Over Fifty Bodies (Likely Drug Gang Victims) Found in Mexico Mass Grave
- Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:02am by
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said.
Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims.
Then they made a grisly discovery – a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead.
The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers who were reportedly abducted March 25, the Tamaulipas state government said in statement in which it “energetically condemned” the crimes.
The statement did not identify what drug gang, if any, that the 11 arrested suspects belonged to, or why they might have hijacked the bus.
President Felipe Calderon’s office issued a statement saying the find “underlines the cowardliness and total lack of scruples of the criminal organizations that cause violence in our country.”
While there was no immediate confirmation that a drug cartel was involved, officials refer to the cartels as “criminal organizations.”
The statement said Calderon had ordered federal officials to help in the investigation, and particularly in the work of identifying the victims.
The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found shot to death Aug. 24 at a ranch.
The area is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border at Brownsville, Texas.
Authorities blamed that massacre on the Zetas drug gang, which is fighting its one-time allies in the Gulf cartel for control of the region.
The victims in the August massacre were illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil. An Ecuadorean and Honduran survived the attack, which Mexican authorities say occurred after the migrants refused to work for the cartel.
Mexican drug cartels have taken to recruiting migrants, common criminals and youths, Mexican authorities say.
It was unclear if the victims found Wednesday were migrants. Migrants frequently travel by bus in Mexico/
But drug gunmen also operate kidnapping rings, and erect roadblocks on highways in Tamaulipas and other northern states, where they hijack vehicles and rob and sometimes kill passengers.
San Fernando is on a major highway that leads to the U.S. border.
Drug gangs across Mexico also sometimes use mass graves to dispose of the bodies of executed rivals.
The wave of drug-related killings – which has claimed more than 34,000 lives in the four years since the government launched an offensive against drug cartels – drew thousands of protesters into the streets of Mexico’s capital and several other cities Wednesday in marches against violence.
Many of the protesters said the government offensive has stirred up the violence.
“We need to end this war, because it is a senseless war that the government started,” said protester Alma Lilia Roura, 60, an art historian.
Several thousand people joined the demonstration in downtown Mexico City, chanting “No More Blood!“ and ”Not One More!” A similar number marched through the southern city of Cuernavaca.
Parents marched with toddlers, and protesters held up signs highlighting the disproportionate toll among the nation’s youth. “Today a student, tomorrow a corpse,” read one sign carried by demonstrators.
The marches were spurred in part by the March 28 killing of Juan Francisco Sicilia, the son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, and six other people in Cuernavaca.
“We are putting pressure on the government, because this can’t go on,” said the elder Sicilia. “It seems that we are like animals that can be murdered with impunity.”
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miles from nowhere
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:03pmThis is what the drug cartel does best, they are like wild animals that just like to kill. Our bleeding heart society can not wait to have them in this country to kill our citizens. Ignorant Americans are allowing them in and right now the ones responsible are in political power, because it is more important to have there vote then it is your safety.
Report Post »fedlibertarian
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 10:34amAren‘t the cartels doing the job our Border Patrol won’t?
Report Post »krenshau
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 10:08amOne thing would solve this problem: arming the civilian population. Imagine if a bus load of people opened up on their potential kidnappers. Imagine potential murderers being shot to death as they arrived at a birthday party with the intent to kill everyone. We should be arming the Mexican civilians.Mexico is proof that gun control does not help prevent crime. Appeasing criminals will never keep them from committing crimes.
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 9:49amMexico has become a third world, disgusting country run by thugs who intimidate or kill their opponents at will without government interference. Mexico wants an open border with America, mexico is not America , yet it has a fence along it’s southern border to prevent Guatamalans from entering. The police in Mexico abuse illegals in their country by using them as drug carriers, gun runners, extort them, rape them largely unreported. These are the people who are infesting our country because we demand legal immigration ONLY. We have excellent legal immigrants from Mexico and South America but we will lose our country if we follow the Soros/Obama plan for open borders. We as responsible citizens must aweaken to the threat worldwide of chaos caused by the progressives of the world.
Report Post »bew0576
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 8:50amI thought Napolitano said our borders are safe. I think her office should be moved to the border and she shouldn’t be allowed any security and then have her come out and give a news conference. Oh wait, she couldn’t – she’d be dead!
