Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Ferrosur And Kansas City Group Operators Of "La Bestia" Freight Train Operators Facing Lawsuit From Veracruz State

Governor Duarte de Ochoa wants both Ferrosur and Kansas City Group to be held accountable and to take responsibility for the extortions and deaths of countless undocumented South and Central Americans allowed to board La Bestia (Beast) freight train on their way to the U.S. border.

By H. Nelson Goodson
April 1, 2014

Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico - On Monday,  Javier Duarte de Ochoa, Governor of Veracruz announced that a lawsuit complaint will be filed with the Mexico federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) to hold both the Ferrosur and the Kansas City Group accountable and to take responsibility for the countless deaths and extortions that undocumented immigrants from South and Central America are subjected too when they board La Bestia (Beast) freight train on their way to the U.S. border. Governor Duarte de Ochoa blames both freight train operators for allowing undocumented immigrants board and travel in La Bestia where they become victims of extortions, kidnappings, are pushed off the train as it is moving for not paying a quota of $100 to $300 dollars and multiple deaths as a result of organized criminal organizations and gangs operating along the train route collecting quotas.
The quota collection by criminal groups, gangs like los Zetas, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and corrupt Mexican immigration agents, including Federal Police and local police has become a multi-million operation. 
Luis Ángel Bravo Contreras, the Veracruz State Attorney General also said on Monday, he will file a lawsuit complaint against both Ferrosur and the Kansas City Group for allowing undocumented immigrants ride their freight train La Bestia and not taking responsibility for the crimes that occur along the train route.
More than 70,000 of undocumented immigrants from South and Central America travel through Mexico on their way to the U.S. border, which become easy targets for extortion, kidnappings, forced prostitution and illegal organ harvesting.
Duarte's administration has been criticized for its inability to properly investigate homicides, brutal beatings and extortions of victimized immigrants has led to an increase of crimes targeted at the undocumented immigrants in Veracruz.
Rubén Figueroa, the spokesman for Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano told El Proceso dot com, that Duarte's administration lack of prosecution of crimes perpetrated against undocumented immigrants by criminal organizations and gangs has led to an increase of crime against immigrants traveling through the state of Veracruz. Duarte de Ochoa now wants to stop the freedom to travel through Veracruz by undocumented immigrants,  according to Figueroa.
The PGR says, it will investigate any crime reported along La Bestia route. But Figueroa and La 72 Immigrant Refuge Shelter operated by Franciscan Priest Tomás González Castillo in Tenosique, Tabasco have filed countless complaints with state officials and federal officials about crimes against immigrants and have yield few, if any convictions. In some cases, the suspects are released without impunity by government officials. 

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