Rescued: Mexico’s army announced it rescued 165 kidnapped people last week. The kidnapped persons are mostly Central Americans, and include children and pregnant women. They were held captive in a house less than a mile from the U.S. border.
“Everything indicates that these migrants were contacted by human traffickers … and these criminals handed them over to criminal gangs instead of taking them to the border,” Mexico government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said.
The group was rescued on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.
The state of Tamaulipas has been plagued by kidnappings and violence in recent years. It is the site of a turf war between two major drug cartels.
In 2010, Mexico’s Marines found 72 bodies in a ranch near the U.S. border, thought to be the remains of murdered migrant workers. Mexico’s drug war has killed an estimated nearly 75,000 people since 2006.
Drug cartels are kidnapping migrants and extorting money from them or forcing them to carry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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