translated from Spanish: To the teeth, the story of a failed State

to eight years that 19 of March, 2010, parents of Javier Francisco Arredondo and Jorge Antonio market Alonso continue demanding justice for the murder of their children at the hands of the Mexican army.
The military shot the two students of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, then manipulated the crime scene to pass them as criminals who struck at close range.
The official version of the national defense secretariat said that they were criminals who had attacked the military, later found that only Javier and Jorge were students who wore a backpack and were not armed “to the teeth” as He said the official version.
up toMexican documentary directed by Alberto Arnaut teeth shows videos from security cameras of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, which shows how the military attacked George and Javier, even the time that manipulate the scene and placed guns to young people.
After seven years of research, the director Alberto Arnaut presents this documentary first intended to “clear the name of George and Javier, tell his story of life and people to know who they were”.
Arnaut met in life to Javier Francisco Verdugo, “he was of the people of my dad – all Saints Baja California South-, when I went to visit my grandmother, I lived with him, it was more or less my age.” The murder outraged the people of Todos Santos a lot”.

‘I do not believe in the authorities’
during the presentation of the documentary, Rosa Mercado, Jorge Antonio market Alonso’s mother, spoke of the irregularities in the investigation of the murder of her son, and how during these eight years demanded justice to the authorities.
“When I was in preliminary investigation if we are struggling enough, as having the closed case. Thanks to the student Assembly of the technological and the movement all are Jorge and Javier, has reopened the case. We ask for citations, not they gave them us. If we are, we do not cater, it is not the answer we deserve as victims. “In the law it is written that the victims have many rights and nothing”.
Before these irregularities and the little accompaniment of authorities parents ask for “justice under law, and above all clear the name of Jorge and Javier, who we see it very unfair, because being two students of excellence have fallen as two Hitmen” armed to the teeth”, said the mother of Jorge.
For Rosa, the pain of losing his son became strength to do justice “lasted years thinking that it had been a mistake, thinking that it was cross-fire, until a lawyer said to me: Lady, you must know the truth so that you can fight”.
After reading the record of George, “we realized the truth, that was not a mistake, that had not been cross-fire. “I can’t find an adjective to tell what was what they did with them, because murder is nothing, there was where, God told me to fight and be brave, and if I am here it is thanks to him”.
Part of the Tec de Monterrey surveillance videos.“the army in the streets is a failed strategy”
speak of the law of internal security is just a sample of what is happening in Mexico, “which pulled out Felipe Calderón the army into the streets was not a strategy that worked, is a strategy fallid” that brought more violence and more violations of human rights”, said to Animal politician Director of Cencos, Ixchel Cisneros.
On a recent trip to Ciudad Juarez – one of the first cities where he became the army as part of the war against the narco-, Cisneros noted that the perception of the people against the authorities “is tremendous, they had to see and live rape and disappearances “, theft, looting their homes by the armed forces and to be an institution that follows certain rules, that has very little transparency, these things are possible and with the internal security act to give them much stronger”.
According to the Organization, civic Data, at the end of October there is a total of 34 thousand 270 cases of persons who disappeared in Mexico, according to data from the national registry of persons lost or missing (RNPED), a reason for which “citizens us” We get involved to stop this law”.
In the documentary to the teeth the public will see how the army pursues and kills two students to finally handle the crime scene and give an official version that these young men were criminals who were pursuing hours before.
Also you can know Jorge and Javier, in 108 minutes, from your University, and family life until they were killed; the fight for family and friends before the authorities and impunity for the military in the hands of the general Cuauhtemoc Perez Antunez, who served as Secretary of public security of the State of Nuevo León during the Government of Jaime Heliodoro Calderón, also known as “The Bronco”.
Up to the teeth was awarded the Golden Butterfly Camera Justitia in Movies that Matter; the jury award in Doqumenta, International Festival of documentary cinema of Querétaro; and special mention at the International Film Festival of Guanajuato.
The documentary toteeth, distributed by Ambulante, opens in 400 theaters around the country from Friday 7 September 13 as part of the celebration of the Mexican cinema programming.

Original source in Spanish

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