Go ahead, warbloggers. Complain about Mexico. I dare you.

U.S. Protests at Mexico Jail Torture, Murder
Fri May 14, 2004 07:28 PM ET

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States, under fire internationally for abusing Iraqi prisoners, complained on Friday about the treatment of a U.S. murder suspect in Mexico who it said was tortured then stabbed to death in jail.
Texan Mario Medina, held on suspicion of killing a newspaper editor in the violent border city of Nuevo Laredo, was murdered by a fellow prisoner in the city's Cereso II jail on Thursday night.

The State Department had complained to Mexican officials in April that Medina had been tortured to make him confess to the murder of the journalist, who campaigned against drug traffickers and government corruption.

"The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has sent a strongly worded diplomatic note to the government of Mexico asking for a full investigation into the murder of Mr. Medina," U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said in a statement.

A spokesman for the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office, said a prisoner stabbed Medina to death with a makeshift knife for carrying out a sexual assault on him.

"I imagine that the assault by this person was such that the other one could not contain himself," spokesman Ruben Dario Rios told Reuters.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on May 15, 2004 - 5:12pm
 
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It is important to note that the paper where the editor who was murdered worked, doubts that Medina was the murderer. Also, evidence in Medina's killing indicates more than one knife was used in the prison killing, making it unlikely that it was one guy who was fighting on the sexual advances with a knife.

And anyway, isn't that always the reason given for killing gays?

While you make an excellent point, the U.S. has little credibility left in pointing fingers at the prison abuses of other countries, please do not perpetuate stereotypes of gays as sexual predators.

Posted by  Keith (not verified) on May 27, 2004 - 2:59pm.

The idea of a gay sexual predator never occurred to me. I know a lot more straight folks that would fit the description. I understand why it would occur to you though, and you're right, the last two paragraphs weren't necessary to make my point.

Posted by  P6 (not verified) on May 27, 2004 - 8:32pm.