{"id":36163,"date":"2012-11-09T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/at-least-36-engineers-and-technicians-have-been\/"},"modified":"2012-11-09T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:04:07","slug":"at-least-36-engineers-and-technicians-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/at-least-36-engineers-and-technicians-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>At least 36 engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in the past four years, according to a report from Mexican news site Animal Politico, with an English translation published by organized-crime monitoring group InSight. Worse, none of the engineers have been held for ransom \u2014 they\u2019ve just disappeared. Among them include at least one IBM employee and several communications technicians from a firm owned by Mexico\u2019s largest construction company. \u201cThe fact that skilled workers have been disappearing in these areas is no accident,\u201d Felipe Gonzalez, head of Mexico\u2019s Senate Security Committee, told the website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the systems engineers who disappeared have been found,\u201d Gonzalez said. Unlike Colombia, where drug traffickers control large amounts of territory and can keep hostages for many years, Mexico\u2019s drug territory is more in flux. \u201cWhen they need specialists they catch them, use them, and discard them,\u201d said the father of one kidnapped engineer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/11\/zeta-radio\/\">Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network<\/a>, <em>Wired<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/varanine.tumblr.com\/\">varanine<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 36 engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in the past four years, according to a report from Mexican news site Animal Politico, with an English translation published by organized-crime monitoring group InSight. Worse, none of the engineers have been held for ransom \u2014 they\u2019ve just disappeared. Among them include at least one IBM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1750,1748,221,1539,1749,208],"class_list":["post-36163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-arms-race","tag-cartels","tag-colombia","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-mexico","tag-technology","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}