Mexican authorities have discovered 337 bodies in clandestine graves since Dec. 1, when President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office, a top Mexican official said on Tuesday
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Deputy interior minister Alejandro Encinas told a regular morning news conference alongside Lopez Obrador that 337 bodies had been found in 222 graves mainly in the states of Veracruz, Sonora, Sinaloa, Guerrero, and Colima. Encinas, who has the human rights portfolio within the interior ministry, said it was the new government's first official count of corpses in clandestine graves.
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