By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Another four bodies were found in the La Barca, Jalisco mass grave Friday bringing the death toll to 37, according to Mexican news reports.
As of Sunday evening, according to Excelsior news daily, the death toll in La Barca is at 42.
According to an El Universal wire service report featured on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, all but two of the dead were men. Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam, was quoted saying that 31 bodies have been examined, but none of them are the two PGR ministerial agents who went missing two weeks ago.
The grave was found after police detained 20 individuals of a kidnapping ring, including local police agents almost two weeks ago. Information from the raid led investigators to the La Barca site. Apparently the gravesite extends over an area which straddles the Michoacan and Jalisco state borders, and include Villa Hermosa municipality in Michoacan, as well as La Barca municipality.
Michoacan is currently one of Mexico's most violent states, as drug cartels have reacted with violence to indigenous self defense groups, which were formed stop encroachment on Indian land considered sacred.
Meanwhile in Tancitaro municipality, a Mexican Army road patrol exchanged gunfire with suspected members of Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel Friday. The Proceso wire service report did not detail casualties in this latest encounter.
Armed suspects were caught at around 1600 hrs. According to the wire report, the encounter was the third in Tancitaro municipality since November 16th, when self defense groups, colloquially known as autodefensa took control of Tepalcatepec and Buenavista Tomatlan municipalities.
The report also mentions a separate shooting involving drug cartel shooters taking place in November 19th in Tancitaro municipality near the village of Zirimbo. In that incident, cartel shooters fired their weapons on a residence. Casualties in that shooting were not detailed in the wire report.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Broly of CT will clean things up!
ReplyDeleteLol brolly to the rescue
DeleteWord is he was killed about 2 weeks ago.
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DeleteEl broly es puto, thought everyone knew that. he's to busy posting selfies on Facebook
ReplyDeleteThe same with zambada sons.
DeleteWhere's the cdjng when you need them
ReplyDeleteViva Los Caballeros Templarios ! Viva el Profe y toda su gente !
ReplyDelete5:16 you,los templarios,y el profe chinguen a todas sus reputas madres, pinchis jotos.
DeleteJunto con el joto mayor,Miguel Angel Gallegos...
Mexicans of 1915 would have never , never , tolerated this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteRoughRider 1898
So whos running Jalisco,CJNG has been really quiet and other then this news seems like Jalisco has been real quiet?
ReplyDeleteWhy u guys all infatuated w brolly? U guys think he's cute huh???
ReplyDeleteBroly is out of town in a drag queen pageant. He is unable to provide support for CT's until further notice.
ReplyDeleteIf the agents did not disappear the graves would not have been discovered. It makes me think that you could close your eyes, throw a dart at a map of Mexico and hit a fresh gravesite every time.
ReplyDeleteI hope this drug war ends and peace is restored to the south
ReplyDeleteThis war should be ended as soon as possible so they can live peacefully.
ReplyDeleteLos narcos son los narcos michocan ya valio verga
ReplyDeleteMich ya valio verga
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