Posted on 10/21/2006 1:42:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
VILLA MADERO, Mexico — The drug lords at war in central Mexico are no longer content with simply killing their enemies. They are putting their severed heads on public display.
In Michoacan, the home state of President-elect Felipe Calderon, 17 heads have turned up this year, many with bloodstained notes like the one found in the highlands town of Tepalcatepec in August: "See. Hear. Shut Up. If you want to stay alive."
Many in Michoacan's mountains and colonial cities are doing just that: They are tightlipped, their newspapers are censoring themselves and in one town, 18 out of 32 police officers quit saying they had received death threats from drug smugglers.
In the most gruesome case, gunmen burst into a nightclub and rolled five heads onto the dance floor. In another, a pair of heads were planted in front of a car dealership in Zitacuaro, a town best known until now as a nesting ground for monarch butterflies.
By a highway outside Tepalcatepec, suspected drug smuggler Hector Eduardo Bautista's tortured body was dumped on July 10. Near a black metal cross put up by his family at the spot, killers apparently avenging his death have been leaving severed heads - five so far - each with a threatening message.
Beheadings and accompanying notes in sometimes cryptic and misspelled Spanish are becoming a ghoulish vogue among the gangs that grow marijuana, cook methamphetamine and run cocaine in Michoacan. There have been 420 homicides in the state this year, including 19 police chiefs and commanders, and Juan Antonio Magana, the state's attorney general, says well over half the killings were drug-related - the work of smuggling gangs reorganizing after authorities captured some of their top leaders.
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How many of these vermon are smuggling drugs over our border?
LOL, "I learned it by watching CNN."
all is vanity....slaves too fashion
The headline should read "Coming soon to a location near you! "
Just another benefit of uncontrolled borders.
Perhaps this is why Mexicans are fleeing in such overwhelming numbers.
Mexico has become a very oppressive place, and the government there cannot, or will not, provide any assurances to its citizens that they may expect any degree of domestic tranquillity.
Not that much more is available to them over here in the US, but at least beheadings and other body mutiliations are much less common.
So far.
In related news, sombrero futures continue their decline in the world commodity markets.
"...420 homicides..."
But none are shootings, because they don't allow no steenkin' guns in Mejico.
Satire?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Awesome Line!
Beheadings? Where on Earth did they learn that from?
Since the Mexican constitution does not provide the level of protection to criminals available here, they should go to war with them, a REAL war on drugs. Find them, set traps for them and kill them. Bomb their facilities and the homes of their leadership.
Oops, I forgot; those who do not fear for their own lives are on the take. Don't want to kill the golden goose!
"Satire?"
Doubt it. Mexico is a violent place for being a disarmed country.
Bump 4 EMPTY HOTELS THRUOUT Meh=HEE-Ko!
Sheesh, it's no wonder that liberals and "moderates" mock you knuckle dragging conservatives. You're a bunch of closed minded bigots.
Embrace Diversity, dammit. These guys could be your neighbor next week, then what - huh? What will you say when they invite you to a Group Beheading and Burrito Party? You'll say no and hurt their feelings. Just because they're a tad different than you. Nice, real nice.
/s
If we didn't have so many people using illegal drugs we wouldn't have to worry about the drug violence and drugs coming across our borders. Without customers, they drug lords wouldn't pay any attention to us.
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