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The Guardian

Welcome to the Guardian Long Read, showcasing the best long-form journalism covering culture,

politics and new thinking. For the text version of this and all our long reads,

go to thegardion.com-for-th slush-long-read.

This audio-long-read contains language you may find offensive.

The Death Truck, how a solution to Mexico's more crisis, created a new horror.

How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara

by Matthew Bremler, read by Lucy Scott and produced by Tiffany Cassidy.

This long-read contains some descriptions of dead bodies that you may find distressing.

On the southern outskirts of Guadalajara, early in the morning of 15th September 2018,

a large container, the type normally attached to a lorry, sank into the soupy ground beside a

rutted country road. The refrigerated container could store up to 18 tons of material,

cooled to minus 40 degrees centigrade. Across its white exterior, a cartoon polar bear in a blue

work shirt smiled and gave a thumbs up. A container like this was a common enough sight in the

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