By arthur Weinreb
Thursday, October 19, 2006
On Tuesday, flamboyant Toronto lawyer Edward Greenspan held a press conference about the latest developments in the deaths of Woodbridge Ontario residents, Domenic and Nancy Ianiero. The couple was found dead in their Mexican hotel room last February; their throats had been slashed. The Mexican authorities were quick to point out and have maintained since that the murders were committed by fellow Canadians. The official Mexican theory of the deaths alternated between the Ianieros' former son-in-law who was said to be a former Guatemalan paramilitary officer and hit man (how convenient) and two single mothers from Thunder Bay Ontario. Ianieros' blood was supposedly found in the room of Cheryl Everall and Kimberly Kim, later dubbed "the killer moms‚" who had been in Mexico to attend a wedding. It is conceivable that they did in fact bring some of the couple's blood into their room after walking in the hallway outside the Ianieros' room.
The most likely suspect is Blas Delgado Fajardo, a Mexican. Fajardo was a former paratrooper who would have had the training to carry out what appears to be the professional killing of the couple. He was working at the Mexican hotel as a security guard and had met Domenic and Nancy Ianiero. He called in sick the day that their bodies were discovered and was never seen again. It is believed that Fajardo is now in the United States.
What led to Greenspan, who is acting for the Ianiero family to hold his press conference were the latest statements made by Mexican attorney General, Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. The aG said that DNa tests showed that a hair found in Nancy Ianiero's hand did not belong to Fajardo; therefore he could not have been the killer. Greenspan had previously been told by Mexican authorities that the hair had in fact belonged to the murdered woman.
Greenspan pulled no punches, calling Rodriguez y Carrillo's statements "disgusting", "outrageous", "a political three-ring statement‚" and added "The attorney general is a bald-face liar". The Canadian government is currently trying to solve the murder through diplomatic channels and Foreign Minister Peter MacKay labelled Greenspan's comments as not being "productive or constructive‚".
The murder of the Ianieros and Greenspan's press conference became the subject of discussion including the topic on radio call-in shows. What was really disconcerting is the number of people that see the problem as something that only the government of Canada can solve. Some callers criticized MacKay for not doing enough which was strange in itself; we don't declare war against dangerous dictators like Mahmoud ahmadinejad or Kim Jong Il; what else can Canada do about a country like Mexico other than use quiet diplomatic channels. Yet there are calls by some Canadians for the government to stop Canadians from going to Mexico. Being so reliant on the state, apparently we cannot refrain from going to Mexico unless the government prohibits us from going.
What makes Mexico so dangerous is not that others can wind up like Domenic and Nancy Ianiero; people can and are brutally murdered all over the world including of course, right here at home. It is the fact that a tourist in Mexico could conceivably end up like Cheryl Everall and Kimberly Kim. Had they had different backgrounds, the accusations that they had committed these brutal murders could have been taken a lot more seriously by authorities in Canada and their fellow citizens. Something should be done but that does not mean that the government of Canada has to do it.
There is no doubt that shortly after the bodies of the Ianieros were discovered, the Mexican authorities began a campaign to pin the murders on Canadians in an attempt to avoid a decrease in their important tourism industry and carried out their mission to absurd lengths. If Canadians are really upset by how Mexico has behaved during this investigation (and it appears that they are) they should boycott Mexico; not because it is a dangerous place, but to show their contempt for the actions of the Mexican attorney general and others involved in the investigation. Perhaps it is now time to call for a boycott of tourist dollars being spent in Mexico to teach them a lesson. But this is something that should be done and organized by Canadians themselves and not simply left for their government to tell them not to travel there.
The government cannot be expected to do everything; although many people believe that the government should.
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