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“THE 43 MURDERED MEXICAN STUDENTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H8075 on Nov. 19, 2014.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
THE 43 MURDERED MEXICAN STUDENTS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Vela) for 5 minutes.
Mr. VELA. Madam Speaker, I rise to bring attention to the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.
Edmund Burke said:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
On September 26, students from a teacher training college visited Iguala, Mexico, to participate in a protest. According to media reports, the students were arrested by police forces and handed over to a criminal gang. Their burned bodies have reportedly been found discarded in a river.
As The Washington Post reported yesterday:
The demand to find the students and punish those responsible for their disappearance has broadened into a more diverse fury about corrupt politicians and their drug-trafficking cronies.
Mexican prosecutors have formally charged former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca in the disappearance of the students. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. In the last several months, three constituent families of mine have been touched by murder in northern Mexico.
I again call on the United States State Department to ensure that the Mexican Government thoroughly investigates these atrocities and that those responsible be brought to justice and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The crises of human smuggling, drug smuggling, and illegal migration do not begin or end at the border. Resolving these matters requires that we address issues of economic development and cartel violence in Mexico and that we address the demand for narcotics in the United States, along with eliminating the presence of cartels in an estimated 1,000 U.S. cities.
The leaders of the State Department in Washington, D.C., need to understand that this is one of the most pressing foreign policy issues confronting our Nation. Otherwise, evil will indeed triumph.
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