'A smell of death:' Mexico's truck of corpses highlights drug war crisis

The news that authorities used a trailer to store 273 corpses offered a symbol for a crisis that affords no dignity to its victims

The first sign something was amiss came when an 18-wheeler lumbered into the dilapidated neighbourhood of Paseos del Valle on the outskirts of Guadalajara.

The truck itself was unremarkable – a white tractor unit pulling a refrigerated tailer emblazoned with a polar bear logo – but it came with a police escort.

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