Thread: Death toll Rises to 72 in Mexico (Update, now 122)

Death toll rises to 72 in Mexico mass graves
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April 09, 2011 1:00 AM
The Associated Press

MATAMOROS, Mexico — Pablo Cote dialed his father’s cell phone for 24 hours after he failed to return from a business trip to San Fernando, a town near the U.S. border where the body count from 10 mass graves rose to 72 on Friday.

Finally a strange man answered: “Stop bothering me. He doesn’t have this phone anymore. If you keep bothering me, you’ll see what happens.â€

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Slaughter in San Fernando ... until authorities acknowledge that they found 72 corpses in narco graves
Friday April 8, 2011 |
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So far authorities say they have found a total of 72 bodies narcofosas (narco-graves) found in the state of Tamaulipas, in the meantime the bodies were found in the municipality of San Fernando are in the process of identification. Our sources are indicating that they are at least 75 people that stayed in the pits.

Canseco Jaime Gomez, Secretary General of the State Government of Tamaulipas, said that " Yesterday it was discovered two mass graves in a different location in the Municipality of San Fernando, not close to the Ejido of La Joya, where they found the first eight pits and that was that they could find 13 more bodies ".

Relatives of the missing bus passengers in Tamaulipas, remain in the facilities of the Forensic Medical Service, hoping to find among the bodies to their people.

Although authorities have said it will be until Monday when the people who came to Tamaulipas in several states of the Republic, to know whether their relatives are among the bodies found in narcofosas.

The case of narcofosas in San Fernando, has uncovered what she had wanted to keep hidden from the authorities, because since the year 2010 and to date, nine bus passengers have disappeared, right in the section of the municipality Tamaulipas.

This is a controversial figure, is it possible that the government can minimize the situation? Passengers are nine trucks, and nothing is known about them, no one did anything before " Why ? ", Claims the company.

Relatives of men, women, children and babies were missing other relevant reports, but does not explain the lack of commitment by the authorities, who claimed that the facts were known.

Sources say the missing are from states like San Luis Potosi, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, among others. They were on ADO bus line, bus, and more.

Transport not know anything missing, ie people disappeared along with the buses, there is no doubt that the state of Tamaulipas has been one of the most affected by terrorist acts carried out by members of criminal groups.







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what is sad is that this is the second time in a year that this same area has been the sight of a mass killing like this.

The Zetas are responsible for the slaughter in San Fernando
Friday April 8, 2011

The Attorney General's Office issued a statement regarding the 14 arrested for the slaughter of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, noting that the perpetrators are members of the criminal group known as Los Zetas.

The discovery of 72 corpses (as they have been officially released) in several narcofosas (narco graves), has generated a great demand by the population, as it is very probable that the bodies belong to passengers who have gone nine buses recent dates.

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Suspect in kidnappings leads police to 16 corpses
Associated Press
April 11, 2011, 10:48AM


MEXICO CITY — Authorities say a suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers near the U.S. border has led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 corpses.

The latest discovery brings the total number of bodies found this month in a series of mass graves to 88.

Investigators are working to identify the bodies, one of which may belong to a missing U.S. citizen who authorities have said was on one of the buses.

The Mexican Defense Department said in a statement Sunday that the suspect told soldiers he had helped kidnap passengers on March 24 and March 29 in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

The statement said that he also confessed to killing and burying 43 people found in pits last week.

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Zetas may be to blame for San Fernando massacre
April 11, 2011 2:13 PM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 bodies, bringing to 88 the number of corpses found in mass pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

The latest batch of bodies was found in four pits in San Fernando, where prosecutors had previously found 72 corpses in 10 pits, the Defense Department said in a statement Sunday.

When detained, Armando Morales Uscanga had a rifle and almost $3,000 in cash, the statement said, adding that he told soldiers he had participated in kidnapping passengers on March 24 and 29.

He also said he had helped kill and bury 43 people found in pits April 6.

San Fernando is on a well-traveled stretch of highway and in an area regularly patrolled by the Mexican military.

It was the second-such gruesome find in less than a year: In August, investigators found the bodies of 72 migrants in San Fernando.

Federal authorities said they are holding 14 people — 12 men and two women — as suspects in the latest case.

The federal Attorney General's Office said there was evidence that most of the suspects belonged to the Zetas drug gang, the same group blamed for the August massacre. Some were detained with military-style uniforms, and others were found driving a pickup truck displaying false Mexican navy insignia.

The Zetas and rival Gulf Cartel are fighting in Tamaulipas over lucrative drug transit routes to the U.S. The state shares three major border cities with Brownsville, Laredo, and McAllen. Prosecutors say the kidnappings may have been part of a forced-recruitment effort by the Zetas gang.

Dozens of families and passengers complained of gunmen pulling people, mostly young men, off intercity travel buses starting in late March, leading investigators to last week's grisly discovery.

Authorities are working to identify the bodies, one of which may belong to a U.S. citizen, through DNA samples and other techniques.

A warden's message posted on the website of the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros on Sunday said that a U.S. citizen was among dozens of men who witnesses said were pulled off passenger buses by armed attackers in Tamaulipas.

The statement did not say exactly when or where the man went missing.


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Body count continues to rise
April 11, 2011 9:50 PM
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD

Sixteen suspects have now been detained in connection with the mass gravesite discovered last week in the Mexican city of San Fernando.

The clandestine gravesites were discovered early last week in the La Joya ranching community near San Fernando.

The Mexican Attorney General’s Office, or Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR), said Monday that 88 bodies have been uncovered at the site, approximately 80 miles from Brownsville.

Sources close to the investigation say that the total number of victims could reach 100. The victims are believed to have been traveling in buses in Mexico and had been headed to the U.S. border.

“It’s horrific. It is unimaginable. The way they were killed was barbaric,â€

Mexico finds 28 more bodies in border pits
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April 12, 2011 4:11 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's attorney general says a total of 116 bodies have been recovered from pits near the U.S. border. That is 28 more than previously reported.

Attorney General Marisela Morales says a total of 17 suspects have been detained in relation to the killings in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

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Death toll rises in San Fernando massacre
April 12, 2011 4:16 PM
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD

The number of victims found in graves site near San Fernando, Tamaulipas has risen to 128, The Brownsville Herald learned.

"I understand that 40 more bodies were found," Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr. said of what he has learned from his sources.

The Mexican Attorney General’s Office, or Procuraduria General de la Republica, said Monday that 88 bodies had been uncovered at the site, approximately 80 miles south of Brownsville.

The victims are believed to have been traveling in buses in Mexico and had been headed to the U.S. border.

Herald sources said earlier in the week that the number of victims could be at least 100.

Ahumada said that his sources also suggest that the body count has been under-reported.

The U.S. Consulate Office in Matamoros issued an advisory Friday that a U.S. citizen was removed by force from a bus while traveling in Mexico from late March to early April.

The consulate’s office said Monday that a U.S. citizen has not been among the victims identified thus far.

Authorities are working to identify the bodies, one of which may belong to a U.S. citizen, through DNA samples and other techniques.

One of the bodies is a Guatemalan man, the government of that Central American nation said.

The victim has been identified as Feliciano Tagual Ovalle, 44, the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Monday. The statement did not say whether the man was a migrant passing through or a resident of Mexico. It said the Guatemalan government planned to bring the body home.

Mexican authorities confirmed one victim was Guatemalan and said another was a man from central Mexico. Mexican prosecutors had previously said most of the bodies were probably Mexican citizens.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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