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Convictions in Mexico fail to quell demands for justice in massacres of migrants
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Convictions in Mexico fail to quell demands for justice in massacres of migrants

LA Times  

Activists place an “anti-monument” outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City in 2020 to mark the 10th anniversary of the San Fernando massacres. “The government plan for years has been to render these criminal acts and extreme violations of human rights as invisible as possible.” The protracted episode has been “shameful,” said Marcela Turati, a Mexican journalist whose book “San …

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Truck filled with dead bodies dumped next to Christmas tree outside Mexican governor’s office
3 years, 2 months ago

Truck filled with dead bodies dumped next to Christmas tree outside Mexican governor’s office

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In a grim scene …

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Mexico: 18 bodies found after suspected drug cartel gun battle
3 years, 8 months ago

Mexico: 18 bodies found after suspected drug cartel gun battle

Al Jazeera  

The bullet-ridden bodies of 18 men were discovered in Zacatecas state after apparent confrontation between suspected cartels. The bullet-ridden bodies of 18 men were discovered after an apparent gun battle between suspected drug cartels in Zacatecas state in northern Mexico, authorities said on Friday. “There were 18 dead, and the confrontation occurred in the community of San Juan Capistrano, in …

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Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants
4 years ago

Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants

Associated Press  

COMITANCILLO, Guatemala — Families of some of the 16 Guatemalan migrants killed near the Mexico-U.S. border in late January began burying their remains Saturday in the town of Comitancillo, where 11 of the victims were from. The migrants’ charred bodies arrived Friday night to the region near Guatemala’s border with Mexico after being sent from the other side of Mexico, …

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Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants
4 years ago

Families begin burying murdered Guatemalan migrants

The Independent  

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Mexico: Local police involved in 2011 migrant massacres
10 years, 2 months ago

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 …

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Mexico cartel war latest toll: 49 headless bodies
12 years, 10 months ago

Mexico cartel war latest toll: 49 headless bodies

Associated Press  

CADEREYTA, Mexico — Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodbath along with gang rivals. Mexico’s interior secretary, Alejandro Poire, said Monday that all …

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49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway
12 years, 10 months ago

49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway

Firstpost  

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels. Monterrey, Mexico: Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a …

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Three journalists slain in Mexico’s Veracruz
12 years, 10 months ago

Three journalists slain in Mexico’s Veracruz

Al Jazeera  

Photojournalists found slain and dumped in plastic bags, less than a week after the killing of another journalist. Signs of torture The latest killings came in Boca del Rio, a town near the port city of Veracruz where police found the bodies of four people on Thursday after passers-by spotted four suspicious black plastic bags in a wastewater canal, the …

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Mexico gang leader ‘captured over killings’
13 years, 10 months ago

Mexico gang leader ‘captured over killings’

Al Jazeera  

A member of the powerful Zetas gang cartel arrested in connection with the deaths of more than 140 people. The number of bodies found in mass graves has risen steadily in Mexico’s escalating drug war The Mexican Navy has said it has captured a suspected leader of the Zetas drug gang allegedly behind the mass killings of more than 100 …

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Mexico marines find 72 bodies at ranch, navy says
14 years, 6 months ago

Mexico marines find 72 bodies at ranch, navy says

LA Times  

Mexican marines searching a ranch in northern Mexico found the bodies of 72 people who may have been Central and South American migrants kidnapped by the Zetas drug gang, authorities said Wednesday. Officials said the corpses of 58 men and 14 women were found Tuesday after a daylong search of a rural swath about 90 miles south of Texas in …

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