Mexico and U.S. Cooperate on Locating Bodies on Juarez-El Paso Border

U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials have cooperated in locating the remains of six people at a farm outside the order city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and continue to search for clues to the fate of scores of people who have disappeared, most of them after running afoul of drug traffickers. Apparently the search started after an informer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose identity is secret, told authorities that bodies were buried at the site. According to Mexican Attorney General Jorge Madrazo, authorities had collected files on 100 people who have disappeared in and around Juárez in recent years. An association of relatives of the missing people has collected files on nearly 200 vanished people. Most of the people are Mexicans, although Madrazo said 22 were U.S. citizens…[more]