The American authorities found two Americans dead and returned to others after a kidnapping.

Some Mexicans are saying their government doesn't try so hard to rescue them.

They don't care about what is happening in the country.

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Mexican authorities have found four American kidnapping victims to or alive to our dead.

The Americans were friends who crossed the border to Mexico where Juan expected to get cosmetic surgery.

Instead they stumbled into gunfire last week which the Associated Press described as a drug cartel shoot out.

Kidnappers hauled the four into a truck.

Then after days of searching authorities found them in a wooden shack.

Mexicans are asking how this happened and also why kidnappings happen so often.

NPR's Ador Paralta has been following this story from Mexico City.

Ador any word on the two survivors and on finding the people who did this?

Yeah, local media are reporting that the two survivors are at a hospital in Brownsville, Texas.

Mexican authorities said that the woman was not injured and the man had an injury to his left leg

which was not life threatening.

Mexicans have made only one arrest.

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