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San Fernando is a municipality and city located in the Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

state of Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 43 municipalities and its capital city is Ciudad Victoria. The capital city was named after Guadalupe Victoria, the...

Massacres

San Fernando, Tamaulipas is notorious for experiencing two of the largest recorded massacres of the Mexican Drug War

Mexican Drug War

The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces who seek to combat drug trafficking. However, the government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence that was...

. The first massacre, known as the 2010 Tamaulipas massacre, occurred following a gunfight in the state of Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas

between drug cartel gunmen and Mexican authorities, in which three gunmen and a marine were killed. After the authorities patrolled the nearby area, they found a horrifying surprise—72 bodies were found in a remote ranch in the state of Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas

. It was "the biggest single discovery of its kind" in the ongoing drug war. The 58 men and 14 women were believed to be undocumented migrants from South and Central America trying to cross the border to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. A surviving migrant claims that the migrants were kidnapped by the Los Zetas

Los Zetas

Los Zetas is the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico...

cartel and killed for refusing to do work for them. Twenty one rifles, 101 ammunition clips, four bullet-proof vests, camouflage uniforms and four vehicles were seized by officials. The bodies were found in a room, some of which were piled up on top of each other.

The second massacre, the 2011 Tamaulipas massacre

2011 Tamaulipas massacre

The 2011 Tamaulipas massacre was the mass murder of at least 193 people discovered in mass graves on April 6, 2011. These people were kidnapped from passenger buses. Although not confirmed, some newspapers mention that the body count surpassed 500, but that the state government of Tamaulipas...

, was after Mexican authorities exhumed more than 40 mass graves, leaving the final body count to 193 corpses. Although not confirmed, some newspapers mention that the body count surpassed 500, but that the state government of Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas

supposedly censored and prevented such publications.

External links

Gobierno Municipal de San Fernando Official website

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