Santiago Meza Lopez put the bodies of the people he captured in acid so they would dissolve and be disappeared forever. The 300 people he did this to were all primarily against the narcotic industry in Mexico and posed some sort of opposition. Ciudad Juarez is teeming with violence all surrounding the drug cartels, but also harming innocent people not related to the drug industry at all. There have been countless news stories lately about the increasing violence in Mexico and around the border, but no one has connected it to our country and what role we play in it.
The violence is happening because there's money involved. A lot of money for an impoverished country with millions of desperate people. Where does the money eventually come from, or rather, who's buying the drugs at the last stop? I'm sure they're going across seas and to Canada, but there are also plenty of Americans fueling the violence with their dollars. This connection seems so obvious to me, but so many of my peers seem to have no problem with their habit.
Kidnapping for ransom and other atrocious crimes against totally innocent people is probably one of the best reasons to boycott a product, especially one as destructive and unnecessary as this one.
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