Mexican Dirty War: Mexico's 'death flights': 50 years of impunity | USA
In the early 1970s, Apolinar Ceballos was a trainee pilot who had just arrived on the military airbase of Pie de la Cuesta, on the coast of Guerrero state in Mexico. A teacher informed him one afternoon that he had been selected for a special mission â and he could tell no one about it. Ceballos would see some strange things, he was told, but he was to follow orders and not breathe a word. His first mission began at dawn. He was in charge of the plane and his teacher was his co-pilot. Before taking off, he could hear footsteps and voices as he sat in the cockpit. âThis package is he...