Search for lost brother reveals dark secret of Mexico’s ‘death flights’

As many as 1,500 people may have been thrown out of planes over the ocean in crackdown on rebel groups, including members of Abdallan Guzmán’s family

Abdallan was the sixth to be taken.

First they came for his older brother Amafer, nabbed in broad daylight on the streets of the Mexican city of Morelia. Then they came for his other brother, Armando, grabbed on the outskirts of the capital. That same day, soldiers burst into the family home, beating his younger brothers Solón and Venustiano, as well as his father Jesús – eventually they too would be taken. Finally in October, security forces took Abdallan Guzmán himself, subjecting him to the cruelest forms of torture before tossing him in prison.

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