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Article: Seaside village believed to have suffered worst of Mexico's brutal Arellano Felix drug ring
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- AP Worldstream
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- March 14, 2002
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Dateline: EL SAUZAL, Mexico
As the fog drifted in, the slap of wet cement and the clunk of stones
filtered from the seaside cemetery where workmen repaired a gap in
the old stone wall.
Three years had passed since the wall was knocked down so a bulldozer
could enter to dig a plot big enough for all the bodies. Seven were
buried together that day _ 19 people were killed in all _ in what
officials say was a gruesome message from the Arellano Felix brothers.
The surviving villagers were so stunned that they put off repairs
at the cemetery. "It just broke our hearts to go up there," said Ana
Maria Tovar, who lost nine relatives. "It hurt too much. Nobody ...