AP: MEXICO CITY — Argentine forensics experts said Tuesday they have started excavating paupers’ graves in southern Mexico that are believed to contain the bodies of migrants who died but were never identified.
Team member Mercedes Doretti said the group expects to find about 80 bodies dating back from two months to 12 years ago. The bodies were found without identification near roadways or railway tracks, on a route popular among Central American migrants trying to reach the United States. Read more.
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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