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Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants (AP)

Weapons seized from drug traffickers before being destroyed at the workshops of the Mexican Secretary of Defense in Mexico City, on August 18. A shootout in Mexico, across from Texas, uncovered what appeared to be the largest body dumping ground since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive on warring drug gangs in 2006.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)AP - A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday.


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