El Salto, just outside Guadalajara, back in November 2020.In October, 60 bodies had been found in a different mass grave in the town of Salvatierra in neighbouring state Guanajuato.Jalisco governor Enrique Alfaro said violence in the state was due to organised crime groups seeking to create fear and said the city is "so much more" than that.
He said: "This city is so much more than those who want it to sink into fear and unease."The cartel has been fighting a breakaway faction in and around Guadalajara for a number of years and has gained power since the incarceration of El Chapo and the fall of the Sinaloa Cartel.More than 80,000 people are listed as missing since Mexico's drug war began in 2006.
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