Authorities investigating the massacre reported numerous hijackings of passenger buses on Mexican Federal Highway 101 in San Fernando… The killings revived memories of the gruesome 2010 massacre of 72 migrants near the town of San Fernando in the same gang-ridden state. Ahí murieron 14 mujeres y 58 hombres La masacre de San Fernando; Así fue la muerte de 72 migrantes, que sigue impune Se presume que los hechos acontecieron entre el 22 y 23 de Agosto. Those killings were done by a drug cartel, while the Jan. 22 slayings allegedly were carried out by law enforcement. The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico in March 2011. The killings revived memories of the gruesome 2010 massacre of 72 migrants near the town of San Fernando in the same gang-ridden state. A year after the San Fernando Massacre, local authorities exhumed more than 40 mass graves, finding at least 193 bodies. The killings revived memories of the gruesome 2010 massacre of 72 migrants near the town of San Fernando in the same gang-ridden state. August 24, 2010 San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico The Los Zetas drug cartel kidnap 75 people illegally entering countries in South and Central America making their way to the United States, before shooting them; all but 3 are killed The massacre occurred in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and would not have been discovered as quickly as… Follow Inés San Martín on … As the largest single massacre by Mexican drug thugs to date, the incident caused international outrage. 72 people, believed to be migrants heading for Texas were gunned down in San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, near the Gulf of Mexico … Three months after the August 2010 San Fernando massacre of 72 migrants, FBI authorities in Mexico report information connecting police officials in Saltillo, Coahuila, to the Zetas and to “drug trafficking and homicides.” A list of officers who “provided support and information to Los Zetas” is redacted from the document. In San Fernando, a city of 60,000 inhabitants in Tamaulipas state near the Texas border, local police worked as lookouts for the brutal Zetas drug cartel, as well as turning a … Unfortunately, there was to be more sad news when a further 193 bodies, also victims of Los Zetas, were later unearthed following what was called the 2011 or Second San Fernando Massacre. The killings revived memories of the gruesome 2010 massacre of 72 migrants near the town of San Fernando in the same gang-ridden state.