{"id":118643,"date":"2023-09-13T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=118643"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T12:12:05","slug":"cartels-turning-mexico-into-medieval-state-as-graves-of-mutilated-bodies-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/cartels-turning-mexico-into-medieval-state-as-graves-of-mutilated-bodies-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartels turning Mexico ‘into medieval state’ as graves of mutilated bodies found"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mexico is descending into a "medieval" state with mass graves constantly being uncovered, according to a cartel expert.<\/p>\n
Forensic experts are studying remains found in the Chihuahua desert last week that they believe could be connected to a group of 13 migrants who went missing two years ago.<\/p>\n
But, as expert Ioan Grillo revealed, that barely touches the surfaces on the huge burial sites appearing across the country.<\/p>\n
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Thousands of disappearances have been reported in the Central American country, and most of them have been blamed on a bloody war between rival drugs cartels.<\/p>\n
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He told podcaster Shawn Ryan how 297 skulls were recovered from fields near a housing estate in Veracruz back in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned out to be the biggest Mass grave in Mexico in modern times," Ioan said.<\/p>\n
\u201c297 skulls \u2013 I mean this is a mess\u2026 there are bones of five years old, eight years old, one year old two-year-old remains\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Ioan says that every time one of these mass graves is discovered, mothers of missing young men turn up to morgues to see if they can identify their lost child.<\/p>\n
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He recalls one incident when he was called to the morgue for a case where 49 bodies had been found decapitated and with their hands and feet removed to hamper identification.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came out of the morgue and there was a bunch of family members and I asked \u2018what\u2019s going on?\u2019" he said.<\/p>\n
"One woman told me \u2018we're trying to find if our loved ones who have disappeared are among these victims so we want to do DNA tests\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere's one woman I talked to. She was a schoolteacher and she described how her son was dragged out of their home on one evening \u2013 18 year old philosophy student.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened was she was sitting at home, she had her two sons there; one 18 year old, one 15 year old.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuddenly the door bangs, 15 guys come in with guns\u2026 start grabbing stuff and then they say \u2018which your sons is the oldest?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThe elder son raised his hand and said \u2018I'm the eldest\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThey took him. She's got a phone call the next day to say \u2018give us this amount of money we\u2019ll give you a son back\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The woman paid the ransom, but she never saw her son again.<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cOther mothers I've talked to who had very similar stories eventually found and identified the bodies of their kids after something like three years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve just got thousands of disappearances that have come out of this conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mothers of the disappeared have staged protests, calling out for some sort of help in finding their missing children. <\/p>\n
Grillo described how a man pulled up in a car alongside one of these protests and handed one of the women a hand-drawn map and told her \u201cyou might find some bodies here\u201d.<\/p>\n
The map led to the 297-skull mass grave, close to a middle-class housing development. Eventually, after a years-long investigation the remains of the school-teacher\u2019s son were found among those bodies.<\/p>\n
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Grillo said as the investigation continued, nearby residents complained about the horrendous smell coming from the grisly excavation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how bizarre and messed-up this conflict is,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s brutal, almost like medieval kind of warfare\u2026 a like medieval kind of morality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn some ways you\u2019ve got to look at medieval stuff \u2013 the way these cartels operate it's like fealty.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got like one powerful drug boss and then a guy is below who's like swearing fealty to him\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s happening at the same time you've got a trillion dollar economy. You go to Mexico City; you can go to a Starbucks, and sit there on your laptop and you can go to a trendy bar or beautiful beaches and that's happening as we're at the same time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it's kind of weird how there's such normality around this like very harsh conflict\u201d<\/p>\n
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