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Caribbean-Latin America
Nuevo Leon: Mexican Army Finds Mass Grave with 50 Dead -- UPDATED
2010-07-24
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Body count from 38 to 50 dead

Elements of the Mexican Army discovered a mass grave containing the remains of at least 50 individuals Thursday, according to Mexican press reports.

The discovery was made when the army was called to an area near the Monterrey-Reynosa highway in the Benito Juarez municipality (county). The bodies were all in graves in a three hectare area known as the Hacienda Calderon, a kilometer from Monterrey-Reynosa highway.

An additional gravesite was found Friday containing the remains of seven more individuals. Officials have say there may be more.

The dead include 36 men and two women, nearly all had tattoos and all had been shot. Officials said that the remains are no more than 15 days old. The graves were discovered when army patrols noticed poor attempts to camouflage the ground.
Posted by:badanov

#5  For a brief second one of the 3 letter beasts acknowledged the violence of Juarez, then fell off the wagon into the Mexico sux cuz its neighbor America sux rag. But for a second...
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-07-24 17:10  

#4  Good news: Red on Red
Bad news: Red teams think this is a manageable number of dead.
Posted by: gorb   2010-07-24 17:04  

#3  A Mexican law enforcement official has been charged in San Diego with using his position to help a drug cartel.

Jesus Quinones, a liaison to US authorities with the Baja California attorney general's office, was among 43 defendants named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday.

The U.S. attorney's office says Quinones arranged for rivals of the Arellano Felix cartel to be arrested by Mexican authorities. He also allegedly passed along classified intelligence to drug traffickers.

The announcement followed raids earlier in the day in which authorities arrested 31 of the defendants.

The complaint charges them with conspiracy to conduct a criminal enterprise through racketeering. It alleges the scheme included murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking, money laundering and robbery.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-07-24 12:02  

#2  It doesn't fit the SCM narrative. Otherwise, the 10 million illegals become war refugees. Refugees implies return. As refugees they'd be identified with formal documents, a item that even the UN recognizes. If they are expected to return, like Afghans are doing now, then they can't be granted amnesty to vote Donk.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-07-24 11:57  

#1  Drug gangs?

Wow if this were in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or a US ally like Columbia, you'd see daily headlines in the MSM.

Its a shame the dissolution in Mexico is being kept invisible by our press.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-07-24 10:01  

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