Mexico: Local police involved in 2011 migrant massacres
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Mexico: Local police involved in 2011 migrant massacres

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Local police in the city of San Fernando in northern Mexico were involved in the 2011 massacres of 193 mainly Central American migrants whose bodies were found in mass graves, according to federal prosecutors. In San Fernando, a city of 60,000 inhabitants in Tamaulipas state near the Texas border, local police worked as lookouts for the brutal Zetas drug cartel, as well as turning a blind eye to cartel activity, according to members of the Zetas cited in the memo. In the memo, detained Zetas told authorities that local police helped in the “intercepting of people.” This is the first time the Attorney General’s Office has declassified documents related to the mass killings of migrants in northern Mexico in recent years. The group’s director, Ana Lorena Delgadillo, told The Associated Press that the memo confirms “the degree of participation by the police.” “This is a very important step toward finding the truth,” said Delgadillo, lamenting that the declassified memo didn’t give much more information than that 18 local police officers were being investigated.

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