Mexico Drug Wars: 49 Headless, Dismembered Bodies Found Dumped Along Highway

[Fat Freddy]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mexico-drug-wars-49-headless-dismembered-bodies-found-130658096.html

 

 

Forty-nine headless, dismembered bodies were found along a stretch of highway in Mexico on Sunday.

The mutilated bodies "scattered in a pool of blood"--some with their hands and feet "hacked off," according to the Associated Press--were discovered by local authorities on the edge of the town of San Juan on a road that connects Monterrey to the Texas border.

The bodies were thought to have been dumped there by a drug cartel, authorities said. A welcome sign near the killing field was filled with graffiti with the message, "100% Zeta."

Zetas is one the two largest drug cartels in Mexico. The other is the Sinaloa Cartel.

"This continues to be violence between criminal groups," Jorge Domene, a state security spokesman,said a news conference on Sunday. "This is not an attack against the civilian population."

But the escalating violence between the two cartels has resulted in a recent rash of symbolic slayings.

On April 17, according to the AP, mutilated bodies of 14 men were left in a minivan in downtown Nuevo Laredo. On May 5, the bodies of 23 people were found, some hanging from a bridge and others decapitated and dumped near city hall. On May 9, 18 dismembered bodies were discovered outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.

Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey are considered Zetas territory, while Guadalajara has been controlled by the Sinaloa cartel.

In September, a Sinaloa drug gang dumped 35 bodies in Veracruz, Mexico. In August, a Zetas attack on a Monterrey casino left 52 dead.

Domene said Sunday's victims--43 men and 6 women--would be hard to identify because of "the lack of heads, hands and feet."

Since 2006, when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels, more than 47,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence.

 

 

And the beat goes on! This was one of three reports on yahoo. I did not read them all so I do not know if they are inter related or a dif take on the same story.

[ilynnboy]

Sad news.

When will legalization happen? There would be little or no violence if legalization were to take place.

We cannot control what people want to ingest.

Sad news indeed.

Sadly this is only one incident in a long line of murders that will continue.

[cristinew]

This is what our Government wants, its called a WAR ON DRUGS

[Croppled1]

Perfect example of why transfers should be allowed between qualifed participants seperating medical use from recreational supporting the black market and their established networks in the State . If there was enough supply I would say make it illegal to use the black market under any circumstances but there never is enough affordable supply for patients and they just want relief . Everyone is having a hard time delinieating between medical and recreational behaviors . .

[HEMP4LIFE]

their are people out there who want to commercialize grows just wait until the cartels focus their losses on whos in their pocket.

we have a good network of small businesses with our care provider model. yes it could be better but its pretty safe.

dose america really think its immune to cartel violence? I know a few officers who would rather ruff up a few sick patients rather than go after a van load of these dudes. the same spineless leo's go do knock and ask about a over due library book, rather than going after real crimminals. just saw it on the news this am.

[Shredder]

This sounds like Oakland county.......shredder

[HEMP4LIFE]

Sorry I assumed since he said good for sleep he was taking them internally.

taken by mouth 6 drops 3x /day