Guanajuato Becomes The Deadliest City In The Mexican Drug War

JAKARTA - The search for more than 73 thousand Mexicans who have disappeared as a result of the war between the government and drug cartels continues. In the latest attempt, a search team found 59 human remains in a hidden grave in Guanajuato, Central Mexico.

Launching CNA, Friday, October 30, the finding of dozens of missing people made Guanajuato the state with the largest number of murders in Mexico. No bodies were found in other areas with as many numbers as in Guanajuato.

The suspicion that the missing person is a victim of the drug cartel war is getting stronger when many bodies are found in the city of Salvatierra. The city has become a battleground for drug cartels fighting for power.

"This place is in the neighborhood. To get there you have to pass houses, you have to go through the streets. People know," said National Search Commission chairman Karla Quintana.

Karla suspected that the people around the location actually knew of the grave. Even so, Karla did not worry about it.

Because, with the success of finding dozens of bodies, Karla can now focus on finding the rest of the other missing people. After that, the bodies will be identified and returned to their families.

Furthermore, Karla revealed that the bodies found were mostly young. In fact, most of the victims were women. For that, Karla called the discovery of a corpse as a sad and terrible discovery.

Meanwhile, during the search process, people who have missing family members seemed to be waiting faithfully at the burial site. They hope that they can immediately be allowed to participate in the digging and try to identify family members who are victims.

"What I want to do is be allowed inside, to see if I can recognize any of the clothes they have dug up," said one mother whose child was missing, Leticia Valencia.

According to official data, the cartel gang wars that have occurred since 2006 have recorded more than 287 thousand murders in Mexico. However, many of the cases were not related to organized crime.