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(Sept. 8) -- Two bodies found in Mexico's Tamaulipas state may be the state and local officials who were investigating the August massacre of 72 migrants. Jaime Suarez Roberto Vazquez, the deputy public investigator, and Juan Carlos Suarez Sanchez, secretary of public safety, have been missing since Aug. 24, according to UPI. Identifying documents were found with the bodies near the town of San Fernando on Tuesday, but authorities were running DNA tests to confirm the suspicions.
Vazquez was one of the first people to find the 72 bodies at an abandoned ranch in the northeastern Mexican state on Aug. 23. Authorities were alerted to the massacre by one of the victims, 18-year-old Ecuadorian Luis Freddy Lala Pomavilla, who managed to escape after being shot in the neck.
On Monday, Mexican authorities announced they had found the bodies of three men suspected of being involved in the massacre. Mexican marines discovered the bodies and those of two women by the side of a road on Aug. 30 after an anonymous phone call tipped them off. Prosecutors' spokesman Ricardo Najera told The Associated Press that drug gangs have "handed over" their executioners in the past when they became too visible in the international press.
The August massacre of 58 men and 14 women has been blamed on the Zetas, a drug cartel that has control over much of eastern Mexico. Rival drug gangs have been fighting each other and government troops in a devastating war that has killed more than 23,000 people since 2006. On Sept. 3, alleged members of the Zetas were killed in a gun battle with army troops in Tamaulipas.
"Mexico's drug cartels are nourished from outside, by American cash, heavy weapons and addiction; the northward pull of immigrants is fueled by our demand for low-wage labor," an Aug. 29 editorial in The New York Times warned.
As if to prove that point, a report released Tuesday said 90 percent of the guns involved in Mexico's drug crimes originate in the U.S.
Investigation Begins Into Bodies Thought to Be Mexican Investigators
Sep 8, 2010 – 1:40 PM
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