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TIJUANA, Mexico — The mother of slain photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel asked Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, Mexico's deputy interior minister responsible for human rights, for justice Thursday during a forum in Tijuana about the failed system meant to protect journalists. "I only ask for justice. All I want to ask of you is justice for my son because my son, sir, was a good man. He was dedicated to his work and his family," said Eglantina Esquivel, who also worked at one time as a reporter and journalist in Tijuana and Baja California. At a forum to sign a collaboration agreement betw......

BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico — They are called los desaparecidos — the disappeared. The term gained popularity among extralegal military and police forces in Argentina in the mid-1970s, describing people taken by government-backed armed forces. They vanished without a trace into a world void of human and legal rights. Today there is a different war being waged in Mexico, and a new class of los desaparecidos. More than 79,000 people have disappeared in the country, the vast majority since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón launched Mexico's war on drugs. Tijuana, a sprawling metropolis of 2.......