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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012. Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.

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Death in Durango: Toll in Mass Graves Rises to 260
2011-06-25
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Excavations continue in Durango, Durango as an eighth gravesite was discovered and 10 more bodies were uncovered according to Mexican news accounts.

Newly appointed Durango state attorney general Alejandro Valadez Moreno said the new count is from bone fragments found in April which included nine separate individuals.

The 10th individual was found in the village of Los Herrera in adjacent Santiago Papasquiaro municipality, but had not been counted in the Durango mass graves until Friday.