What appears to be a killing field used by a Mexican drug cartel has been discovered just south of Mexico’s border with Texas. This from westernjournal.com.
“The characteristics of the place allow the inference that it is an extermination site that has been used for years and until very recently, which will have to be confirmed by experts,” said a statement by Mexico’s National Search Commission, according to the Associated Press.
“This is the first site of these dimensions found in Nuevo Laredo,” the statement said.
The body dumping site was used by the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, according to Breitbart.
The area is near the Nuevo Laredo-Monterrey highway, which has been the site of numerous “disappearances since 2012,” the commission said.
In June, three members of a Texas family were kidnapped in the region, according to Breitbart.
Gladys Cristina Perez Sanchez, 39, was traveling with her 16-year-old son, Juan Carlos Gonzales, and her nine-year-old daughter, Cristina Duran when they disappeared.
Israel Garza, a relative of the family, said cartel gunmen had been stopping travelers along the highway, with reports of at least 71 people who have gone missing along this highway in recent months.
The FBI sought information about the missing family, according to Spectrum Local News.
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Karla Quintana, the head of the Mexican National Search Commission, said a “clandestine crematorium of considerable size” was found along with charred bone fragments, according to the AP.
Quintana said the facility had been set up many years ago but showed signs of recent use.
Angelica Orozco, of the group United Forces for Our Disappear, which includes families of those who went missing, said it was “very worrisome for us that the commission has come out with such alarmist statements without informing us.”
Quintana has said that turf battles between cartels could be linked to the disappearances, according to the AP.
This story makes travel to Mexico even less enticing, yes? The Mexican authorities must be struggling to solve these crimes as well as put an end to the cartel activities. But compounding that struggle would likely be Mexican politicians on the take from or being influenced by the cartels. Why else would such a problem go unsolved for so long?
Final thought: Perhaps this Killing Field, the Mexican cartels, and Mexico’s inability to effectively deal with these problems can be fairly compared to Washington D.C. and the democrat political party (and nearly all U.S. politicians who have been in D.C. for any length of time).
Both nations are powerless to solve their problems primarily because their politicians are either on the take, being blackmailed, or being physically threatened by the crime lords, and are unwilling or incapable of performing their duties in accordance with their oaths of office.
Sad but seemingly universal and impassable.
