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Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

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

Mexican soldiers in the street in Mexico City in 1968.
Mexican soldiers in the street in Mexico City in 1968. Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori/Getty Images

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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