19 people massacred on their way to the U.S.

José de Córdoba reports in the Wall Street Journal,

Twelve Mexican state police officers from the northern border state of Tamaulipas have been arrested in connection with a recent massacre of 19 people, most of whom appear to be Guatemalan migrants headed for the U.S., Tamaulipas’s attorney general said Tuesday night.

Late last month, 19 charred bodies were found in two burned vehicles on a road in Camargo, a town across from the Texas border where organized crime groups are fighting for control of routes used to smuggle drugs as well as illegal migrants. It was the latest grisly discovery in a country beset by organized crime.

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