53 Bags Of Human Remains Found After Dog Seen Carrying Severed Hand

[Judi Lynn]

By Clarissa Garcia on November 22 2022 3:17 PM

About 53 bags of human remains have been found since late October in Irapuato in Guanajuato, Mexico, after a dog was seen walking around with a human hand in its mouth.

Bibiana Mendoza, 32, was the one who uncovered the body parts in bin bags after digging a makeshift gravesite in Irapuato during an international arts festival, Fox News reported.

Mendoza, who founded a women's organization that searches for missing persons, told Agence France-Presse that she came to Irapuato to find her brother after hearing several reports of a dog carrying around a severed human hand.

"While people from all over the world were celebrating the Cervantino festival, we were digging up bodies, and at the same time I thought it was useless because they were burying more people elsewhere," Mendoza told the news agency.

More:
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/53-bags-human-remains-found-after-dog-seen-carrying-severed-hand-1841389

[onetexan]

1. Drug war?

[Marthe48]

2. Prayers for the dead

Sad for the survivors

[iluvtennis]

3. Wow, so tragic. "Guanajuato reportedly has the highest homicide rate among Mexico's 32 states.

Guanajuato reportedly has the highest homicide rate among Mexico's 32 states. The violence is primarily because of the lifelong war between the Jalisco cartel and the Sinaloa cartel." [from the article]

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[róisín_dubh]

4. It's really sad because it wasn't always this way in Guanajuato

But that's the same story repeated over and over again. In 2008, I lived in Guadalajara. It was safe, I felt okay traveling and going out by myself at night. Fast froward a few years and you couldn't pay me to go out alone in Guadalajara.
I went to Guanajuato in 2014 for a couple months. I wasn't quite as comfortable going out at night alone as I had been, but that was out of a sense of general precaution being in Mexico. But I had no idea how bad it had gotten.

It's been 3 years since I've been and I wonder if I'll ever go again in a professional setting. I doubt it, given my research (entirely too risky nowadays).

[iluvtennis]

5. Wow. Go with you instinct and keep yourself safe.

[róisín_dubh]

6. Yeah. The last time I was there...

an archivist told me not to discuss my work outside of the walls of that building (I study institutional misogyny and gender-based violence in Mexico). I was rattled. Now that I'm close to publishing my work, I've gotten more skittish about travel in Latin America.

[iluvtennis]

7. Keep us posted on when your work is published - that's fantastic. n/t