Mexican marines found 72 corpses

The soldiers showed up underneath fire as they neared the ranch. The marines showed up around the bodies of 58 males and 14 ladies, believed to be migrant workers, on Tuesday at the ranch in Tamaulipas stage out, 90 miles from the Texas border, correct right after a series of firefights with drug gang members.

We are nonetheless investigating how extended they experienced been there," the spokesman discussed. Marines guarding a close by checkpoint reached the ranch pursuing a wounded man who escaped approached them on Monday and gave them info leading to the place, which troops situated from the air, the navy mentioned.

Mexican cartels have moved into human smuggling in current years, at times kidnapping migrants, extorting them and forcing them to carry narcotics through the border. "The bodies ended up dumped about the ranch and have been not buried. Ecuador's embassy in Mexico City declined to comment.

"I am good we will nonetheless see a stage of very intense violence, principally amongst cartels," Calderon mentioned.Three gunmen and a marine died in the firefights, although an extra suspected gang member was arrested and several other men and women escaped, a navy spokesman described.

Marines seized assault rifles, bullets, uniforms and autos -- which includes 1 with forged army license plates.

"Yesterday's crime, for illustration, exhibits (cartels') beastliness, their brutality and their absolute lack of human scruples," he suggested local radio in an apparent reference to the Tamaulipas event. Senior national security official Alejandro Poire advised a news conference that folks killed could be illegal immigrants from nations which include Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and Brazil who experienced been kidnapped by drug gangs as they produced their way to the Texan border.

He cited testimony from the wounded guy, an Ecuadorean now in a hospital in northern Mexico.

Some are also forced to function as hitmen, Poire mentioned.

President Felipe Calderon, who deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to fight cartels when he took workplace in December 2006, has been searching for to shore up assistance from opposition politicians and civic leaders as the war on drugs grows very much a lot more gruesome.

In May possibly possibly, authorities found 55 bodies in western Guerrero state and 51 bodies on the outskirts of Monterrey close to Texas in July.


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