While the border between the United States and Mexico has been at the heart of conversations across the Atlantic since the election of Donald Trump, it is another sordid affair which is occupying the Mexican authorities this Saturday.
Fifty-six corpses were exhumed in the state of Chihuahua between Tuesday and Friday, with the support of the army, according to a press release from the regional prosecutor's office without any details on the possible identity of the victims. Criminal groups traffic drugs, weapons and migrants in this part of Mexico.
Over the days, investigators found bodies, complete skeletons and scattered bones, bullet casings and clothing.
The remains were sent to forensic laboratories to determine “the causes and time of death, as well as the identity of the victims,” the prosecution added.
The bodies were exhumed in a location known as “El Willy,” controlled by the criminal group La Linea, “one of the armed branches” of the Ciudad Juárez cartel on the border, according to the newspaper. The Day.
-More than 450,000 violent deaths in Mexico since 2006
The state has a total of 3,927 missing people until December 2024, far from other states hardest hit by this phenomenon such as Jalisco (west) and Tamaulipas (north), which have more than 13,000 cases, according to official figures.
Since December 2006, the date of the launch of a controversial military anti-drug operation, Mexico has accumulated more than 450,000 violent deaths and tens of thousands of disappearances, according to official figures.
