Mexico reports over 61,000 people missing, discovery of 873 burial pits amid raging drug war

[TomSea]

Mexico reports over 61,000 people missing, discovery of 873 burial pits amid raging drug war
By Stephen Sorace | Fox News

The Mexican government released “statistics of horror” on Monday that showed nearly 62,000 citizens have vanished since the government began its increasingly violent offensive against ruthless drug cartels in 2006.

Karla Quintana, head of the National Registry of Missing or Missing Persons (RNPED), revised the number of missing to 61,637 people, a figure far surpassing a previous estimate of 40,000 from June.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-missing-people-mass-graves-drug-cartels

This is since 2006, so the last 13 years but surely drives the murder rate up quite a bit.

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Willing to bet it's nearly double that.