El Universal. 19.01.10 Recovered from http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/705759.html
Vivette García-Deister, "9.01.10 – 15:36/Exceeded capacities", contributed by Vivette Garcia-Deister, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 9 August 2019, accessed 25 August 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/90110-–-1536exceeded-capacities
Critical Commentary
The trailer that transported the bodies of 56 undocumented Central and South-Americans murdered in August 2010 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas crashed just outside Mexico City’s Institute of Forensic Science (INCIFO), leaving a young woman severely injured. Since the day of the crash, one of two refrigeration chambers at INCIFO is exclusively used to store migrant remains from San Fernando. Only forensic experts of the national prosecutor’s office (PGR) and the Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) are allowed in the chamber, their occasional presence indicated by the full-body white suits, which they wear when working on these highly decomposed remains. I have no access to these practices. The forensic experts I work with have no access to the chamber. Yet forensic scientists constantly evoke the 2010 massacre during talks and interviews as a turning point in the country’s history of forensic services: “This event revealed an incompetent state, for the number of victims far exceeded the state institutions’ capacities to deal with the situation”.