Gunmen slaughter 35 as drug wars spread across Mexico

Many of the dead had been tortured before being left in trucks and dumped on main road in Veracruz, a previously peaceful city Mexico’s drug wars spread to formerly peaceful areas of the country as soldiers and police block off an area where 35 bodies lay under an overpass in Veracruz. Photograph: AP When two trucks full of bodies were dumped during rush hour on a main road on the edge of the port city of Veracruz it underlined the way Mexico’s drug wars are both qualitatively escalating and expanding to parts of the country that were previously peaceful….

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Gunmen slaughter 35 as drug wars spread across Mexico

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