MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials confirmed the discovery of up to 30 bodies in clandestine burial sites over the same weekend that they said some Red Cross ambulances will get armed escorts for the most risky calls. The Guanajuato state chapter of the first-aid group shuttered operations in the city of 270,000 but later resumed ambulance service. Violence in Mexico has worsened in the last year, with homicides running at their highest rate on record and surpassing the previous peak set in 2011. Clandestine burial sites have often been used by drug cartels in Mexico to hide the bodies of executed rivals or kidnap victims. While hundreds of such sites date back to the height of the drug war from 2010 to 2016, some are more recent.

Source: Washington Post April 15, 2019 13:50 UTC