After three days of searching, Mexican army troops and Quintana Roo [2] state police on June 18 discovered 12 bodies in four cenotes (natural wells) near the Cancún airport. Last week, six bodies were found in another presumed narcofosa [3] (narco-grave) in Cancún. Authorities were apparently tipped off to mass graves by arrested sicarios (assassins), and 19 more have been arrested in their connection. Among those detained are a former member of the Kaibiles [4], the Guatemalan army's special forces, and an ex-agent of the Cancún municipal police. Authorities did not say which faction the detained belong to, but press accounts have identified them as members of Los Zetas [5]. (El Universal [6], AFP [7], June 18; Diario de Quintana Roo [8], June 17)
See our last posts on Mexico's narco wars [9].
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