Mexico: Missing Nursing Student, Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro, Found Dead, Mutilated In Uruapan, Michoacán

Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro, a 19-year-old nursing student, has been found dead in Mexico. According to Excelsior, Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro went missing on Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Her missing poster flyer has been shared all over social media since her disappearance. The young nursing student’s body was found on Friday, December 5, 2014. Bravo Caro’s body had been discarded on a road in Uruapan, Michoacan, near Las Cocinas, according to Borderland Beat.

Bravo Caro’s body showed stab wounds to the chest area. A graphic photo, published by some Mexican media outlets, show the girl’s mutilated face with entire areas of skin peeled off. Authorities say she was last seen by her family dressed in her nurses uniform headed to work in La Quinta.

Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro’s death comes on the heels of the burning death of another young woman who had been beaten with rocks. Her distraught family and community members have taken to the streets to demand justice for Caro and other female victims, according to El Debate. Recently, Inquisitr reported on the discovery of five mutilated bodies in Chilapa, Guerrero.

The people of Mexico say the situation there has become dire, dismal, and downright dangerous since ex President Felipe Calderon declared his Messianic War, according to a message released in a YouTube video featuring Mexican actors and actresses bringing awareness about the violence in Mexico. What was once a country known for its beautiful beaches, is now one of the most feared countries due to the violence, where tens of thousands of people have vanished and thousands upon thousands killed.

In 2006, the Mexican president promised to crack down on Mexican’s worst drug lords, drug traffickers, and gangs. However, what has resulted is the turning of Mexican streets and roads into slaughterhouses, as people lay dead in the street. Many of the people killed are innocent bystanders, not drug lords.

According to Truth Out, Maria Gonzalez Vela spoke out after her 37-year-old son, Andres, vanished while driving on a dangerous road from Mexico to Texas. She feels that the president has abandoned them.

“He doesn’t stay here to show his face to the victims and all the consequences of his political economical and war decisions” says National Autonomous University of Mexico professor Pietro Ameglio “If he wants to discuss with students of the USA or the world in Harvard, he should first discuss with victims and families of victims about why he took such dramatic effects and without any conscience.”

Calderon blames the problem in Mexico on the United States’ demand for illegal drugs.

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