Image copyright Reuters Image caption Authorities were earlier forced to relocate the container full of corpses following complaints 
 
 A refrigerated trailer containing at least 100 corpses in Mexico's western state of Jalisco has angered residents who have complained about the smell. 
 
 Authorities said on Monday they were trying to relocate the container, which was rented after mortuaries in the city of Guadalajara became full. 
 
 "We have a lot of children in this neighbourhood... it could make us all sick," resident José Luis Tovar said. 
 
 Laws in Mexico prevent the cremation of bodies linked to violent crime. 
 
 Local authorities said they were looking for a longer-term solution to store the bodies following a recent wave of violence. 
 
 "We ran out of cemetery plots where we could bury them," the head of the Jalisco forensic investigators unit, Luis Octavio Cotero, said. 
 
 He added that a site was being established that was expected to facilitate some 800 corpses, AFP news agency reports. 
 
 The refrigerated trailer had previously been parked at a warehouse in the neighbourhood of Duraznera, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, but after two weeks the residents began to complain of a foul stench and said the container was attracting flies. 
 
 It was then moved to an empty lot in the suburb of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, but residents there began to protest at the weekend. 
 
 "We don't want it here. They need to put it somewhere else, it stinks," Mr Tovar said. 
 
 Mexico has suffered a wave of violent killings in recent years. 
 
 More than 200,000 people have been killed or have disappeared since December 2006, when Mexico's government declared war on organised crime. 
 
 Mexico experienced its most violent year in 2017 with more than 25,000 murders, official figures suggest. It is the highest annual tally since modern records began. Organised crime accounted for nearly three-quarters of those murders. ||||| Locals in Guadalajara complained after they noticed the trailer’s stench following wave of violence that overwhelmed morgues 
 
 Mexicans have reacted with outrage after authorities in the western state of Jalisco left a trailer full of decomposing corpses on the outskirts of Mexico’s second-largest city following a wave of violence which overwhelmed local morgues. 
 
 Locals in the Guadalajara suburb of Tlajomulco complained to police after they were alerted to the presence of the trailer by the stench. 
 
 “This affects our kids, it smells horrible and the longer it stays it’s going to stink even worse,�? Patricia Jiménez told Reuters. 
 
 It soon emerged that the trailer had previously been parked by officials in the suburb of Tlaquepaque, but was moved on orders of the mayor. 
 
 It has now been moved to an industrial area near the state attorney general’s office, according to news reports. 
 
 Quick guide Mexico's war on drugs Show Hide Why did Mexico launch its war on drugs? On 10 December 2006, president Felipe Calderón, launched Mexico’s war on drugs by sending 6,500 troops into his home state of Michoacán, where rival cartels were engaged in tit-for-tat massacres. Calderón declared war eight days after taking power – a move widely seen as an attempt to boost his own legitimacy after a bitterly contested election victory. Within two months, around 20,000 troops were involved in operations across the country. What has the war cost so far? The US has donated at least $1.5bn through the Merida Initiative since 2008, while Mexico has spent at least $54bn on security and defence since 2007. Critics say that this influx of cash has helped create an opaque security industry open to corruption at every level. But the biggest costs have been human: since 2007, around 230,000 people have been murdered and more than 28,000 reported as disappeared. Human rights groups have also detailed a vast rise in human rights abuses by security forces. As the cartels have fractured and diversified, other violent crimes such as kidnapping and extortion have also surged. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by violence. What has been achieved? Improved collaboration between the US and Mexico has resulted in numerous high-profile arrests and drug busts. Officials say 25 of the 37 drug traffickers on Calderón’s most-wanted list have been jailed, extradited to the US or killed, although not all of these actions have been independently corroborated. The biggest victory – and most embarrassing blunder – under Peña Nieto’s leadership was the recapture, escape and another recapture of Joaquín “El Chapo�? Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa cartel. While the crackdown and capture of kingpins has won praise from the media and US, it has done little to reduce the violence. How is the US involved? Mexico’s decade-long war on drugs would never have been possible without the huge injection of American cash and military cooperation under the Merida Initiative. The funds have continued to flow despite growing evidence of serious human rights violations. Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP 
 
 The Jalisco state attorney general’s office has not commented, but an official in the office said the trailer was properly refrigerated and never “abandoned�?. 
 
 The office also disputed press reports the trailer contained 157 corpses, with sources telling local media the number was closer to 100. 
 
 Jalisco’s general secretary Roberto López told local media that the state’s morgue had been overwhelmed by a surge in deaths, adding that a new morgue should be finished in a month and a half. “When it is built, these bodies will be transferred,�? he said. 
 
 The row over the trailer – which erupted as the country celebrated its national day on Sunday – was yet another reminder of the grim toll from the country’s decade-long drug war. 
 
 Mexico’s homicide rate hit a record high in 2017 with 29,168 murders registered. The country recorded 2,599 homicides in July 2018, its most murderous month since 1997, when Mexico started keeping such statistics. 
 
 It was not the first time that the bloodletting has been so severe that local morgues have run out of space – similar incidents have occurred in the opium heartlands of Guerrero. 
 
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 But the gruesome episode in Guadalajara has underlined how violence has spread to all corners of the country. The surrounding Jalisco state has deteriorated rapidly in recent months: 15 people were injured in May when a gun battle erupted in the city centre after a brazen assassination attempt on the state’s employment secretary. 
 
 In March, three film students in the Guadalajara suburb of Tonalá disappeared after unwittingly filming property associated with a drug trafficker when they were working on a college project. 
 
 Much of the violence in the region is the work of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) which has disputed territories across the country – especially those controlled by the rival Sinaloa Cartel, whose former leader Joaquín “El Chapo�? Guzmán was extradited to the United States last year. 
 
 More recently, CJNG has itself splintered into rival factions. In July, US and Mexican officials announced that had raised the reward to $1.56m for information leading to the arrest of the CJNG boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho�?.
– A trailer with at least 100 decomposing corpses was left on the outskirts of Guadalajara but it wasn't yet another drug cartel atrocity: Officials say it was brought there because a wave of violence has left local mortuaries completely full. Residents say they complained to authorities about the terrible stench from the trailer, which was shifted to the suburb of Tlajomulco after complaints from residents in another neighborhood, the Guardian reports. "We have a lot of children in this neighborhood ... it could make us all sick," said local man José Luis Tovar. The trailer has now been moved to an industrial area. Mexican law bans the cremation of victims of violent crime, reports the BBC, and authorities say they ran out of cemetery plots in which to bury the bodies. An official in the state attorney's general insists that the rented trailer was properly refrigerated—despite residents' complaints of flies and a foul smell—and says there was "only" around 100 bodies in it, not 157 as claimed in some reports. Authorities say the bodies will be transferred when construction of a new morgue with more capacity is completed in about six weeks. (Some 166 bodies were recently found in clandestine burial pits in Veracruz state.)