within the United States, the commercial kidnappings for financial proceeds are quite infrequent. They are hardly ever successful and are taken quite acutely by the law enforcement agencies. In addition to this, the police in the United States are neither impending participants in the kidnappings, nor the shielding partner in crime for the kidnappers. The case of kidnapping could be completely poles apart in Mexico (ASI Global, Pp. 1-6).

Colombia, in the first half of the year 2005, was overtook by Mexico in reported kidnappings placing itself as the leading country in the world having a total of 194 cases, which when weighed against the 172 kidnapping reported in the same bi-annual duration in Colombia. Additionally, it is a widespread fact that the authorities in Mexico do not get reported about the significant kidnapping percentage that actually takes place. The trend shows that there exist pervasive threats of additional retributions if the authorities are contacted by the family or guardians of the victims. Much portentous is an established mistrust within the law enforcement agencies, especially the police by the citizens that the officials most of the time are the accomplices of the abductors (Krusensterna, Pp. 190-195). It must be distinguished that the genuine figures of kidnappings that do not get reported are approximated as being almost ten-times the incidents that get reported with projected abduction in Mexico topping at four-thousand in the year 2006. In a country like Mexico, kidnapping is a crime that is highly organized, subsequent merely to the all-encompassing drug trade, and is perceived as a growing business. On average, kidnappings happen after every 6 hours and some executors within such booming billion-dollar commerce are ever arrested. Lately, novel techniques within 'cross-border', 'express' and 'virtual' kidnapping have surfaced. These novel techniques would be explained below (GRR, Pp. 1-7).

A couple of the, for the most part, active Mexican areas are the numerous main cities near the northern border and the country's capital that are abode to all-encompassing drug cartels and manufacturing plants. For instance, the ...