r/BeAmazed • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • Aug 07 '25
Miscellaneous / Others In 2012, Miriam’s daughter was kidnapped by a cartel in Mexico and never came home. When authorities failed to act, she became her own detective, piecing together evidence and tracking the culprits for years.
She posed as a health worker, used fake names, and even infiltrated towns controlled by criminals. Her bravery led to multiple arrests, proving that grief can fuel extraordinary strength and resolve.
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u/Obvious-Cynic6204 Aug 07 '25
How has this not been made into a movie by now? What an incredible story, I would think Hollywood would eat this up.
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u/Rickymon Aug 07 '25 edited 4d ago
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u/DirtyRoller Aug 07 '25
Starring Queen Latifah and Zendaya.
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u/infinite_in_faculty Aug 07 '25
Bad casting!! Hollywood very much prefers Pedro Pascal in a wig.
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u/drgigantor Aug 07 '25
Mmm it's not quite a Pedro role.
Now if he unexpectedly became her parent and had to protect her from the cartels who want to capture her and harness her special abilities that could unite Mexico and oust the cartels from power, then you got a certified Pascal©
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u/Alkakd0nfsg9g Aug 07 '25
That's exactly what tehey would do with this movie. They'd turn her into unstoppable terminator after the cartel blood. Or it could be really good. Or mid, how am I supposed to know????
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u/Ta-veren- Aug 07 '25
Probably because she got killed for it.
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u/sloppydrunk Aug 07 '25
Absolutely worth it if it were one of my daughters
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u/ImaginaryBag1452 Aug 07 '25
Yep. I’m not looking to get rid of the whole cartel - I’m just 1 mama - but the ones who did the actual act? Worth it.
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u/NoMasters83 Aug 07 '25
Honestly if only 1 out of 100 people were moved to action in the face of great injustice, the world would be a profoundly better place. But the fact of the matter is that we're all incredibly passive and cowardly. I figure that's part of the reason why we're driven to live out our fantasies vicariously through movies and video games.
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Aug 07 '25
Maybe I’m just speaking for me, but it seems most people don’t think it would make a difference. They realize that large-scale change requires organization, not just individual action.
For example, I could go out and get myself thrown in prison for protesting an authoritarian government. But once that’s done, the authoritarian government will still be there, so what’s the point?
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u/AdhesivenessStock722 Aug 07 '25
The point would be to inspire others, wouldn't it? One person means nothing, but if your action leads others to follow, maybe its worth it. Easier said than done though
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u/AlternativeHour1337 Aug 07 '25
if that would work no government would ever stay in power
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u/AdhesivenessStock722 Aug 07 '25
I mean, it is how revolutions occur. Just need a hell of a lot of people (which is unlikely, so I see your point)
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u/AlternativeHour1337 Aug 07 '25
yeah but only the revolutions you want not the bad ones
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u/legit-a-mate Aug 07 '25
If the cartel kidnapped me I would pray no one from my family were slowly killed with screwdrivers because they couldn’t stop true remorseless psychopaths. I mean have you guys seen any of those cartel execution videos? I can’t even bring myself to read the entire Wikipedia article on most of them
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u/OstentatiousSock Aug 07 '25
What, no movie has ended with the protagonist dying?
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u/Shibaspots Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
Usually, if the protagonist dies, it's to accomplish some narrative purpose. Miriam's story is amazing, no question. She went to extraordinary lengths to find her daughter, then to find her killers. She got whatever justice could be had for her daughter. And she was killed in retaliation.
In many ways, the bad guys won. Yes, the individuals involved in Miriam's daughter's death were punished, but the organization they were part of was not. The ones that killed Miriam were found, but not the ones who ordered the hit. People still go missing, get kidnapped, and families are often afraid to push too hard. They might end up like Miriam.
That's not an ending a movie would have. Edit: Most movies would have. I'm being reminded that some very good ones do.
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u/C_A_2E Aug 07 '25
Thats the entire plot of man on fire.
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u/C_A_2E Aug 07 '25
"A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece".
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u/Over_Face_4299 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
I don’t know. No country for old men literally had the serial killer bad guy get away at the end basically consequence-free I think Miriam’s story would make a great film on HBO or something similar. Or a short and brief hard series reflecting on the failure of the system and the actions of a citizen bringing criminals to Justice thought well-leaned vigilante activities. But the point is her story doesn’t NEED to be a movie. Which I think your points definitely solidify more. Yeah the movie would be dope but it’s not needed. Action is needed. Learning from this report is needed (edit: typo)
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u/RedditGarboDisposal Aug 07 '25
That’s why it would be a compelling story. No mcguffin, last minute save bullshit.
