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La Voz De Aztlan News Bulletin
Los Angeles, Alta California ..
September 28, 2004
A Mexican mother, her daughter and another woman were
drowned in the Rio Grande by two agents of the US
Border Patrol on Thursday. The drownings occurred in
the early morning hours near Eagle Pass, Texas when
two agents of the US Border Patrol drove up to the
Texas bank of the Rio Grande and started throwing
rocks at the three women who were struggling to reach
the shore. The agents, according to survivors of the
attack, yelled "expletives" and starting stoning the
women. The three women, too exhausted to turned back,
perished in the deep and fast flowing currents of the
Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) which separates the USA and
Mexico.
According to Mexico's Consul General Jorge Ernesto
Espejel Montes in Eagle Pass, the three women were
from President Vicente Fox's home state of Guanajuato.
The victims were identified as Maria Guadalupe Gomez
Patino, 37; her daughter, Adriana Martinez Gomez, 16;
and Carmen Bustamante Aguirre, 33, all of Cortazar,
Guanajuato. The bodies of the three women were
recovered by Mexican rescue teams near Piedras Negras
on Saturday.
These three new murders of undocumented Mexican immigrants is just another of a growing number this year. Due to the rampant anti-immigrant hysteria in the USA being fanned by anti-Mexican vigilantes, bigots, racists, xenophobes and the Anglo/Jewish media, the number of racial attacks on Mexican immigrants is rising. La Voz de Aztlan has reported on three heinous attacks just this year. The report titled, "Heinous hate murders of undocumented Mexican immigrants on the rise" is published at http://www.aztlan.net/murder_mexican_immigrants_rise.htm
The murders of the three women by drowning has alarmed
the entire Mexican nation. This will have grave
repercussions. It is one of the most cowardly acts by
the US Border Patrol in recent history. In addition,
the Mexican Catholic Church has issued strong
condemnations and has vowed to bring the case before
President Fox and the UN Commission on Human Rights.
The Bishop of the Dioceses of Piedras Negras, Alonso
Garza Treviño, said, "that the murders will not go unpunished."
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