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March 07, 2023
Contact: David Cruz - (818) 689-9991 Mobile
[email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ]



LULAC CALLS FOR BINATIONAL DIALOGUE TO END VICIOUS CYCLE OF DRUG-RELATED VIOLENCE
AND THE START OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIONS
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Nation's Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Sends Condolences to
Families of Americans Killed in Mexico Gunbattle and Warns Against Partisan
Political Rhetoric
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Washington, DC - The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued a
statement in the wake of two Americans killed in Matamoros, Mexico. The FBI
reported that four Americans were kidnapped Friday in the Mexican border city
across from Brownsville, Texas. Witnesses said four people in a white minivan
with North Carolina license plates were caught in cartel crossfire before being
taken by force from the scene. Mexican officials reported Tuesday that they
located the bodies of two Americans and rescued two survivors, one of them
wounded.

Photo Credit: Elefante Blanco

Domingo Garcia, LULAC National President

"LULAC sends heartfelt condolences to the families of the Americans who were
killed and prays for the recovery of the two persons who were found alive. We
urge the FBI and American government officials to work with their counterparts in
Mexico and apprehend and bring to justice the persons who committed these
criminal acts of attacking innocent American visitors, killing two.
Unfortunately, this type of deadly violence is faced daily by Mexican citizens
and Americans living near the border in the seemingly endless war on drugs. The
stream of drugs continues into the United States, where the demand goes
unchecked, and politicians fail to provide rehab and prevention dollars to stop
the demand side of this terrible issue. Also, according to the National
Institutes for Health (NIH) [ [link removed] ] ,
more than three million Americans are addicted to legally produced and sold
opioids in America by legal drug dealers in the US.

To attempt to scapegoat drugs as a 'Mexican border problem' fails to address why
American consumer demand has not decreased despite billions spent on police and
prisons. We must deal with the violence fed by the insatiable demand for drugs
and stop the ignorant political rhetoric, such as building a border wall or
sending American troops into Mexico. Such talk only feeds into the wrong mindset
that the military-police-industrial prison complex is the solution. Proof of that
is that El Chapo is in prison, and Pablo Escobar is dead, but the drug flow
continues unabated. These actions have not solved anything in the last fifty
years and will not solve drug-related problems in the future. LULAC calls for an
emergency border conference with political and community leaders from the USA and
Mexico to find real solutions to reduce the demand for drugs and stop the flow of
guns and corrupting cash to Mexico."

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation's largest and
oldest Hispanic civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic
Americans and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC,
with 1,000 councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC's programs,
services, and advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting the
critical needs of today and the future. For more information, visit www.lulac.org [ [link removed] ]















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