Article: Mexico's 'Bermuda Triangle' Two months after officials dug up nine bodies near Juarez, pressure to locate the 'disappeared' mounts.(World)

As any mother would, Esperanza Gomez de Ontiveros remembers the day her son disappeared from the streets of Ciudad Juarez as if it were yesterday.

She can still picture Victor Hugo, an armaments specialist with the Chihuahua state judicial police, stopping by after work on Sept. 2, 1996, to celebrate the start of his vacation.

"He was happy about his time off when he left for his house," says the retired teacher, whose middle-class neighborhood sits just a few miles from the Texas border. "Then three blocks from here, neighbors saw his car surrounded by other cars with heavily armed men in dark clothing. They said Victor tried to escape," she adds, "but ...

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