Events: Topics: On October 20, 2020, mass graves containing at least seventy-nine bodies was found in a neighborhood of Salvatierra, Guanajuato, Mexico.
[3] Karla Quintana, the head of the National Search Commission stated that because the location was in a neighborhood, "the people [had to have] known]" that there were graves being dug.
[3][6] On November 4, Quintana and the National Search Commission stated that the death toll had risen to sixty-seven, sixty-six of which were located in Salvatierra.
[5][8][9] The Salvatierra City Council demanded on January 9, 2021, that the Mexican government investigate the perpetrator of the killings and for action to be taken against the killers.
[10] In October, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his condolences and deployed the National Guard to the area.