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'A country now of mass graves': The gruesome details of Mexico's escalating drugs war

‘A country now of mass graves’ Mexico’s escalating drugs war

It is a country where so many people are being killed that there simply isn’t enough room to bury all the bodies. Escalating violence from Mexico’s ongoing drug wars has seen more than 17,000 people killed this year alone. That’s almost 80 a day - a higher rate at the height of the notoriously ferocious violence in the mid to late-2000s. Last week’s discovery of an innocuous refrigerated truck offered a gruesome portrait of the escalating crisis.…

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