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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Juárez Valley, The Place Where No One Is Looking for 116 Missing Persons

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

El Valle is an area made up of Ciudad Juárez and the municipalities of Praxedis G. Guerrero and Guadalupe; at least 116 people are currently being sought in this place

MISSING IN JUAREZ

The dispute for the control of human and drug trafficking in the Juarez Valley keeps migrants seeking to cross into the United States at constant risk. This valley includes part of Ciudad Juarez, as well as the municipalities of Praxedis G. Guerrero and Guadalupe. At least 116 people are currently being sought in this Bermuda Triangle.

Israel Chávez Lozano and José Luis Lozano Mendoza disappeared in El Valle and Laura has recurring dreams of her son and brother: she sees them enter her house, walk to the kitchen and sit at the table. She hears them asking for food. She sees them hungry, dirty and tired, returning from work like any other day.

According to a report by Marco Antonio Lopez, published in La Verdad, since 2010, the remains of more than 280 people have been found in El Valle that have not been identified; at least 62 clandestine graves have also been discovered.

"Most cases of disappearance in El Valle are perpetrated by organized crime groups. These are people who seek to reach the United States and somehow do not pay these organized crime groups so that they can access the United States through these routes and are disappeared," says Carla Palacios, general coordinator of the Paso del Norte Human Rights Center.

Despite the number of reports of disappearances in this territory, there are only two open investigation files, both in this municipality, located some 50 kilometers east of Ciudad Juarez.

Faced with this panorama, the municipal president of Guadalupe, Fausto González Pérez, says he has no knowledge of human or drug trafficking in his town; while the mayor of Praxedis, Celestino Estrada Villanueva, assures that he is unaware of the issue of disappearances. However, both agree that the two communities are stigmatized by the media.

THE TRIANGLE OF DISAPPEARANCES

On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, Laura punctually finished her commute as a school transport driver at 7:30 in the morning. Then she stopped by for her son Israel. It was cold. The low temperatures led the municipal government to set up shelters in various parts of the city as a refuge. However, that day it remained a little above average for those days: 5 degrees Celsius in the morning.

In spite of that, Israel put on a pair of blue pants under his black jeans, a blue polo shirt with two lines on the chest, one blue and one red, three sweatshirts on top, and over the sweatshirts a blue jacket with four large bags on the front. He put on his gray bootie tennis shoes and left his house to get on the bus with his mother.

They arrived at uncle José Luis' house, in the Ampliación de San Isidro neighborhood, at around 8:00 in the morning. Laura remembers that Israel had an uncomfortable feeling that made him hesitate. She told him that he didn't have to leave. But he had already made the decision: to leave Ciudad Juarez to cross into the United States.

Israel was 29 years old at the time and fully aware that he had to leave Juarez to achieve better living conditions.

He left his last job in a supermarket after state agents "picked him up" leaving his workday, took his money, his cell phone and his belongings, and left him beaten in a place far from his home.

Laura accompanied her son to José Luis' house until 11:00 a.m. when he was supposed to take his second trip in his school bus. She gave him some money, asked him to call her as soon as he was in the United States, said goodbye and left.

At 12:40 p.m. Maricela Chacón heard her husband José Luis Lozano being yelled at to come out. Juan de Dios Robles Martinez has been a friend of Jose Luis for about 15 years, he is known as "El Cholo" and at that time it had been a month since he had been deported from the United States.

Juan de Dios was familiar with the dirt roads and the route that has to be taken through El Valle to cross the border into the United States through the municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero. He had crossed several times.

That is why he offered José Luis to take him and get him a job without charging him anything, just for being his friend. That is why he told his nephew Israel. That is why Juan de Dios was shouting outside José Luis's house that November 13.

They got into Juan de Dios' relative's black Cherokee, with three other people in it, and headed for Plaza Zaragoza, where they would wait for the only public transportation bus that goes to El Valle, which passes through that area of the city between 1:00 and 1:30 in the afternoon.

The other three people who were in the truck and paid Juan de Dios to cross them, their identities are unknown. There is talk of a family, a man, a woman and their minor daughter. But no one filed a complaint about them, no one is looking for them.

A group of six people take the only public transportation truck that enters the Valley, with the intention of crossing into the United States. They take Federal Highway 2, Juarez-El Porvenir, a route about 70 kilometers long. And they are never seen again.

"My son didn't answer my messages anymore. He would talk to my brother and send me to the mailbox, so we no longer had any communication with anyone. I don't know what would happen, how far they would go. They told us that they had been taken off the truck, but we don't know if it was as far as La Esperanza, in Praxedis, we don't know exactly where they were taken off the truck," says Laura Irene Lozano, who has been looking for her son Israel Chávez Lozano and his brother José Luis Lozano Mendoza since November 13, 2019.



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15 comments:

  1. Isnt this the area some guys claim CDS has a big precense or control?

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    1. Are you Valle local?

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    2. 7:20 who are you asking?

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    3. @6:46am replied “nope” so I asked him if he was a local here en el Valle, I’m from the municipal of San Isidro and ever since war started with Juarez and Sinaloa El Valle has stayed Sinaloa to this point and yes it was once controlled by Juarez but el Valle was one of the first area’s Sinaloa hit first people must be naive to say it’s not from the municipal of Sauzal to El Porve it is still controlled by Sinaloa

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    4. Was that back in 2008 when they started in el valle??

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    5. Everywhere CDS is present many many many people will disappear!
      Did I mention that many many many people will disappear?

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    6. Ever since El Rikin was caught El Valle has been CDs controlled

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    7. @12.05. Yes you did. Is that you But But But dude? Changing it up to Many Many Many?

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  2. Faced with this panorama, the municipal president of Guadalupe, Fausto González Pérez, says he has no knowledge of human or drug trafficking in his town; while the mayor of Praxedis, Celestino Estrada Villanueva, assures that he is unaware of the issue of disappearances. However, both agree that the two communities are stigmatized by the media.
    Thats when you know its time to go after those 2 and their families.

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  3. Off subject kinda but through out most of my long, long life November 13th has been extremely unlucky/downright bad for me… and now I am noticing other events bad on this day. Weird.

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  4. All I can say Is do it Legally if u want to come to USA you can avoid all the dying and getting beat up and have money still. try it. Fill out paperwork and wait. Save the heartache I'll even sponsor you if u do it the right way.

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    1. Paperwork filled out or not the U.S. prioritizes/expresses Visas to foreigners that have college degrees and such. These same people with college degrees have often times no real reason to leave Mexico or any other country in the first place given that with a college degree they obviously can afford to live in safer areas of the cities they reside in or the country itself.
      Second many many of the poorer people of Mexico cannot afford to continue school beyond middle school which is the extent the country offers free schooling for its residents.
      This then means that they cannot afford colleges and have to live in the less safe areas of the cities and towns they live in.
      This in turn makes them less able to be offered residency in the U.S. legally. This plus the cost to go about it while living in crime infested neighborhoods makes it the reason why many people would rather risk everything and come into the US illegally.

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    2. Fill out paperwork and wait? For 3 years, while your 4 and 6 year olds are taken from you? You have no idea what you are talking about. You think they WANT to take those fucking risks? You think they don't know the gamble? The fact they take it anyway, with children, should tell you something. But your anonymous pledge is heartwarming.

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  5. Valle de Juarez is CDS. Dangerous even for locals.

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