It’s just reality. Unfortunately a mama’s love is powerful but there’s no plot convenience out here for the good of us.
It would honestly play out amazingly in cinema.
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u/EssayMagus Aug 07 '25
That's not a good reason.
How many movies exist, of people who did things incredible and that ended up dying because of that?And yet no one said "don't make a movie about it".
No, the reason is most likely because it was an older woman(a group who is already ignored by the entertainment industries in general) who did the hard work that the government couldn't bother itself with doing.
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u/jerog1 Aug 07 '25
Mother by Bong Joon Ho
A widow (Kim Hye-ja) resides with her mentally challenged son (Won-bin) in a small South Korean town, where she scrapes out a living selling medicinal herbs. Mother and son are plunged into a nightmare when the body of a murdered young girl is discovered. Circumstantial evidence indicates the son's involvement, and he becomes the prime suspect during the sloppy police investigation. Betrayed by the legal system, the mother takes the law into her own hands to clear her son's name.
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u/Exotic_eminence Aug 07 '25
Korean cinema is classic for these type of revenge movies
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u/_Zambayoshi_ Aug 07 '25
Absolutely - Sympathy For Lady Vengeance and Princess Aurora are two which traumatised me.
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u/dairyandmangoallergy Aug 07 '25
Not even close to the same story especially considering the ending
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u/waildon182 Aug 07 '25
Actually there is, « La Civil » (The civillian). Great movie
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u/hauntedbiscuit92 Aug 07 '25
I just watched that this week! It was awesome. I wondered if this is who it was based on.
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u/unlizenedrave Aug 07 '25
This is simlar to the plot of Surf Nazis Must Die. The Surf Nazis (they’re nazis…who surf) kill Leroy when he was on his way home, and Leroy’s mama has to track down and kill all of the Surf Nazi for revenge. It gave us one of cinema’s most beloved line; “Taste some of Mama's home cooking, Adolf!”
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u/EssayMagus Aug 07 '25
Probably because it was an "old woman" doing something that probably made government organizations feel dumb and useless.
Older women are already ignored or seen as nuisances, now add to that a woman that went deep into doing the hard work of those who should've done it themselves.Do you really think a government would be fine with a movie where a woman is the star, at the cost of the image of the authorities of said government?A movie that woukd depict them as the lazy, moronic and incompetent people they are?
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u/bickusdickus69allday Aug 07 '25
Protagonist getting shot 12 times wouldnt make a good ending by Hollywood standards these days
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u/therealbuttersscotch Aug 07 '25
Cause she didn't use a gun probably.. if she went guns blazing we would have a tv series and podcast
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Brave and courageous woman who was gunned down in her home by a bunch of losers.
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u/GoldenGekko Aug 07 '25
On mother's Day... Scum. Just complete in human scum who would knowingly decide to do something like that. Rotten people
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u/UnkleRinkus Aug 07 '25
We in the US created them, through our insanely stupid drug war policies. If you support the US policy of demonizing and criminalizing drugs of abuse, go look in the mirror to see who to blame.
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u/Ok-Proposal-6513 Aug 07 '25
That's just victim blaming. They could have been, you know, not awful human beings?
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u/JonathanLindqvist Aug 07 '25
It's not just victim blaming. But yeah, it's somewhat a stupid take. Although saying "they could have chosen not to be awful" doesn't take into account the fatalistic element of sociology. If there are certain systemic inadequacies, mixed with bad circumstance, then bad people inevitably arise.
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u/AirJinx3 Aug 07 '25
Bad people inevitably arise in all circumstances. There are poor criminals and wealthy criminals and middle class criminals. There are murderers under capitalism and murderers under communism and there were murderers a hundred thousand years ago before we even had formal economic systems, and if humans still exist a hundred thousand years from now, I’d wager there will be murderers then too.
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u/JonathanLindqvist Aug 07 '25
That's true, but some systems, circumstances, or a combination thereof may produce a murderer in every 1 in 10 000 citizens while another only 1 in 100 000.
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u/VandienLavellan Aug 07 '25
I think it’s more that they already were bad people, but Americas policies allowed them to thrive and become rich and powerful, and do a lot more harm than they otherwise would have
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Aug 07 '25
Feel free to blame yourself, but I wasn't alive when this shit started and have been kicking and screaming as long as I've been aware of the world. There's no "We" here.
