Current Events : Three women from Texas went missing in Mexico

Two sisters from Texas and a friend are missing in Mexico after they crossed the border last month to sell clothes at a flea market, U.S. authorities said Friday.

The abduction of four Americans in Mexico that was caught on video last week received an avalanche of attention and was resolved in a matter of days. But the fate of the three women, who haven’t been heard from in about two weeks, remains a mystery and has garnered relatively little publicity.

The FBI said Friday it is aware that two sisters from Peñitas, a small border city in Texas near McAllen, and their friend have gone missing. Peñitas Police Chief Roel Bermea said their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance.

Beyond that, officials in the U.S. and Mexico haven’t said much about their pursuit of Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47; Marina Perez Rios, 48; and their friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53.

The episode stands in stark contrast to the government and media frenzy over the abduction of four Americans on a road trip to Mexico for plastic surgery. They were caught in a drug cartel shootout in the border city of Matamoros, and video showed them being hauled off in a pickup truck. The two survivors were found Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf coast.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the three women crossed into Mexico on Feb. 24, a Friday, according to Bermea. Peñitas is just a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande River.

The husband of one of the women spoke to her by phone while she was traveling in Mexico, the police chief said, but grew concerned when he couldn’t reach her afterward.

“Since he couldn’t make contact over that weekend, he came in that Monday and reported it to us,” Bermea said. The three women haven’t been heard from since.

Bermea said the women were traveling in a green mid-1990s Chevy Silverado to a flea market in the city of Montemorelos, in Nuevo Leon state. It’s about a three-hour drive from the border. Officials at the state prosecutor’s office said they have been investigating the women’s disappearance since Monday.

This week’s massive search for the four kidnapped Americans involved squads of Mexican soldiers and National Guard troops. But for most of the 112,000 Mexicans missing nationwide, the only ones looking for them are their desperate relatives.

Authorities also lack manpower, equipment and training — things are so bad that authorities aren’t even able to identify tens of thousands of bodies that have been found.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-missing-women-texas-8fe318a7c4a7ef649a18385f15ee7337

With those names I am guessing the women are Mexican.
Which is prob. why this is pretty much ignored in comparison to the other kidnapping where it was obvious they were American.

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I don't know, it just says they're from Texas.

US authorities are warning people not to go to Mexico on Spring Break (I noticed this article says two of the kidnapped Americans were "released unharmed," which isn't true, since one of them was shot):

Authorities in the US state of Texas have advised American citizens not travel to Mexico during the spring break holidays for security reasons.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that drug cartel violence represented a significant threat for anyone crossing into Mexico.

It comes after four Americans were kidnapped shortly after crossing the border last week.

Two of them were murdered, while two were released unharmed.

Three American women who went to Mexico to sell clothes at a market have been missing for more than two weeks.

"Drug cartel violence and other criminal activity represent a significant safety threat to anyone who crosses into Mexico right now," said DPS director Steven McCraw.

"Based on the volatile nature of cartel activity and the violence we are seeing there, we are urging individuals to avoid travel to Mexico at this time."

Four Americans were kidnapped by a drug cartel, and two of them were murdered, when they visited the town of Matamoros, Mexico, earlier this month. A Mexican bystander was also killed in the shooting.

The cartel responsible has since apologised for the incident and handed over its own gunmen to the police.

A letter left with the cartel gunmen, who had been left on the roadside, accused them of acting "under their own decision-making and lack of discipline" as well as supposedly breaking cartel rules over "protecting the lives of the innocent".

It was signed by the "Scorpions Group", a splinter faction of the powerful Gulf Cartel.

Mexican authorities believe the gang members mistook the Americans for rivals and shot at them when they tried to escape.

The incident threatens to sour relations between the two countries.

A Republican senator has urged President Joe Biden's administration to allow the deployment of US troops over the border to fight the cartels.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the proposals "arrogant".

Meanwhile, two sisters from Texas and a friend are missing in Mexico after they crossed the border last month to sell clothes at a flea market, US officials say.

The husband of one of the women reported their disappearance to police in Texas after days going by without news.

"We don't know if they made it there," Roel Bermea, police chief in the border town of Penitas, told the AFP news agency.

The FBI had been notified, he added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64929565

Two sisters from Texas and a friend are missing in Mexico after they crossed the border last month to sell clothes at a flea market

Right. They totally went to Mexico to sell clothes and get some of those sweet Mexican pesos. Bullshit. They went there on a drug run. That's literally the only reason to go to Mexico.

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Maybe Mexican flea markets are the best flea markets in the world.

It's where the wealthiest people shop.

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Time to put up a mile high fence barring access and entry to that massive shit hole.

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