Report Post »alina.bolero
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 8:40ammy recipe for the future …
1) abolish the income tax
2) apply a federal sales tax to ALL sales of goods and services and financial transactions
3) make drugs legal in the U.S.
4) secure the borders
5) apply high tariffs to imported goods (very high for imported drugs)
The drug lords would not be able to survive.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 8:19amMexico? Where’s Mexico? OH, it is the BANANA REPUBLIC just south of the American border. The drug capitol of the western hemisphere. Calderon in bed with BHO, BHO in bed with Calderon, liberal in bed with liberal – - – drug violence – - – coming to your hometown soon. Remember BIG SIS is in charge of security – - – “we are now safer than we ever were” – - – YEAH RIGHT!
Report Post »iamthelucid1
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 7:36amLets return the favor!
REALLY!
The answer to 1984 is 1776!
SUA SPONTE!
Report Post »lot21
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 7:35amThe war on drugs has been a disaster.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 7:35ami hate to sound heartless but the Mexican Government WANTS this to go on.. I think they get drug kick backs.. Bring home our troops from the middle east put ALL Of DC on the border and CUT the budget by 40-60%
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:14amIn mid 1980′s a MASS GRAVE was found in Matamoras, Mexico – right across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
It was all American students and tourists – who had disappeared.
Mexico is over-run by SAVAGES.
Usurper President Obama/Soetoro is more concerned about taking military action in Lybia – than Mexico – regardless of the US citizens killed in cold-blood – on US soil – by people entering our country illegally = collateral damage to his intended invasion.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:10amthey found 72 dead in the same area last summer, what took so long in checking there again ,i don’t know say everyday?????what a bunch of worthless cowards to kill some .we just hope that they were not killed with those government sponsored guns, you know the ones that obama and his commie buddies gave to the drug dealers just to set up law abiding american gun owners!!! anyone involved with letting those guns get over the boarder,should be held for murder and treason .
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:09amPresident Calderon – the Mexican puppet – knows the amount of the BOLD killings from the drug wars – are criminal organizations.
But yet, He determines that our ICE agents – are to be unarmed – while assisting him in Mexico – with the drug wars.
Thanks Calderon – for assisting the Usurper – to place US citizens in position to not be able to defend themselves against being killed – and placing everyone in further jeopardy.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:17amHey Big Sis…bet this helps the sleeping habits of AZ and other southern border states!
I forgot you already complied with the possible govt shutdown and stop funding border patrols for the real citizens of the United States couple of years ago…spent the money checking our junk instead!
Report Post »checkit
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 3:57amSo? Why are we in Libya?? Oh yea humanatarin help to stop the killings.
So they sit out the lie and the left buys it… But 1000 die in one day in the Ivory Coast, do you see any American tomahawks or obama ordering carriers there?
10 times the deaths than Libya… on our own Mexican border and in Mexico, and no tomahawks or no fly zones? Sudan? Iran? Syria? etc…
What was the National Security risk in Libya? How much is this costing? 40 Million a day?
Egypt (El Baradai) now threatening to attack Israel if Israel attacks gaza… Is there real plan to setup a surrounding of Anti-Israeli nations around Israel? What other reason are we in Libya?
Thier claims of humanatarin aide to Libya, has been clearly proven to be a lie.
Where are the code pukes protesting war, or any of the left protesting?
The hypocrits couldn’t be more obvious.
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:01amWait till the rest of the world uses this Responsibility to Protect Doctrine against us! Human Rights of Immigrants pouring accross the border could trigger it in the foreseeable future.
Obama or some other lefty could even apologize for the behavior of “Rogue” states and REQUEST UN “help”.
I hate the world with a weak USA.
Report Post »Arc
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:35amContinual Siesta in the Mexican Government. No Sincerity, No Sense of Purpose, Incapable of Adequately addressing their internal problems so they relax their Exit Visa programs and encourage migration to the north. They are well aware of the consequences of attacking the cartels, so they sit back, accept graft and go to Can Cun/Aucapulco/Cabo every week end. Soon, apathy will rule the Border Patrol and Central America will migrate north along with the drug cartels. By the year 2020, internal decay will render the United States powerless and beyond the point of reclamation. The migration will continue northward until Canada is consumed. The desire to work hard, build your own company and resurrect your country will have gone the way of the nanny state. Any government that exists will have to threaten any workers to produce enough to sustain a faltering country. The labor unions will rise up and threaten to strike if some one doesn’t start to GIVE A DAMN.
