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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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To: dfwgator

That “cartel stuff” has been operating on our side of the border for years. We should send in the Delta team to raid and kill specific targets like that New Generation Jalisco Cartel. Take them out like Seal Team 6 took out Osama Bin Laden and left and carried his dead body back to base. We do not want to occupy Mexico. If the U.S, did that I bet that 90% of the Mexican people would approve.


21 posted on 03/07/2022 9:47:07 AM PST by forgotten man
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To: Erik Latranyi

A drug cartel killed 100K people?


22 posted on 03/07/2022 9:48:53 AM PST by xxqqzz
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To: forgotten man

We do not want to occupy Mexico. If the U.S, did that I bet that 90% of the Mexican people would approve.
***Set up a 100 mile buffer between USA and the Narco Mexico state, intercepting Illegal colonizers and drug dealers before they ever set foot on USA soil. Take a referendum every decade among the Mehican people to see how far down that buffer zone should be, expand it when they vote for it and contract it when they vote for it.

Make it a 100 mile wide Trump Wall.


23 posted on 03/07/2022 9:50:51 AM PST by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: Deo volente

I lost a nephew three years ago to fentanyl. Devastating. Such a loss. Nothing is being done about this. Border wide open. One has to ask why? It’s not just about votes. If the elite will sacrifice lives for their job, how dangerous are they?


24 posted on 03/07/2022 10:01:37 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: refreshed
At what point does the world step in and wage actual warfare against those channeling the worst atrocities of WW2?

At the point where the gravy train stops, world leaders stop getting their 10%, and black ops agencies around the world stop getting off budget funding.

Any questions?

25 posted on 03/07/2022 10:02:07 AM PST by null and void (Just because I speak English does not make me a Subject of the English Crown)
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To: xxqqzz
A drug cartel killed 100K people?

No, several drug cartels killed 100k people.

26 posted on 03/07/2022 10:04:08 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: norsky

Neil has a talent for picking the wrong sides.


27 posted on 03/07/2022 10:05:02 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

Unasked question. 100K. How many are Mexicans? Is it mostly Guatemalans, Salvadorans, or Hondurans?


28 posted on 03/07/2022 10:11:53 AM PST by null and void (Just because I speak English does not make me a Subject of the English Crown)
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To: forgotten man
"We should send in the Delta team to raid and kill specific targets like that New Generation Jalisco Cartel. Take them out like Seal Team 6 took out Osama Bin Laden and left and carried his dead body back to base .... If the U.S, did that I bet that 90% of the Mexican people would approve."

It's interesting. At their kitchen tables, I believe you're right, 90% would approve, but in public they would be outraged.

29 posted on 03/07/2022 10:17:28 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: Erik Latranyi
Have read they are employing ISIS and Middle Eastern Terrorists.

But Mexico has had a dark evil side since the Aztec and Inca's were in control.

Human sacrifices were common.

30 posted on 03/07/2022 10:33:17 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: xenia

We would not vote to give up our sovereignty and subsume the USA to the UN in a New World Order, so they are importing people who will.


31 posted on 03/07/2022 10:35:52 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: dfwgator

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

Didn’t you hear, Biden moved the Southern U. S. border with Mexico to 49 degrees north latitude. So if you are living south of this, you are now living in Mexico.


32 posted on 03/07/2022 10:37:33 AM PST by RouxStir (No Peein' in the Gene Pool)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Read it now, witness it later if control doesn't get taken from obamahoods.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2022/02/mexican-cartel-forces-its-recruits-to.html

33 posted on 03/07/2022 10:50:36 AM PST by MurrietaMadman (Keep in mind, the Gates of hell shall not prevail against you/a>.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yeah lets keep importing this culture.


34 posted on 03/07/2022 10:53:50 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: MurrietaMadman

The sad part is it is not just obamahoods, it’s also Bush League Republicans like Amnesty Senators Micro Rubio and John Hoeven, who should be primaried out of office this year.


35 posted on 03/07/2022 11:00:13 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

It is getting difficult to pretend there is civilization on this planet.


36 posted on 03/07/2022 11:01:18 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Erik Latranyi

Presumably those cartels are financing politicians and officials on both sides of the border, with more blatant corruption to the south.


37 posted on 03/07/2022 11:01:33 AM PST by xxqqzz
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To: xenia
Why, you ask? Because the objective of world leaders is to normalize the lives of all citizens to the lowest common denominator, rather than the highest. They assume that there are not enough natural resources to bring everyone up.

Eventually all borders will be erased and there will be a single world government. We are entering the final stages of that consolidation.

38 posted on 03/07/2022 11:07:02 AM PST by GingisK
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To: dfwgator

I think it already has.


39 posted on 03/07/2022 11:13:57 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

If ever there was an article for the 2nd amendment ping, this is it.


40 posted on 03/07/2022 11:17:52 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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