DURANGO - The stench of putrefaction filled the air last month free of Durango, a city in northern Mexico, where they found six graves with 218 bodies, "the biggest discovery in the country, in a middle class neighborhood, where people only look with horror and silent. Known for being the home of Pancho Villa and cowboy movies (Western) were filmed there, the state of Durango and its eponymous capital living an underground war between cartels that killed nearly 900 people in 2010 according to official statistics, without citizenship dares to speak out.
"There is a climate of lynching, in which society feels awesome can not express what you feel, because it is threatened," said José Rosas Aispuro AFP, a local politician who was mayor of Durango and former candidate for governor.
A field of 300 m2, located behind a private school, even off a strong smell, despite the chlorinated lime and water sprayed to create a military cordon on 11 April when they found a mass there. Dozens of bodies
That site just surrounded by a wire mesh, in what appeared to be a warehouse of used auto parts, some 90 corpses were taken at depths of up to seven meters. The military had to use bulldozers to remove them.
"We did not hear anything, we never saw anything strange," he told AFP a housewife of 38 years who lives near there and who prefers not be named.
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But in another pit, where they have extracted 46 bodies, a state employee who participated in the excavation narrated that neighbors said they heard screams at night.
"It seems that those who had been tortured there with wires in the neck until they suffocated," he said.
"The military told us they could find up to a thousand bodies buried, not only in Durango capital of approximately 500,000, but in other municipalities in the state, almost in a whisper said a neighbor.
The search for bodies will be extended to dams that according to testimonies also are deposits of people dead ahead conference on their side, Juan Rosales, Secretary of Public Security.
Threatened Sinaloa cartel
Durango, a state near the Pacific coast, where the Sinaloa cartel has been dominant, has recently been dogged by the advance of Los Zetas, another criminal organization that moves from the coast Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico is experiencing a wave of violence attributed to drug trafficking, which leaves more than 37,000 dead since December 2006 when the government of Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against the cartels supported by military deployment.
Given the lack of capacity of the morgue, the bodies remain in two trailers with system cooling, where a team of forensic experts working outdoors practicing evidence for DNA results of the corpses.
The number of bodies found in these graves is the largest located in one place in Mexico surpassing even San Fernando, a rural town 160 km northeast of the U.S. border, where they also found 183 bodies in April 40 graves in cartel murders attributed to the Zetas.
The Human Rights Commission received 35 complaints Durango in 2009 and 70 disappearances in 2010, for his part said Jorge Antonio Arteaga, spokesman for the agency. In the region there are no NGOs to investigate these cases.
"Nobody have the confidence to speak because they know the consequences, we have seen the information provided (the prosecution) that reported, then is given to offenders, "said the former mayor Aispurio who accuses the state government that ended in 2010 to make" compromise with crime groups to raise money for campaigns "policies.
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