Yesterday I wrote about the missing and the disappeared in Mexico which number in the tens of thousands. Recently, that number included a group of surfers made up of two Australian brothers and their American friend. They were carjacked and murdered, their bodies dumped in a deep well. When authorities found them they found a 4th body in the well, apparently unrelated to their murders. Welcome to Mexico.
Today the NY Times published a first person account written by Manuel Gisbert, a kidnap victim who survived after his family agreed to pay a ransom to the cartel members who were holding him.
My partner at the time and I were on a highway on the outskirts of Mexico City shooting an experimental film when a group of armed men approached us. Our mistake: using a camera in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
We were abducted near Parres, a town where poverty and corruption have created…
