The bodies of 15 people have been recovered from potholes in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, which has been plagued by the disease Drug gang violence.
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“Unfortunately, 15 bodies have been found so far in secret graves on two properties,” Ramirez wrote Saturday on social media.
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He added that weapons, vehicles and drugs were also seized and four people were arrested, but he did not say whether they were supposedly involved in the killing of the 15 people.
Gang-related violence in Mexico is concentrated in or along drug trafficking routes, borders, and ports of entry.
The research organization InSight Crime has described Chiapas as a “major drug and migrant trafficking hub.”
Over the past two years, They will get it The Jalisco New Generation gangs engaged in bloody turf battles in Chiapas, which included killing entire families and forcing villages to take sides in the conflict. Hundreds of Chiapas residents were forced to flee to neighboring Guatemala for their safety.
Since Mexico launched its controversial anti-drug operation in 2006, it has recorded more than 450,000 murders and tens of thousands of people missing, according to official figures.
In October, famous Catholic priest Marcelo Perezwho was an activist for indigenous and farm workers’ rights, was shot and killed in Chiapas.
Perez, 50, often received threats, but he nevertheless continued to work as a peace activist. Human rights advocates said Perez did not receive the government protection he needed.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office on October 1, has pledged to follow the policy of her predecessor and mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of not confronting drug cartels. This policy has failed to significantly reduce violence.
On Thursday, Mexican authorities 12 bodies discovered buried in secret graves In the northern state of Chihuahua.
The state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that authorities found 11 graves containing 12 skeletons in the municipality of Ascension, near the US border.
