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49 Mutilated Bodies Found in Northern Mexico
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Police suspect drug cartels
- Duration 1:29
- Date May 14, 2012
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-- billion of this incident like many occurred just over the border as he's rival cartels fight over these profitable drug smuggling routes.
This one the I 35 -- to work.
Going through Houston.
If controlling these routes is key it's the lifeblood of these cartels getting to drugs and the people north from the cash coming back the 49 bodies including six women were dumped at a white stone arch.
At the edges of the town of San Juan which about a hundred miles southwest of McAllen Texas -- hands.
Feet.
And heads were cut off making identification nearly impossible.
Police say this is massacre -- likely occurred near Biden and the bodies were dumped here for maximum effect to send a message.
That these victims you know they could belong to the Sinaloa Cartel or could've been a group of immigrants being smuggled by that cartel.
When they were attacked and murdered by the rivals that does.
The arch was actually spray painted with the black letters 100%.
Does that -- So in the last six years bill about 50000 people of died in the crackdown by president.
Political around it -- -- crackdown has killed and jailed hundreds of drug lords.
It's actually fractured Mexico's five main cartels now -- many associated groups in fighting.
The one thing that has probably change bill is that the people of Mexico are fed up with this and we have a upcoming presidential election.
And the next president is likely to continue in the drug war and the disturbing to hear we margin us in LA that.