Mass Secret Grave In Eastern Mexico Could Be Country's Largest, Official Says
with the complicity of the government
Fido969 wrote:
The same people who are telling us how to run our country.
Posted on 03/14/2017 12:48:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Bodies are still being recovered from a clandestine grave in Mexico's Veracruz state that a local prosecutor says could turn out to be the largest in the country. Jorge Winckler Ortiz, the state attorney general of Veracruz, says that at one large site, 250 skulls have been found, with more excavation to be done.
Winckler says the bodies are those of people murdered by gangs, with the complicity of the government. He added that officials had also deceived families who asked for help in identifying whether their missing loved ones might be in the graves.
"Veracruz is a huge grave, when they finish opening the clandestine cemetery in the state it will be seen as the largest grave," Winckler said on the Televisa network, "because for years organized crime has disappeared and murdered people with the complicity of the authorities."
The comments represent the most direct official acknowledgement of the scope of mass graves in Veracruz, the Gulf coast state east of Mexico City that has been a stronghold of the brutal Zetas cartel.
As NPR's Carrie Kahn reported last fall, relatives of people who've gone missing during Mexico's drug wars have grown impatient in Veracruz. As the government failed to act, mothers and other family members took on the grisly task of recovering bodies from mass graves.
From Carrie's report:
"Government officials put the number of Mexico's missing at around 28,000. Some were crime gang members, others just caught up in the violence and associated corruption. However, two years ago, the case of 43 students kidnapped and presumably murdered in Guerrero awoke the nation to the plight of the missing and sparked a movement by relatives searching for clandestine graves.
"Groups have formed in several Mexican states. In Veracruz, the mothers have unearthed nearly 100 graves. Authorities removed 42 bodies so far. And by the time they get through all the graves, it's estimated that as many as 400 bodies may be found, the largest discovery of its kind in Mexico."
The authorities in Veracruz no longer include its former governor, Javier Duarte, who led the state for eight problem-plagued years but is now living as a fugitive. Shortly after he resigned his post in October, a warrant was issued for Duarte's arrest on charges of racketeering and money-laundering. He's accused of diverting millions of dollars in public funds to bogus shell companies.
In December, Winckler was elected to serve as the top prosecutor in Veracruz through 2025.
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Just 12 seconds faster, and you would have beaten yourself posting this.
Better luck next time.
“:^)
No wonder the illegal alien invaders want to leave that crappy country. However, tough luck...send them back!
The same people who are telling us how to run our country.
Fast and Furious?
I agree with that. It’s not good down there.
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind seeing the U. S. work with the Mexican government to clean the place up down there.
It’s a blight on Mexico and it’s one that’s on our door-step.
It causes us problems in the U. S.
Mass Secret Grave In Eastern Mexico Could Be Country's Largest, Official Says
with the complicity of the government
Fido969 wrote:
The same people who are telling us how to run our country.
I have had a soft spot in my heart for the people of Mexico, who deserve better than the government they have.
I didn’t address this in my post just now, but they deserve a peaceful society to thrive in.
The corruption has got to go.
Yes, I rail on the illegals in our nation. That’s just part of the problem though, and in Mexico changed need to take place. NOW!
This is why we need a wall. And stop allowing them through and then detaining them on this side! That’s just F’ing NUTS. Let them stack up on their side.
Mexico’s genocide of the underclass, getting rid of the Amerindians.
There’s a valid argument to be made that if we truly are morally obligated as Americans to take in as many Mexican economic and violence refugees that we have the same moral obligation to invade and control.
However, two years ago, the case of 43 students kidnapped and presumably murdered in Guerrero ...
Lets jus correct that heap of bovine excrement.
However, two years ago, the case of 43 students masked rioters kidnapped and presumably murdered in Guerrero...
Lets not mix in the violent factions with the innocent victims okay? Those "Students" fully earned what they got, and if the violence escalates here in the united states the rioters here will also have earned what they are going to get.
So now there’s a new tourist destination for stupid Americans that spend their vacation dollars south of the border.
See the pit at Vera Cruz; all inclusive three-day tours aboard semi-modern motor coaches owned and operated by Cartels Hotels International. AAA Approved. AARP Discounts.
The wall should accelerate the revolution needed in Mexico!!! They need a civil war!! If they keep coming here, WE need a civil war!
The government has also participated in many massacres. One of those inconvenient truths they don’t want you to know about our Southern Neighbor.
The Mexican Government is a big part of the problem.
I agree with that, and I alluded to it in a follow-up post, a few posts down the thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3534680/posts?page=10#10
There are between 3 and ten thousand graves of soldiers within the city limits of Corinth, Mississippi, unmarked. Historical accounts describe pits full of dead bodies before, during and after the Battles of Shiloh and Corinth.
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