User:NickBauhan/Juan Pablo Solís

Juan Pablo Solís
Disappeared	Zitácuaro, Mexico
Status	still missing
Nationality (legal)	Mexican
Occupation(s)	radio and television station owner

Assigned Juan Pablo Solís, who was a radio and television station owner in Michoacán, Mexico and was kidnapped 7 December 2007. Focus on the context about what is going on with violence and kidnappings in Michoacán at this time. This was the very beginning of the drug war. Back then this Mexican state was the center of the narco industry. Former President Felipe Calderon came from there.

• IFEX
• Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa
• Terra #1
• Banderas News, Assocated Press report
• Terra #2
• IAPA report on impunity
• IAPA communication
• El universal
• Committee on Freedom of the Press
• Almost a year later and the murder of another editor
• A later IAPA warning
• El universal
• LA Times

Juan Pablo Solís , (DAY MONTH YEAR – DAY MONTH YEAR), a Mexican, was working as a radio and television station owner in Michoacán, Mexico when he was kidpapped on December 17th, 2007 ... SUMMARY OF NOTABILITY (You will provide more detailed information about this journalist's nobility under the impact section below).

Death

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Mentioned locations within Mexico relative to the capital Mexico City.

Context

Michoacán is located in the center-western part of Mexico, and is the country's sixteenth largest state. It accounts for 3% of Mexico's national territory. Michoacán is further divided into 113 municipios, which is a term used for subnational entities. Michoacán is bordered by several states, and also has a 132-mile shoreline on the Pacific Ocean. .

Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, was born in Michoacán. He declared war on the country's drug traffickers, when he took office in 2006. Calderón’s first act was to send sixty-five hundred soldiers and federal police into Michoacán. Fifty thousand soldiers and twenty thousand federal police are now in the streets and countryside, but the bloodshed and disorder have grown worse. More than twenty-three thousand people have died in Mexico’s drug war since Calderón’s declaration—more than three thousand so far this year.

One of Michoacán's most prevalent crim syndicates is known as La Familia Michoacana. This group of ruthless cartel members has become inscreasingly known as Michoacán's "first law." The state's police department reports to La Familia, as well as many other legitimate businesses. According to a recent study, 85% of legitimate businesses in Michoacán are somehow connected to La Familia, most commonly due to a form of debt.