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At cartel extermination site; Mexico nears 100k missing
The Columbian ^ | 6 March 2022 | MARÍA VERZA

Posted on 03/07/2022 9:18:12 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

For the investigators, the human foot — burned, but with some fabric still attached — was the tipoff: Until recently, this squat, ruined house was a place where bodies were ripped apart and incinerated, where the remains of some of Mexico’s missing multitudes were obliterated.

How many disappeared in this cartel “extermination site” on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, miles from the U.S. border? After six months of work, forensic technicians still don’t dare offer an estimate. In a single room, the compacted, burnt human remains and debris were nearly 2 feet deep.

Uncounted bone fragments were spread across 75,000 square feet of desert scrubland. Twisted wires, apparently used to tie the victims, lie scattered amid the scrub.

Each day, technicians place what they find — bones, buttons, earrings, scraps of clothing — in paper bags labeled with their contents: “Zone E, Point 53, Quadrant I. Bone fragments exposed to fire.”

They are sent off to the forensic lab in the state capital Ciudad Victoria, where boxes of paper bags wait their turn along with others. They will wait a long time; there are not enough resources and too many fragments, too many missing, too many dead.

At the Nuevo Laredo site — to which The Associated Press was given access this month — the insufficiency of investigations into Mexico’s nearly 100,000 disappearances is painfully evident. There are 52,000 unidentified people in morgues and cemeteries, not counting places like this one, where the charred remains are measured only by weight.

And people continue to disappear. And more remains are found.

“We take care of one case and 10 more arrive,” said Oswaldo Salinas, head of the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s identification team.

(Excerpt) Read more at columbian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: cartels; crime; mexico; murder; oswaldosalinas; tamaulipas
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Nobody seems to care....
1 posted on 03/07/2022 9:18:12 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: Erik Latranyi

This is what the Uniparty wants to turn the USA into with their open border policy.


2 posted on 03/07/2022 9:20:28 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Eventually the US may need to go into Mexico and clean things up if this stuff starts pouring over our border.


3 posted on 03/07/2022 9:21:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

It already is, in case you haven’t noticed.


4 posted on 03/07/2022 9:22:42 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Build the wall.


5 posted on 03/07/2022 9:24:43 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Erik Latranyi

No. No one seems to care.

There’s a lot of evil that happens in this world.

This evil right in our neighborhood hurts us more than anything in some European backwater.


6 posted on 03/07/2022 9:27:36 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Modern day Auschwitz ovens operating right next to our border and the Mexinazis have free reign to cross it any time, any where.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 9:28:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Cartels represent the worst in humanity. I wonder how many have died at the hands of cartel members. It has to number in the millions. At what point does the world step in and wage actual warfare against those channeling the worst atrocities of WW2? We have a true atrocity occurring in Mexico. Crimes against humanity. I care. Do you?


8 posted on 03/07/2022 9:29:26 AM PST by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: Sirius Lee; ifinnegan
Modern day Auschwitz ovens operating right next to our border and the Mexinazis have free reign to cross it any time, any where.

Can you blame Mexicans for wanting to escape the shiphole that their nation has become?

The US should be helping our southern neighbor instead of Ukraine. But that might stop the flow of donations from the cartels to our political class.

9 posted on 03/07/2022 9:30:12 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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Their great culture is seeping though our porous border. But hey, we need to spend billions protecting Ukraine’s border.


LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A New Mexico man who dodged a murder charge in 2017 is now accused of decapitating a man in a public park and using his head to play soccer in the street.

Joel Arciniega-Saenz, 25, of Las Cruces, was arrested Sunday night and charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 51-year-old James Garcia.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3970623/posts


10 posted on 03/07/2022 9:30:18 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yep.

Ukraine is nothing.


11 posted on 03/07/2022 9:30:55 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: refreshed
Cartels represent the worst in humanity. I wonder how many have died at the hands of cartel members. It has to number in the millions. At what point does the world step in and wage actual warfare against those channeling the worst atrocities of WW2? We have a true atrocity occurring in Mexico. Crimes against humanity. I care. Do you?

I suspect there is too much money flowing from the cartels into our elected leaders pockets.

12 posted on 03/07/2022 9:31:28 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: proust

Followup: he was out on bail later.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3973085/posts


13 posted on 03/07/2022 9:32:27 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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14 posted on 03/07/2022 9:33:02 AM PST by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: dfwgator

It would take a lot to “clean things up” down there. Mexican culture, for all its charm, is unbelievably corrupt and dysfunctional. Like our misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the goal would have to be to change that.


15 posted on 03/07/2022 9:33:57 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: dfwgator

I’ve thought that for a long time. Clean out the cartels. Mexico is an enemy, not a neighbor


16 posted on 03/07/2022 9:35:31 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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17 posted on 03/07/2022 9:35:51 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: dfwgator

Thousands are dead each year in the U.S. from fentanyl distributed by the cartels. At some point we’ll have to do something about it. I think the invasion and annexation of Northern Mexico is a possible solution, but we’ll need a great president with the resolve to save us before that happens.


18 posted on 03/07/2022 9:40:08 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: proust

Doesn’t Neil Young have a song about that?


19 posted on 03/07/2022 9:43:55 AM PST by norsky ( <P><img src=" "width=450"></img> <P> <a href= > </a> )
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To: dfwgator
"Eventually the US may need to go into Mexico and clean things up if this stuff starts pouring over our border."

The American military: killing our way to a better tomorrow!

20 posted on 03/07/2022 9:44:55 AM PST by WMarshal ("No war for communism"What a fan of the swap you are)
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