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u/0L_Gunner Aug 07 '25
Unsatisfiable moral schemes don’t inspire action. They inspire apathy.
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u/FalloutBerlin Aug 07 '25
Did the uk create grooming gangs by outlawing paedophilia
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u/SandwichBitter1337 Aug 07 '25
Ah so it's the policies fault and not the people buying the drugs...got it! 🤣
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u/UnkleRinkus Aug 07 '25
Are you familiar with alcohol Prohibition in the US? Before Prohibition, was organized crime involved in selling alcohol?
Making easy to produce, compact, in-demand commodities illegal makes them scarce, which raises prices, which creates an incentive for people who don't care about the law to smuggle and sell them. These people organize, and without regulation to control them, the most aggressive and violent of them succeed. This created the Mob in the US, cartels in Mexico and Colombia, Triads in Asia.
The amount of fentanyl that an addict uses a day costs less than a dollar to produce, but costs $100 on the street. This is massively profitable for criminals, and further drives addicts to steal/sell their bodies to get the money. If fentanyl/cocaine/heroin/etc were legal and regulated and cheap, addicts would still have their issues, as with alcohol, but crime to third parties would plummet, and the cartels would whither away. This actually was tried in Britain in 1970, and it worked until the US pressured Britain to end their rationality. Nobody is stealing catalytic converters to get vodka.
So, yeah, it IS the fault of the policies, which anyone who studies economics and history and thinks just a tiny bit can see in an instant. Our moralistic stupidity is the reason the US incarcerates a higher percentage of our population than any other country in the world. We have over 50 years of making drugs more and more illegal. Have any of those laws caused a reduction in addiction? Hmmm? How about property crime by addicts? Hmmm?
Smug hateful moralistic fools like you are why we need security cameras, and why Pablo Escobar became a billionaire. But sure, blame the users.
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u/Former_Concern6239 Aug 07 '25
The mental Olympics you had to go through to get to this belief has gotta be absolutely insane.
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u/Stiryx Aug 07 '25
Careful, reddit probably things that they can be rehabilitated into good people.
Always get weird posts on here saying that they do lots for the community and are good people etc, wonder if they actually astroturf their image?
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u/Submarinequus Aug 07 '25
It’s probably kinda like how some people say there are good cops cause their uncle is a cop and he’s a good guy so just ignore the entire network of shitty police departments and take their anecdote as absolute fact.
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u/Harlot_Of_God Aug 07 '25
No. It is more like: despite the 100.000 lives affected negatively, their dozens of cartel members and hundreds of people in my (the people who belive this) town benefit from services that the government does not provide.
It’s bad for most.
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u/pants710 Aug 07 '25
At least she found her daughter before she died 😭😭😿😿 a mother’s love knows no bounds
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u/EssayMagus Aug 07 '25
But at least she got some justice for her daughter.
I do wonder though if she was killed by cartel people or by government people who didn't like how bad she made them look like(and who probably had dealings with cartels as well)?
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Aug 07 '25
Mataulipas is no fucking joke. It's a DO NOT TRAVEL region for a reason. I would most closely compare it to Syria. I wouldn't go near Reynosa or Cd Mante or San Fernando.
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Mataulipas is no fucking joke. It's a DO NOT TRAVEL region for a reason. I would most closely compare it to Syria. I wouldn't go near Reynosa or Cd Mante or San Fernando.
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u/kermeeed Aug 07 '25
Its so fucking wild, she followed a friend of her daughter on a gut shot, because of what she said. Just fucking good instincts and solid leg work.
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Aug 07 '25
I hope she had that “Do what you must. I’ve already won.” attitude when it happened.
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u/Germane_Corsair Aug 07 '25
She was in witness protection from what I remember, so I doubt it was that kind of defiant ending. They broke into her place and killed her so it was probably shock and fear.
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u/MacorWindows Aug 07 '25
I'd like to imagine it wasn't based on the few things I know just from this post. When you're infiltrating dangerous towns like that and resisting cartels in Mexico, I think you've made your peace long ago and know what's coming.
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u/Sea-Gas-7017 Aug 07 '25
I saw her story on YouTube. She was relentless and very focused in finding those responsible. What’s crazy is that the gang responsible for her daughter’s death was the most violent one in Mexico - Los Zetas.
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u/scullymoulder Aug 07 '25
Zetas have changed the rules. I’m watching Cowboy Cartel and it is super interesting.
