Mexican Mass Grave Discovered: Drug Cartel Body Dump, At Least 55 Bodies

Front page on the BBC, buried in the New York Times.

OldSouth is unsurprised. After all, the White House and its cheerleaders have little appetite for revealing news about Mexico.

So, from our British cousins:

Mexican police say 55 bodies have been recovered from an abandoned mine that appears to have been used as a mass grave by drugs gangs.

Human remains were first discovered in the silver mine near Taxco in Guerrero state at the end of May.

The bodies appeared to have been thrown down a 200m (650ft) ventilation shaft over a period of time, police said.

Earlier reports that 77 bodies had been recovered were mistaken, officials said.

Only six have so far been identified - one was the director of a local prison.

Guerrero state is a focal point for drug-related violence that has claimed more than 22,000 lives in Mexico since 2006.

Police are now checking other mineshafts in the area to see if bodies have also been dumped there.

As well they should!

Now, what's the US government's reason for its refusal to aggresively enforce our southern border?

OS thinks that at least a few of those bodies are casualties of our government's negligence. And the bodies just keep stacking up...

Does this lend insight into why Arizona has acted to defend itself? Again, don't bother looking for this stuff in the Yew Nork Times.