Mexico Video appears to show missing Mexican intelligence agents held at gunpoint Agents are apparently forced to read from a script confessing to rape and torture, surrounded by five possible gang members in video Police in Nayarit state. Photograph: STRINGER/ReutersA chilling video apparently shows two kneeling, bound Mexican intelligence agents confessing supposed rights violations while surrounded by five masked gunmen pointing machine pistols and assault rifles at them. One of the pair reads from an apparently prepared script in which he claims agents and military personnel committed rape, torture and theft. However, the attorney general’s office said the two missing agents had been off duty and attending a family event in Nayarit when they disappeared. The video released over the weekend on social media was shocking in part because while corrupt local police have been taped “confessing” and being executed on video in the past, it has seldom happened to federal agents.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2018 17:37 UTC