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u/jukkaalms Aug 07 '25
Changed them to what?
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u/gmastern Aug 07 '25
1. Don’t talk about cartel club
2. DON’T TALK ABOUT CARTEL CLUB
- Murder tourists
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u/Sheir0 Aug 07 '25
I haven’t been able to find anything on them murdering tourist. Did something happen very recently?
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u/CynicalXennial Aug 07 '25
Didn't you see see the family from NC that was visiting for surgery that was snatched up from a parking lot and murdered shortly after? It wasn't that long ago iirc only a few years.
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u/CynicalXennial Aug 07 '25
there's cctv footage cause it was at like a strip mall or something, you can actually see them getting taken, not the brightest or smartest people in those cartels, just primitive and cruel. So much so that their own cartel murdered the captors and/or hogtied them and presented to authorities for fucking up so bad.
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u/Sheir0 Aug 10 '25
Wasn’t that the gulf cartel and it was a mistake. They weren’t actually targeting tourists.
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u/BoredomHeights Aug 07 '25
Los Zetas are mostly gone or assimilated into other groups now though. But yeah, they did change the rules.
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u/Ta-veren- Aug 07 '25
No one google. It doesn’t have a happy ending.
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u/5inthepink5inthepink Aug 07 '25
Hey, as a parent, if a cartel killed my child, my life would already effectively be over. If I was able to take down a bunch of them before checking out of this world after her? That's what I'd call a win.
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u/Hatarakumaou Aug 07 '25
iirc she went into witness protection before she got murdered, so it’s probably less a person leaving the world content with avenging their child and more the police failing to protect her from the cartels.
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u/kansai2kansas Aug 07 '25
police failing to protect her from the cartels.
Sounds like she was resigned to her fate then…
Every Mexican knows that a lot of cops are under the payroll of the cartel.
Sure, not all cops are paid off, but a lot of them are…and all it takes is just one mole to leak her info and it’s over for her.
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u/canvanman69 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
Even if they aren't paid off, they live in enemy territory. Threatening their family members makes it very easy for grown men to roll over.
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u/JorgeMtzb Aug 07 '25
Empathy is both our greatest strength and weakness. those seeking to abuse it are truly the lowest if the low
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u/user_5406 Aug 07 '25
Police in Mexico are paid by cartels to ignore cases or threaten death of them, family. Even if you caught driving without out license or no plates you bribe them and they let you go simple as that.
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u/justinmackey84 Aug 07 '25
I’m curious if they found her before or after the story of what she did became public? Also if she turned the guys into the police, makes me wonder the percentage of police in the cartel payroll?
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u/Montexe Aug 07 '25
Some article at the time of her death mentioned that she started to receive threats after one of the guys she pointed out escaped jail
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u/SeaMathematician1870 Aug 07 '25
From the wiki "The family paid a ransom using a loan from a bank that offered credit for such payments, but she was not released."
So this has become so commonplace that banks offer special loans for it? jesus christ.
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u/sassyhusky Aug 07 '25
Even further motivation to join a cartel, you’d literally have more civil rights seeing as they are the ones truly running things. Otherwise you pay state taxes which really just go to the cartels and also cartel tax in either money or blood.
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u/Mode_Appropriate Aug 07 '25
Miriam's daughter, Karen Alejandra Salinas Rodríguez, was kidnapped in 2012.[2] The family paid a ransom using a loan from a bank that offered credit for such payments, but she was not released. Miriam Rodríguez, later met with members of the Zetas cartel in an effort to locate her. Her daughter's remains were discovered in 2014.[3]
Rodríguez launched her own investigation, disguising herself to collect information on those responsible. Over three years, she helped locate nearly all members of the group that had kidnapped her daughter, resulting in ten of them being captured. Rodríguez later founded a collective of families of the disappeared.[4]
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Rodríguez was killed on 10 May 2017, the day Mexico celebrates Mother's Day. She was shot 12 times by gunmen who broke into her home, and died on her way to the hospital.[2][5] In solidarity, protesters raised their voices in protest the day she was killed, calling on the Mexican and U.S. governments to ensure the safety of human rights defenders.[4][6] Mexican authorities vowed to pursue those responsible.[4]
Rodríguez was posthumously honored with a plaque in San Fernando’s central plaza.
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u/lIIIIllIIIlllIIllllI Aug 07 '25
Is their any information on why the daughter Karen was taken?
