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This Mexican State Is So Violent That Morgues Are Shutting Down

Paul Bois

The state of Guerrero in southern Mexico has become so ultra-violent that morgues are now beginning to shut their doors.

According to The Guardian, the violence spawned by the cartels has now “emptied entire villages, closed schools and forced bus companies off the road.” Overcrowded morgues can no longer receive the large influx of dead bodies, and workers now refuse to handle to the overwhelming “stench of hundreds of decomposing bodies.”

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