US professor kidnapped in Mexico
An American educator was kidnapped while visiting her mother this weekend according to Fox News;
The American was identified as Veronica Perez Rodriguez, an archeologist at Northern Arizona University.
A source at the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said she was visiting her mother in Ciudad Juarez Friday afternoon “and the moment she left her family’s house she was intercepted by armed men and deprived of her liberty.”
The local Fox affiliate reports that if she’s not Japanese, the government doesn’t really care;
Ivna Giauque with the Department of U.S. Consular Affairs told CNN they hadn’t been alerted about a kidnapping because they’ve been focused on the earthquake that hit Japan on Friday.
How dare she get kidnapped during the media’s focus on Japan.
ADDED: Oh, wait…she’s safe;
School officials said Saturday that Veronica Perez Rodriguez was the victim of a kidnapping late Friday while visiting family members in Ciudad Juarez.
They say Rodriguez’s colleagues have received e-mails from her saying that she’s OK and in the company of family members.
Still…
Category: Shitbags
What in hell could the consulate in Ciudad Juarez do that would involve the quake in Japan? I know that Ears is a CoW, but really? The consulate was so busy watching Fox, or CNN coverage on the quake, that they couldn’t be bothered about a US citizen being kidnapped?
UN? It’s that HAARP device….
I wonder if the kidnappers looked up the professor’s salary (available to the public since she’s a state employee) and decided it wasn’t worth the effort?
/sarc but not by much. I’m very glad that she’s safe.
Didn’t this Academianut see the news? Juarez is not a nice place. Not to visit, not to live in. More proof that Stupid Hurts.