Mexico: This country's morgues are so full that it stores corpses in trucks

NEW DELHI: The western Mexican state of Jalisco has been storing corpses in refrigerated trucks for the last two years. Why? The morgues in Mexico's second-largest city are full — the state is home to one of Mexico's most violent drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and has already recorded 16,339 murders this year.
Mexico is the 20th worst country on murder rate, with a homicide rate of 16.35 deaths (for 100,000 inhabitants). El Salvador is the worst with a homicide rate of 108.64.
But this September the crisis refused to die down and haunted the state's residents, as the truck with corpses went on an aimless ride around the city of Guadalajara, forcing the residents along its path to complain of putrid smell. The National Human Rights Commission have denounced "the lack of respect for the dignity of the deceased".
A truck leaves with the abandoned trailer full of bodies (Reuters Photo)
Officials originally put the number of corpses at 157, but later on Wednesday raised it to 273.
The truck was parked for two weeks at a warehouse in a downtrodden neighborhood on the city outskirts until residents complained of the stench and the flies it attracted. The authorities then moved the truck to an empty lot in another poor neighborhood far from the city center, until residents there protested on Saturday. Officials then moved it to a prosecution storage facility in the city center, where it remains parked for now.
Jalisco state has dismissed the head of the morgue as "he failed to take responsibility for storing the bodies". The question is who will dismiss other state officials for failing to stop the murders in the first place?