A 14-year-old boy last seen in a kidnap video is among the 11 found dead in southern Mexico
Associated PressMEXICO CITY — Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south. The boy’s family was traveling on Oct. 21 to Chilapa to sell their stock of plastic household items — buckets, dishes and other containers — at an open-air market when they were abducted by The Ardillos, a local cartel that controls Chilapa and has been fighting the rival Tlacos for control of Chilpancingo. “The state authorities have allowed these organized crime groups to gain very deeply rooted control of these areas,” an activist of the human rights group Tlachinollan said on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals. The rights activist explained that the Ardillos control a large swath of the state’s mountains, where they call obligatory community assemblies and force local residents to cooperate with the gang.
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