Report Post »Ledger
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 4:17amChina solved it’s centuries old problem with opium dens sapping the wealth and productivity of the country by executing opium addicts. Soon, the addicts were dead or the natural survival instincts kicked in with anyone who could stop using, and the problem was solved. Of course we are too humane to do such a thing, but we could make a deal with Mexico. They could take our drug users and addicts that provide a market for the drug cartels and do with them what they will, and we will take all of their hard working people who are just trying to better their lives by escaping Mexico and getting American jobs. I could agree to a quick path to citizenship for those hard workers. We don’t need anymore welfare parasites or drug addicts, but we can use all of the hard working people dreaming of a better life that we can get.
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:44amDream on Leger, though I agree with you…
That is NOT the plan of the Elites. They hate the constitution, so they are desperate to dilute the population of people who defend it with others who have no appreciation of its history, or any organic connection with its benefits.
We will be outvoted sooner or later. John McCain is one of the biggest enemies of state on this count!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform “MY FRIENDS” (McCain voice) would have led to Civil War within a decade or less of its passage because of its provisions limiting the government to 24 hours to find a reason to reject a applicants Z-Visa, compounded with the window of opportunity to submit an application being held open for a whole damn year (imagine how many would flood in and miraculously find work documentation for a hundred bucks confirming their presence in the country for the specified time), compounded yet again with the chain migration provision allowing the z-visa applicant to transplant not only immediate family but EXTENDED family as well.
Heritage ran the numbers assuming ONLY 12 million applying for the z-visa and said that within 15 years it could balloon up to 80 or 120 million!
That is a perfect opportunity for the likes of our friends LA RAZA to declare themselves a political party and become the leaders with a party “mas reprentativo” of the language and culture of the newly minted “Americans”.
I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR JOHN MCCAIN AS A RESULT. NOR OF BUSH. They quite nearly pushed the country to a quick suicide.
Report Post »boston-rightwinger
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:28amdo you remember when the people on the left would boycott companies such as Coke because they did business in South Africa and South Africa had bad policies. In Mexico the drug lords kill people like they were chickens headed for the corner Kentucky Fried. Do you think the left will give up their drugs? Is Obama truthful?
Report Post »tnturner
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:24amDid I read that correctly that the Mexican people want the government to stop fighting the cartels? To stop the violence? Are the liberals there already?
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:29amRemember how the People of Spain reacted to the Madrid Rail bombings? They all poured out into the streets by the hundreds of thousands that weekend, and then the next day in their elections they threw out the tough against terrorists Jose Maria Aznar, and put in the weak Socialists Zapatero.
That gives me some reason to believe that something in the character of the Spaniards makes them back down to a threat before rising up and challenging it. May explain why the muslims took over and occupied Spain in the past.
And the Meso-American experience was one of whoever had the force of character to fight, his tribe would dominate the others, and people would copt to the new order for a few generations.
Mexicans are very proud, but I don’t see much hope of them staring down the assaults on their society successfully.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:24amAren’t we glad that the border is safer than it has ever been? Thank you, Janet for that accurate report!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:01amIf they are safer it’s because most are dead. Maybe we should put Ms. Janet on the border, that should scare the bad guys away.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:17amShocking! Outrageous! Condemned in the strictest terms! Oh wait, daily occurrence.
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 3:43amnothing to see here folks. the libs just sent me a mind meld message to share with you . ” everything is ok. go back to sleep. the terrorist and drug cartels are only an illusion.: there now . all better.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:08amFuture of America coming to your neighborhood. Way to go Liberals.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:04amWhy does La Raza want to take the western states and give them to Mexico? If they did look what it would become. Why aren’t Mexican people wanting to have the US take Mexico and clean it up? Then no one would have to move. We could bring all our troups home and fight the plague to the south and everyone would be safer.
Report Post »MidwestConservativeCoalition
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:03amOh I hope America embraces this sweet sweet culture soon. Your all racists. (sarcasm)
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:54amMexican officials used to treat the drug traffic like a big joke. Just put a few dollars in the hands of the Police and the Local/State/Federal Politicians and you were good to go.
Too bad the rule of law was not a defining characteristic of their society. They may have avoided a lot of this if playing by the rules had been the order of the day for the majority.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:53amObama is on a mission to bring all these Mexicans to America, is this the America we really want?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:10amYep along with radical islam & communism this is the real fundamental change for America .
