Proof of Mexican Police Working with Drug Cartels, Massacre of 193 Migrants Sputnik
go to original December 23, 2014

IBT Update: Sixteen police officers in Mexico have been arrested following the kidnap and massacre of 193 people in San Fernando.

Federal prosecutors in Mexico have revealed that Mexican police in the city of San Fernando were complicit in the mass execution of 193 migrants in 2010 and 2011, whose bodies were later discovered in mass graves, according to information gained by a US investigative organization.

One suspected gang member detained by law enforcement told investigators, "I know that police and transit officials in San Fernando help the Zetas organization, because rather than take detainees to the Pentágano, which is to say the municipal jail, they would deliver them to the Zetas," and that the officers "receive money from the organization to collaborate," the case file from Mexico's authorities reveals.

The US-based National Security Archive published on Monday the declassified document, obtained from the office of the Mexican attorney general, which details the extent of police participation in the kidnappings and massacres of migrants reported to have been making their way to the Mexican border with Texas.

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