Mexican authorities in the tourist hotspot of Cancun are working to identify several bodies they found in two clandestine gravesites.
On Saturday morning, authorities found another body in the Santa Lucia neighborhood a short distance from the first two gravesites, Mexico’sIn recent months, the tourist hotspot of Cancun experienced a dramatic rise in violence as rival drug cartels fight for control over the local distribution of drugs. In addition, control of the lucrative extortion fees charged to local restaurants and bars added to the violence.
In March, authorities found five other bodies in a natural sinkhole. The victims in that gravesite are believed to be members of CJNG. Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used.
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