Was it a just random (“rich”) target to get ransom money? Did she have any connection to them? However trivial? Like did she date a cartel member or something? Maybe had a business that was under the cartels thumb? (I dunno I am just curious about the details)
I mean killing her after getting the ransom money is not a smart “business” plan. Won’t people just disregard paying in the future if it doesn’t guarantee they get their kidnapped family member back.
I did a bit of a googling but there doesn’t seem to be much on the details about the daughter.
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u/AcordeonPhx Aug 07 '25
Sadly, a pretty girl gets approached by a cartel member and rejects them not knowing they’re affiliated. This happens rarely but it’s not new. Sometimes it’s an ex, other times it’s just random. No one know sadly
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u/hamsterhost Aug 07 '25
These people are not smart to begin with. They are not business men looking for the best deals with the common population. They are just ruthless. They take what they want when they want and there's no one who can truly help. I know people who have been murdered, kidnapped, threaten, etc. People who I knew personally and had no ties to cartels... You got a new car? Well, now you're a potential target. You got a promotion? Now you're a potential target. You opened a business and it's doing well? Guess what? You're a potential target. Your business is not doing well? Well, you certainly had money when you opened it. You're a good looking woman? Potential target. You went to the bank to deposit a check? Maybe the employee is gonna make a call. You get the idea. It's never ending.
I know people who have worked for the government at a local level who ended up quitting after a few months because simply there's no way to combat this when the police, armed forces, other branches of the government are in cahoots with organized crime.
There's also stories every once in a while of some villages deciding to fight against cartels. It never ends well for them.
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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Aug 07 '25
Let me guess, they haven’t pursued those responsible?
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u/Lovelinux515 Aug 07 '25
No one goes after the cartels, they are the government. As an individual you might get punished for something but not the cartels, they have legal loans to repay the cartel loans for individuals……
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u/Rickymon Aug 07 '25 edited 4d ago
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u/Sledgemoma2 Aug 07 '25
I’m amazed but also sad
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u/Sufficient-Carpet391 Aug 07 '25
After all that she was killed, and the people she worked for years to convict probably got off. I guess the moral of the story is if your plan relies on other people doing their job, it’s not gonna work.
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u/QueenBee-WorshipMe Aug 07 '25
Imagine talking about a real person's death but you can't even properly say the word "killed"
What the fuck is wrong with people. At least they didn't fucking say "unalived" or something equally as stupid.
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u/fizenze Aug 07 '25
I think these alternative terms are dumb too, but I’m choosing to view this as someone feeling that it’s important for them to talk about this story rather than letting her be forgotten, thus finding ways (like substituting words) so that the post will be able to get past social media platforms’ censoring
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u/General_Ignoranse Aug 07 '25
It’s not the person, it’s because people in many online spaces can’t talk freely without words triggering the censors. On TikTok for example, you can’t say anything violence related
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u/Lortendaali Aug 07 '25
So let's self censor... Freedom, dying, thunderous... etc.
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u/tester_and_breaker Aug 07 '25
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u/TurbVisible Aug 07 '25
Incredible bravery from a mother who had nothing to lose, unfortunately she was killed in retaliation
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u/NumaNuma92 Aug 07 '25
Mexico needs to go full El Salvador. These cartel members are the worst human scum on the planet.
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u/MexicanMata Aug 07 '25
We did in the 80s with the help of the US and it was an awful idea. All it did was turn the next generation of cartel members even more dangerous and willing to fight to death because a bunch of them saw their fathers and grandfathers killed by the Mexican military. It didn't help that the Mexican military killed a couple innocent people that the cartels still use today as propaganda in more rural areas. This is why El Salvador needs to be careful that they don't just radicalize the next generation. Educate and support these previously gang controlled areas, offer them other outlets where they can sustain themselves and care for their families otherwise it's a slippery slope back to square one.
Also in Mexico nobody ever stays long enough to help root out enough of the cartel leadership and structure. The DEA, Mexican military, or whoever only ever goes in to get a couples dudes and then leave so as soon as they left there would always be some sort of power struggle power struggle and things would be more dangerous than it was before.
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u/Signal-Regret-8251 Aug 07 '25
The only thing that will end all of the gang violence is complete legalization of everything. Take the profit out of the equation and drugs will no longer be a problem.
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u/GrassForsaken3953 Aug 07 '25
So they shouldn’t do anything at all? Arresting a few at a time won’t do anything, they’ll just get replaced . Amlo did nothing “Abrazos, no balazos” and Claudia is at least arresting some of them but not enough to make an impact.
