Mystery surrounds disappearance of three Italians in Mexico's Jalisco state
MEXICO CITY_In a country where tens of thousands of people have gone missing, most presumed killed by gangs, sometimes in cahoots with police, the recent disappearance of three men barely qualified as news except for one fact: they are citizens not of Mexico but of Italy.
The toll of Mexico's escalating violence has fallen almost exclusively on Mexicans, often with only a passing mention in the press of the daily ledger of assaults, homicides and abductions.
But international scrutiny is inevitable when foreigners become victims - as happened when two Australian surfers were found dead
