SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Deep inside a ravine on the outskirts of a western Mexican city overseen by among the world’s most powerful drug cartels, 45 bags of human remains were uncovered this past week — the latest grisly event to plague America’s southern neighbor.
Such incidents in Mexico are not especially unique. But the spate of violence may have recently reached a breaking point, with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador calling for a peace agreement between his country’s largest cartels.
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