Internal US Documents Detail 'Alarming Questions' About Mexico Violence Deborah Bonello - The Los Angeles Times
go to original May 15, 2015

Mexico's National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information, and Data Protection (INAI) ordered the Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) to release its complete reports on its investigations into last September's enforced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. (teleSUR English)

The grisly discovery of more bodies and human remains in the hills of Guerrero, Mexico, raises “alarming questions about the widespread nature of cartel violence in the region and the level of government complicity,” a U.S. military report said.

The document, written by a human rights working group under the U.S. Northern Command (Northcom), was circulated internally in October after its investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26. It was made public this week.

It expressed concern that none of the 28 bodies pulled out of numerous mass graves in the area belonged to the missing students, raising questions about how many other people may have been killed and buried clandestinely.

Since the report was written, scores more bodies have been unearthed by search parties organized by families with missing loved ones.

...The group’s Facebook page – Te Buscare Hasta Encontrarte (I Will Look For You Until I Find You) - posts updates of its discoveries and is part of a national network of people looking for their missing.

There are more than 20,000 people currently listed as “disappeared” in Mexico. Guerrero has long been one of Mexico’s most violent states, and is also a major production hub for the country’s booming opium trade.

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