Macabre discovery in Mexico. A collective specializing in the search for missing persons has discovered at least 22 bodies in clandestine graves located in Reynosa in the Northeast of the American country, near the border with the United States. The authorities provided this information on Monday, July 17.
“They found several graves, 12 in total, with 22 bodies,” said Jorge Cuellar, security spokesman for Tamaulipas state, where Reynosa is located. The discovery was made and reported by the collective Love for the Disappeared of Tamaulipas, a border region of the United States affected by violence linked to organized crime. Mr Cuellar added that the local prosecutor’s office was in charge of the investigation and that the final number of bodies would be communicated afterwards.
The majority of the bones found remained underground for 10 and 14 months, he said. Driven by despair and the lack of results from the investigations, the families of the disappeared sometimes set out themselves in search of their loved ones, most often in inhospitable areas. The state of Tamaulipas is the scene of permanent clashes between criminal organizations fighting over the drug routes.
In March, four Americans taken for drug traffickers were kidnapped in Matamoros. With some 13,000 wanted notices, this state is the second in the number of missing people in all of Mexico, behind that of Jalisco, which has 14,987. human tragedy” by the UN.
Also, 350,000 murders have been recorded in Mexico since the launch in December 2006 of a military war on drugs, the majority attributed to criminal groups.
