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Although such disappearances were once associated with the state, especially Mexico’s secret police, in recent decades the tactic has become a tool of cartels to exert control through terror.

We had to operate carefully, because the country is riddled with informers and secret police who spy on their own people for the ruling military junta.

“I’m Still Here” travels us to groovy 1970s Rio de Janeiro to befriend a wealthy, loving family who throw their mansion’s doors open for everyone, until the new regime’s secret police barge inside.

The secret police had picked him up because he had gone to a pro-democracy demonstration.

A Manhattan resident has pleaded guilty to helping establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government.