Report Post »needanotherReagan
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:50amI wonder how many of the 59 were killed with guns provided by project gunrunner.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 12:53amofficials refer to the cartels as “criminal organizations.”
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“criminal organizations”
is that mehican for
“community organizations ?
thepatriotdave
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:11amHow soon until these graves are filled with Americans?
Any politician that runs for the presidency had better think long and hard about taking a very hard-line when it comes to our border. We are being invaded and most presidents just simply PUNT. Punting time is over. It’s time to do something real and tangible.
What is it? (photo)
http://www.americasteapartynews.com/freedomjamboree.php
What is it? (photo)
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Showtime
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:21amOh, CHEEZ! You’re so good at your smart @// remarks! I am so envious!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:40amillegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador and Brazil.
Report Post »————
All hotbeds of hamas+hizbullah.
So how do you like that open border ?
Checkout this video before answering the question :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoPNsoxibGQ
Now , do you know that we need to keep the mehican border open so that we can afford to buy lettuce ?
Showtime
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:49am@NeedAnotherReagan ~
Report Post »You asked about the Gunrunner Oroject –
http://patriotupdate.com/5187/border-safety-concerns-linger-after-project-gunrunner-revelations
thepatriotdave
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:49amcheezwhiz
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:40am
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Screw the Lettuce! Close the border and let them eat the dam Lettuce. I’m a meat and potatoes guy anyway.
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ozchambers
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 1:50amAnd I thought the mass graves in our future would come at the hands of communists. Looks like our pinko friends have got some competition. Truth be told, the commies will probably co-opt the cartels and the lslamofascists to do their bloody work. If that indeed happens, they had better be prepared for The Resistance.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 2:01amthepatriotdave
Report Post »Screw the Lettuce! Close the border and let them eat the dam Lettuce. I’m a meat and potatoes guy anyway.————-
Planning to visit Brazil anytime soon ?Here are some fine dining suggestions :
http://www.aboutsaopaulo.com/restaurants/arabic.html
Remember the southern border has to remain open to let in all those who want to help us farm our tomatoes
Mannax
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:34amAdd this to the uncountable other reasons I will never want to go to Mexico.
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 5:50amWow, I worked on a Pivot on a ranch outside of San Fernando. The owner shot at an engineer who installed another irrigation machine just a few months later.
The lone survivor of the massacre of the 72 escaped the ranch that I worked on so many years ago.
I have friends in Mexico and several other countries of Central/South America. It sends a chill down my spine to think of one of them being executed like that.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:13amDeclare the Zetas a terrorist organization and the the Mexicans to get out of the way. Why were/are we so outraged over operation gunrunner? Most of the weapons the cartels have came directly from the Mexican military or law enforcement, not smuggled out of the U.S. Where the weapons come from is so much less important than the fact that the mexicans have so many people willing to pull the trigger.
Report Post »1chancey1
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 6:15amExactly Needanotherregan. I’m still waiting for the facts on Operation Gunrunner/Fast & Furious. I’m sure Obama and Holder are scrubbing everything to deny accountability.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 8:32am“Berlin Wall” on our Southern border NOW!! We as a nation are culpable too, by making our border so easy to cross all peoples in central and south america come up to cross. These drug lords for services and a couple of tortilla’s turn these “honest folks” into drug mules or even worse!! CLOSE the Southern Border NOW!!! NAFTA goes bye bye too!!!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 8:35am@Sheepdog911
You are correct! Those “American made” rifles were first issued to the Mexican Military/Police before they were given to the cartels!! Same same as in Iraq we issue the Iraqi military officers and senior NCO’s pistols they can take home on leave and when they return “oops mister I lost it” so we of course slap their hands and give them another brand new FREE pistol!!!!
Report Post »Boone2
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 10:28amHelp us stop this from comming to America, your neighborhood, your door step and into your home.
Go To http://www.NumbersUsa.com and get very active. Click on the “Take Action” button
and get going, we can do this if we unite together and get it done and done consistantly.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on April 7, 2011 at 11:20amThe best part of President Felipe Calderon ended up on a tissue in a toilet drain before he was born. This coward lectures up on open borders and he refuses to control the violence inside his own. Either we should make Mexico the 51st state or lets put our soldiers in Iraq on the Mexico border, arms length apart, and shoot to kill these cartel when they cross.
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