Secret Graves in Mexico Holding 59 Bodies Were Inside a Town

Secret Graves in Mexico Holding 59 Bodies Were Inside a Town
President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 26, 2020. Hector Vivas/Getty Images
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SALVATIERRA, Mexico—Search teams continued excavating a site in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato Thursday where in the past week they have found 59 bodies in clandestine graves.

Especially striking about this discovery, but also a testament to the prevailing level of fear is that the site is in the town of Salvatierra, not a desolate area out in the countryside.