In what is becoming yet another story of a tragedy foretold, the mother of two U.S. military veterans is hoping against hope that the two bodies – one mutilated and both with a single gunshot to the head – are not those of her two sons.
Maria de Jesus Garcia said her sons Ernesto and Jesus Garcia, of Brownsville, disappeared in Matamoros more than two weeks ago, on Feb.2, and pleaded with top U.S. officials to step in.
Garcia said her boys spent years fighting for the United States.
“They are veterans. … I want to ask the president to send in reinforcements to search for them in Matamoros,” Garcia told a local television station.
She said Mexican authorities have been of little help.
“Nobody gives me any information … not at the jail, not with the soldiers, not with the marines, not in the hospitals,” Garcia said.
Garcia’s sons are veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They traveled to Matamoros to visit their grandmother and bring her cash.
Garcia’s sons are veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They traveled to Matamoros to visit their grandmother and bring her cash.
Ernesto's wife, Cecilia Garcia, said the men may have made a bad decision to return to Mexico at night. They left when there was an attack in the colonia,” the mother said.
The recurring experience of U.S. residents who travel to Matamoros and northern Mexico of finding their relatives killed and dumped on some lonely back road or sometime sin the middle of a colonia has prompted U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela to urge Mexican officials to step in and put an end to the bloodshed.
Whether that will do any good is anyone's guess.
A count of the missing U.S. residents in northern Mexico has climbed to 85 or more, sources says.
The last communication Ernesto Garcia had with his wife was through text. He wrote to her at 1:30 a.m. on Monday and said “Hi.” He also sent his teenage son two text messages at the same time which said, “Hello my son. I love you."
Both brothers' cell phone no longer have power.
"It's a lot of mental anguish. I just want him to be back with us. That's the only thing I want. … We need to fight and work to get them home. They are two ex-soldiers that fought for a country and freedom for many years. My husband served 16 years,” said the wife.
The last communication Ernesto Garcia had with his wife was through text. He wrote to her at 1:30 a.m. on Monday and said “Hi.” He also sent his teenage son two text messages at the same time which said, “Hello my son. I love you."
Both brothers' cell phone no longer have power.
"It's a lot of mental anguish. I just want him to be back with us. That's the only thing I want. … We need to fight and work to get them home. They are two ex-soldiers that fought for a country and freedom for many years. My husband served 16 years,” said the wife.
Police said the men were driving a 2009 Nissan Altima (above). It is charcoal in color with paper plates. Jesus and his wife had just purchased it. Police said there is no record of the car crossing back into the United States.
Then discovery of the men's car and the bodies comes as violence escalates up and down the Rio Grande. This morning, there were accounts in Mexican social media that bodies were strewn across el ejido Lucio Blanco, across the river from Los Tomates Bridge as gunfights escalated. At El Control, up river from Matamoros, residents say they had to crawl under their beds to avoid getting caught by crossfire from warring armed factions.
Then discovery of the men's car and the bodies comes as violence escalates up and down the Rio Grande. This morning, there were accounts in Mexican social media that bodies were strewn across el ejido Lucio Blanco, across the river from Los Tomates Bridge as gunfights escalated. At El Control, up river from Matamoros, residents say they had to crawl under their beds to avoid getting caught by crossfire from warring armed factions.
10 comments:
I am sorry those two Vets bought the farm, I truly am. However folks with a functioning brain should no better than to go across that river. There is no good meal, cheap prescription drugs, piece of ass or abrazo from a family member than is worth the risk.
It is easy for you yo say...but we are humans with good hearts that love our family members... this is not our war we should be able to visit our loved ones. ..... plus it's "know"..not no.....bottom line, it is time to send troops over and clean house... please president. .. please government. .. how much more slaps in the face are you going to take.... people say you don't go in to bleak up of to help the inocent victims because you see no profit for you..
Well just confiscate the money you find when you clean up and that's you will see its way more than what you got from Sadam or Panama or Colombia. .. it is time.. 16 yr vet... his brother also a vet... the other marine killed recently... come on don't be cowards. .go help....
Here is a mother that wanted the US President to put boots on the ground to save her sons, because local authorities, who we should expect to have lots of contacts in Mexico, have failed them. As long as Tony Martinez and Sheriff Omar Lucio fail to use their offices to facilitate actions to help American families, then there is little hope. Tony Martinez tries to say there is no reason to worry...well Tony, what do you have to say to this mother. No doubt Tony has nothing to say to the simple folk....just to his United Brownsville "elite".
So long as it's MEXICANS, no one gives a shit!
could this be the two guys
http://www.valorportamaulipas.info/2015/02/matamoros-hallan-en-hieleras-2.html?m=1
Anon 352.....are you serious? The cartels run business in Mexico....even if our officials did have good contacts with their counterparts....those "officials" answer to the cartel (s).....or are you proposing that the Sheriff, Mayor or Police Dept have contacts within the cartels? Don't lie to yourself, bud.....it is just the reality of things.
if you read other blogs
just google it
these two veterans have ties to illicit activity
on the south side.
When you leave the boundaries of the United States and go into another country, there you are for good or bad. You get all the blessings and curses that go with being there. The United States government has no power nor authority to do anything in Mexico other than as the Mexican authorities to do their job...please.
You take all the risk of going there and the US government is not sending police, troops or anybody to rescue your ass. So, don't go to Mexico unless you are willing to die there all alone except for your killers.
If you take your "good hearts" over there to hug up with your families, realize you just might get those good hearts shot full of hole and don't blame the United States government for it. You put yourself in that situation and your blood is on your own head.
People who take the risk to go visit their loved ones should at least have the support and back up from us as citizens our this great country. No one, no cartel drug dealing s.o.b. should be able to decapitate citizens of the USA with no consequences. I'm sorry to hear people say it's their fault for going over at their own risk... That since they go visit grandparents they should accept their good hearts pumped with lead. You probably don't even visit your own mother even though you live in her own backyard and pay no rent. Gutless, if we don't defend our citizens. You [3:45] will send your kids to a park and as they return with bloody lip, broken nose at the hands of a bully, cowardly say, "you went there at your own risk". They are punking us and slapping us on our face and we are not doing what we should. We should say no more. They should know there are consequences for killing US citizens. We do not lose our citizenship if we cross the river. It's bull that people think that a United States citizen is free game at hands of these animals for simple reason of crossing a stupid border. The government should do more to protect and proof a point that no one will be allowed to kill us at will.
It is a hundred times cheaper, safer and things are alot easier......IF YOU JUST DON'T GO! This great nation of ours is already taking on the financial burden brought on by illegal immigrants......now we should have every visiting American in Mexico escorted around by US troops? If you are told that fire will burn you, must you be supplied with a baby sitter so that you don't put your hand in the fire and get burned?
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