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David O'Shea reports from Mexico, where people are struggling to cope with a horrifying increase in violence, brought about by the Mexican government’s decision to wage war on the powerful drug cartels.
The death toll so far this year is 4000, higher than Iraq, and around 3-4 people are kidnapped for ransom daily.
“We’re assaulted every day,” one resident of Mexico City tells O’Shea. “Mexico as a country can not guarantee our security.”
O’Shea spends time in Sinaloa, Mexico’s Wild West, where life is a daily rollcall of decapitations, torturing and the shooting deaths of gangsters and innocents alike.
In the four days he’s there he sees a hysterical young man who’s just witnessed the shooting of his sister, and films the bodies of two more people, shot dead in broad daylight by assassins on motorbikes.
The governor of Sinaloa, Jesus Padilla, tells O’Shea that security is improving, yet many are still pessimistic.
Some believe corrupt police are involved in the drugs trade and the kidnappings. While O’Shea is filming his story it’s revealed that a federal police officer – at one point a member of the Anti-Kidnap team – is arrested over the kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old boy.
On air: 15th October 2008
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