page_title: Villas de Salvárcar massacre
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Villas de Salvárcar massacre / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of Israel Arzate Meléndez during a press conference. Español: Israel Arzate Meléndez durante una conferencia de prensa.
context_page_description: The Villas de Salvárcar massacre occurred in Villas de Salvárcar, Ciudad Juárez on January 31, 2010, early in the morning. 15 young people died. Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera of the El Paso Times stated that the event "brought attention to the city's social problems" and "caused outrage in Mexico because of the brutality". People outside Mexico also expressed outrage about the crime. As a result, the federal government started the program "Todos Somos Juárez" to rejuvenate the city, and President of Mexico Felipe Calderón took additional measures against drug cartels. Lorena Figueroa of the El Paso Times stated that due to the "brutality" of the crime, "The massacre gave notoriety" to Villas de Salvárcar.
context_section_description: While on a trip to Japan, President of Mexico Felipe Calderón stated that the victims were gang members. He later retracted that claim after criticism from the victims' families.
  On Sunday March 14, 2010, Mexican authorities arrested the accused lookout, Heriberto Martinez. By March 21 of that year, the Mexican military arrested four more individuals.
  Israel Arzate Meléndez was arrested on February 3 and received torture until he falsely confessed involvement.
  José Dolores Arroyo Chavarría, Aldo Favio Hernández, Heriberto Martínez, and Juan Alfredo Soto Arias were convicted of the murders in July 2011.
  In 2012, Javier Hernández Valencia, the Mexico representative of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, stated that Arzate Meléndez had been tortured. On November 6, 2013, the Supreme Court of Mexico First Chamber ordered the release of Arzate Meléndez, who had been kept in pretrial isolation until that point.
  In 2012, Univision revealed that the guns used in the killings originated from Operation Fast and Furious.
caption: Israel Arzate Meléndez [es] was tortured into falsely confessing to the crime.
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