At Mexico Morgue, Families of Missing Seek Clues - NYTimes.com: "For two weeks now, the authorities have been bringing in bodies from mass graves around San Fernando (Tamaulipas), 145 corpses at last count, and with each new grave discovered, another crowd appears, seeking news of missing loved ones, clutching photographs, holding out their arms to give blood for a DNA sample.
They are looking for closure, but as their ad hoc gathering has grown into the hundreds, it has hardened a perception that government authorities have fought desperately to dispel: Parts of northern Mexico, including most of this state, Tamaulipas, have been lost to criminal gangs, and for quite some time."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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