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Mexican Journalists Chronicle Lives of Two Who Died at San Fernando Slaughternew

The small town of San Fernando, situated just 90 miles south of Brownsville in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, emerged as a symbol of the ferocious drug war gripping Mexico in late August 2010 when authorities stumbled upon the bodies of 72 South- and Central-American immigrants who had been bound, blindfolded, and methodically executed by gunmen on the outskirts of an abandoned ranch.
San Antonio Current  |  Michael Barajas  |  06-09-2011  |  Movies

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