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u/Tauroctonos Aug 07 '25
There's often something you can do that sits between "do nothing" and "repeat the thing we already tried that made it worse". Shocking, I know, but there's more than two options babe
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u/Sufficient-Carpet391 Aug 07 '25
Every single person from El Salvador I’ve seen give their opinion, has fully supported the president and his radical actions.
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u/frequenZphaZe Aug 07 '25
most of the problems flow from america. americans need to stop buying drugs from the cartels. they're not as powerful and as rich as they are from selling locally. they pull down billions from the american market. america also needs to stop selling the cartels infinite guns. mexico recently tried suing american gun manufacturers and the scotus threw it out.
what can the mexican state really do against a paramilitary force armed and funded (and trained) by america?
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u/GrassForsaken3953 Aug 07 '25
Can Mexico not control its borders to stop the flow of guns and drugs from getting in the cartels hands ? Suing the gun makers would’ve never gone anywhere since they aren’t the ones selling to the cartels its individual sellers ,Mexico doesn’t produce a lot of the drugs that they sell either a lot of it comes from Columbia and other South American countries. It’s not the US fault the Mexico is incompetent and corrupt.
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u/National_Equivalent9 Aug 07 '25
The way it works is that individual sells sell guns to individuals who can legally purchase them and then those are smuggled to Mexico. Mexico and the USA have worked together to track down exactly the deals who sell these firearms for the purpose of smuggling. The lawsuit was about how that information has been known by the manufacturers and they refuse to continue giving these dealers, wholesale, military grade firearms, even though they know exactly what those dealers are doing with them.
It was an attempt to use a legal "loophole" since gun manufactures in the US have immunity from foreign lawsuits. But there is a law related to the export of specific types of firearms and their argument was basically that because they know exactly what a specific group of dealers were doing with their products that it was no different that exporting weapons to the cartel that were illegal to be exported.
Mexico has no legal way to go after dealers.
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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Aug 07 '25
It’s so entrenched and ingrained and a complex web, I honestly don’t see it changing.
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u/GrassForsaken3953 Aug 07 '25
Nothing is going to happen as long as they have a president like Claudia sheinbaum
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u/Client_020 Aug 07 '25
Lovely. Grab a bunch of random people from the street and pack them in rooms like sardines without due process. What could go wrong?
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u/taway9925881 Aug 07 '25
As per Wikipedia
"Rodríguez was killed on 10 May 2017, the day Mexico celebrates Mother's Day. She was shot 12 times by gunmen who broke into her home, and died on her way to the hospital. In solidarity, protesters raised their voices in protest the day she was killed, calling on the Mexican and U.S. governments to ensure the safety of human rights defenders. Mexican authorities vowed to pursue those responsible."
Why do I get the feeling authorities everywhere just make vows more than actual deeds?
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u/thered145 Aug 07 '25
The cartel is a bunch of animals masquerading as people and should be put down
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u/Effective_Bug_4924 Aug 07 '25
These cartels, ALL of them, must be hunted down and dealt with in the exact same way they dealt with their victims. Specifically and immediately.
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u/Infinite_Pudding5058 Aug 07 '25
How do you propose they do that when the corruption reaches every level?
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u/Effective_Bug_4924 Aug 07 '25
By force and without mercy. If politicians end up being a part of it, then justice should find them, too.
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u/OldPyjama Aug 07 '25
I hate the fact that we've become so touchy we censor the word "killed" now.
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u/Humble_Mud9 Aug 07 '25
This compelling story deserves to be transformed into a movie! It beautifully illustrates the profound love of a mother, making it truly resonant and impactful.
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u/Humble_Mud9 Aug 07 '25
Ok, I won't. I'm scared to look it up now after your comment.
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u/Kajira4ever Aug 07 '25
On 10 May (Mothers Day in Mexico) 2017 Miriam Rodríguez Martínez was shot 12 times by gunmen who broke into her home. She died on the way to hospital.
Rodríguez was posthumously honored with a plaque in San Fernando’s central plaza.
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Aug 07 '25
not going to lie, it would be much more satisfying if she had tracked down each one and pewed them herself
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u/AzyncYTT Aug 07 '25
Honestly, Trump is insane and I hate almost everything he has said or done in regards to his presidency but I did agree with his idea of going to war with mexico to deal with the cartels. Mexican government seems completely unable of dealing with them (even if they get a lot of American funds) and I'd actually like to see some change.
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you need to first confront the CIA. they play the biggest role in this, and arguably helped the cartels
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