On 22 January 2021, 19 corpses were found at Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Background

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between drug cartels and the government, and between rival cartels. It began in 2006, is part of the global war on drugs and is concentrated in the country's

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states. In Tamaulipas, this includes massacres in San Fernando in 2010 and 2011 and in

Miguel Alemán Municipality Miguel Alemán Municipality is a municipality located in Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 ...

in 2019. Violent organized crime groups are very active in the area in which the corpses were found, including clashes between the Noreste and Gulf Cartels.

Massacre

On 22 January 2021, 19 corpses were found in a truck in Camargo Municipality, which is in the Mexican state Tamaulipas and borders Texas in the United States. The authorities discovered two vehicles which were on fire. In a

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which had 113 bullet impacts, 19 people were found dead, having been shot and burned. They were

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- 16 Guatemalans, 2

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and the other of unidentified nationality - who were intending to cross the international border. Five migrants survived.

Reaction

In early February 2021, a dozen police officers were arrested in connection to the massacre.

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