Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Mexico digs up 120 corpses of several graves in Tamaulipas

A total of 120 bodies have been exhumed from several mass of the state of Tamaulipas on the Gulf of Mexico coast and border with the U.S.. The first bodies were found last week and since then the figure has not stopped growing, according to the agency Efe. The discovery was made in the municipality of San Fernando, the same last August which showed the bodies of 72 migrants centromericanos and South America.

The researchers with the pits after receiving several complaints about the abduction of people traveling on buses bound for the city of Reynosa on the border with the United States, between 19 and 31 March. Most of the deaths are of Mexican nationality, according to AFP, although DNA tests have found the body of a Guatemalan.

The Attorney General (the national equivalent to the prosecution) to the crime attributed to the cartel Los Zetas, and has reported the arrest of 17 people for alleged involvement in the case. The Interior Minister, Francis Blake, announced the Government's intention to maintain the deployment of agents in the area "to detain all criminals" involved and restore security to the local police can take charge.

Blake has secured evidence that the event "the fragility of local institutions" to deal effectively with crime, and has ensured that local security officers are involved in the crime. Tamaulipas, a northeastern state, which borders the U.S., is the scene since late 2009 of a war between drug cartels in the Gulf and Los Zetas, who formerly were allies.

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