Can you disappear in mexico

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Today, Los Zetas is one of the largest organized criminal networks, specializing in trafficking of humans, drugs, organs, of kidnapping, and extortion.

They are especially notorious for killing Central American migrants attempting to cross Mexico en route to the U.

Like other government agents, Los Zetas applied their training by security forces to the needs of organized criminal networks. At the end of the day, impunity is what has nurtured the longevity of disappearing as a strategy for dealing with internal enemies, be they of cartels or the government, though we cannot easily distinguish between the two.

Agents in both legal and extra-legal worlds will continue to disappear their enemies because of an ineffectual judiciary, corrupt political system, and compromised security apparatus.

The prevalence of disappearances stands as a testament to Mexico as a captured state, where organized criminal networks have hijacked government institutions and where officially-sanctioned practices that emerged out of the s become routine. The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship.

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The following day, I saw a man working transit, a sign on his motorcycle reading no se acceptan morditas -- "we don't accept bribes. More months passed, with me continuing online work, and I fell into a slump -- what they call "expat depression. If my plan was to sneak back across the border, I was thinking a President Trump probably wasn't going to make that easier. It was time to execute the second, much less realistic part of my plan.

With my fake ID, it's entirely possible I could have walked right up to the official border crossing. I was, after all, a citizen, and what's suspicious about a citizen trying to get back home? But what if they sensed something was wrong and ran the ID? I couldn't risk it. It had to be a "non-official" crossing. Through a mutual friend, I met a guide who assisted people with this sort of thing.

We met up in a bar. I had a heavy backpack filled with my laptops, clothes, my entire life. His was filled with rope. For reference, here's what the border crossing looks like -- this is from the American El Paso side, but you get the idea:. Then, once you're up, you jump down on the fence blocking the pedestrian sidewalk.

On the count of three, you jump over the wire sensors for jumpers, and then you're good. Border patrol agents were parked overlooking the bridge, so we waited five hours for a train to roll by and block their view. In broad daylight, as hundreds of people walked by me every minute, I put a rope around my chest and stood on my guy's shoulders, climbing a light pole. Of course they had. I jumped off the other side. I babbled something about dropping my girlfriend at the bus stop, and that I was running because I was already late for a meeting.

I offered him my real ID, because I wasn't about to get hemmed up on counterfeit ID and, who knows, possible terrorism charges. My heart sinking, I gave one last-ditch effort. I said, "For Pete's sake, I was born in , which is where I graduated high school! Do you believe I'm not a citizen? I fought in the Army, for God's sake! A supervisor rolled up. I tapped on my phone and claimed to be recording what was going on. After a bit, the supervisor looked me up and down and said the words I longed to hear: "You're free to go.

I'm sorry. Did you not hear the sirens? That was for me. Apparently , I look Mexican. Right now, I'm in the U. I still live hand-to-mouth, picking up odd jobs here and there. I hang out and drink in the immigrant areas of town. I'm affectionately called Gringo Mojado basically, "white illegal immigrant" by those who know that part of my story. Finding a place to stay was as easy as having bucks in hand and wandering near a kitchen at a local restaurant.

A quick Hola and a question of "Who has a room to rent? No other questions asked. If any of this tale makes me sound like a criminal genius, I have to admit that part of my success so far was nothing but the system's indifference. I was using my own bank account when I was on the run, after my "suicide. I even used my own debit card though with better planning, I would have picked an account that didn't have a six-dollar international ATM charge. I thought I was the criminal.

This spring, I even filed my taxes, under my real name. Months had passed since that bank robbery madness, I'd become less optimistic about being invulnerable, and figured I didn't want one more charge on me for tax evasion. But no one pursued those leads, apparently. Nor did they investigate the last people I was seen with on the night of my disappearance -- both of whom had the number for one of my burner phones. Maybe they didn't care, or maybe they realized that in most cases, they can simply sit tight and wait for the fugitive to pop up again.

How many people can permanently scrap everything they love -- their family, friends, career, hometown -- at a moment's notice? My original plan to reunite with my family and somehow make it work was ridiculous in retrospect. Oh yeah, about that. I tried calling my wife once I was back in the country. She'd changed her number. She didn't reply to my emails.