Four Chilean Cops Indicted for Torturing Teen Protester

SANTIAGO – Four Chilean police were charged Monday with violently attacking a 14-year-old boy during a 2014 student demonstration in downtown Santiago.

The four cops were charged with the crime of torturing the student from the National Barros Arana Boarding School when he was taking part in a protest on March 28, 2014.

Prosecutors said the youth was abusively attacked by the police, after first being searched.

When the student opposed the search, he was knocked around by four members of the Carabineros, Chile’s militarized national police – a lieutenant, two sergeants and a corporal.

According to the medical report, the youth suffered injuries to the face, head and neck.

The cops on trial are Lt. Juan Valdivia Cisterna, Sgts. Edgardo Ortega Ahumada and Patricio Alarcon Vasquez, and Cpl. Geraldine Haarmann Ruiz.

The four police are barred from leaving the country and cannot approach the victim, who remains under psychological care “following the brutal attack he suffered at the hands of the police force,” the indictment says.

The World Organization Against Torture said in 2013 that the number of torture and mistreatment cases as part of the criminalization of social protest in Chile “is worrying.”

Link Found between Mexican Mayor’s Killing and Cartel Dispute

MEXICO CITY – The murder of Gisela Mota, mayor of the central Mexican city of Temixco, is linked to a dispute between rival gangs for control of police departments ahead of the implementation of a unified command system, Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez said.

“In the past few weeks, the threats increased” against mayors who supported having their local departments assigned to a unified command under the Morelos state police, the governor told Radio Formula.

The threats were made by the Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos gangs, which have been fighting for control of the state and “are determined to take advantage of this political situation (the start of the terms of several mayors) and again take, like before, control of the police,” Ramirez said.

The disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School students on Sept. 26, 2014, in Iguala, a city in neighboring Guerrero state, has been linked to the gang war.

The official version of events, which has been challenged by relatives of the victims, is that Iguala municipal police officers detained the students and then handed them over to Guerreros Unidos members, who thought they belonged to Los Rojos, murdered them and burned the bodies.

The 33-year-old Mota was gunned down in front of her family last Saturday by hitmen who burst into her house a day after she was sworn in as mayor.

“It’s with the monitoring of the (security) cameras that (the assailants) are spotted trying to get away and they are found around some paths heading toward the Temixco airport, and that’s where the police engaged them” in a shootout, said the governor, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD.

Two of the suspects, one identified as a gang boss with a prior criminal record in Guerrero and Mexico states, were killed, Ramirez said.

“He was a very important hitman in the Los Rojos group and this same cell was the one that dumped a mutilated body in front of the state police offices on Dec. 29 in an act of provocation,” the governor said.

Three suspects have been arrested in the case – a minor, an 18-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman – and more arrests will likely be made, Ramirez said.

Ramirez signed an executive order imposing a unified police command in 15 cities that had been resisting the policy on Sunday.

Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos, has refused to replace its local police department with a unified state command and Mayor Cuauhtemoc Blanco has clashed with the governor over the policy

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Mexican Mayor Killed a Day after Taking Office

MEXICO CITY – The newly installed mayor of the central Mexican city of Temixco was killed Saturday, a day after she took office, officials said.

“They’ve informed me of the attack on the mayor of Temixco, Gisela Mota, a young and dear colleague. This a challenge by organized crime. We won’t give in,” Graco Ramirez – the governor of the central state of Morelos, where Temixco is located – said on Twitter.

Ramirez, like Mota a member of the center-left PRD party, said the suspected perpetrators of the attack – which local media said also left two others dead at the mayor’s home – had already been arrested.

The PRD’s chairman, Agustin Basave, lamented the mayor’s murder, demanded justice and expressed his condolences to the family of the victim.

The politician’s bodyguards requested police assistance after the gunmen opened fire at her home, media reports said, adding that after they caught up to them a shootout ensued that left two of the assailants dead and two others arrested.

Mota was killed a day after the state government launched a public safety operation involving the participation of federal forces.

A study released in 2015 by the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, a non-governmental organization, said Morelos’ capital, Cuernavaca, located just north of Temixco, had replaced Acapulco as Mexico’s most violent city.

Morelos, which borders Mexico City to the south, has the highest violent crime rates among Mexico’s 32 federal entities, the same study showed.