Assaults and kidnappings on the roads

By Margo Glantz

I read a news item that appeared in this newspaper: "Denise thought she was going to die. An armed group assaulted the bus in which she was traveling between Monterrey and Zacatecas, kidnapped the men, abandoned the elderly and raped the women. The nightmare lasted several hours. The kidnapping of trucks is the new reality that covers the country's highways in the face of the complicit silence of the passenger transportation lines. When they got off, twelve men with long guns and dressed as military men in vans forced the passengers and the driver to stand against the truck with their hands raised and legs open".  

"Denise and Hortensia did not know each other, but they were partners in tragedy. The former resisted and was brutally beaten, they smashed part of her face 'Here you are going to learn, whore,' one told her, while he pulled down his pants."