MEXICO: San Fernando Body Count Now 145; 16 Police Arrested.

LATIMES/ T.WILKINSON

    Sixteen San Fernando, Tamaulipas police have been arrested for allegedly protecting the narcos suspected in the slayings and clandestine burials of 145.
  Also there are new revelations about missing bus passengers.
  Apparently, NONE of the bus companies whose passengers were kidnapped...ever informed authorities.
  Also, the REFORMA newspaper reported that there are 400 unclaimed suitcases at bus depots in the destination city of Matamoros.
   Many of the victims are thought to be Mexicans taken from buses that traveled to the border.

MEXICO: 2ND UPDATE: 2 Bombs Explode In C. Victoria Where Slain Migrants Are Guarded.

LINK CHANGE /WSJ / DAVID LUHNOW/ 27 AUG/  
   Two car bombs exploded outside a TV station and a police offices in Ciudad Victoria where officials are investigating the brutal murders of 72 migrants from Central and South America. The bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found after a gun battle in Tamaulipas with suspected drug terrorists that left one marine and three suspects dead. Migrants are increasingly targeted by drug gangs for ransom. Officials say the area is controlled by Los Zetas, which has branched into kidnapping migrants. Photos show bodies lying along the walls of an abandoned warehouse, some blindfolded with their hands tied behind their back. Marines are protecting the funeral home where the bodies were taken after being discovered bound, blindfolded and slumped against a wall.

MEXICO: UPDATE: 18 Attackers Die Trying To Blockade 2 Army Bases.

AP/MIAMIHERALD/  02 ABRIL/ DETAILED UPDATE/   Truckloads of gunmen tried to blockade soldiers on two army bases, in Reynosa and Matamoros, that resulted in the death of 18 attackers, two wounded and seven detained. One soldier suffered slight injuries. The gunmen staged seven separate attacks on the army, including three blockades. A general called the attacks "desperate reactions by criminal gangs to the progress being made by federal authorities" against Mexico's drug cartels.