Severed Head of Mexican Politician Dumped Outside Newspaper's Office

AP via FOX News ^ | Sunday, May 27, 2007

[EQAndyBuzz]

Would be nice if George Soros’ head was delivered to the doorstep of the NY Slimes.

[Sender]

Q: What's the difference between Mexican drug cartels and Islamic terrorists?

A: Mexican drug cartels shoot you before they cut your head off.

[knarf]

This seems to be a practice becoming more frequent than a couple of years ago.

I don't recall beheading being a Mexican practice.

Does anyone familiar with Mexico know if this is something new or just a practice that always was ?

I thought the preferred method of execution and intimidation was a bullet-riddled body, not a beheading.

[gotribe]

Long-range nuclear strike.

[BuffaloJack]

MUzzies practicing in Mexico before sneaking across the border to the USA?

[mewzilla]

Severed Head Found Outside Mexican Base

[mewzilla]

I haven't found any articles earlier than 2006.

Severed heads found in Acapulco

From the July 2006 link:

...The latest discoveries bring to six the numbers of severed heads found in the Pacific coast city during 2006.

[Caipirabob]

Interesting. American politicians are doing their best to bring the same behavior to their own back yards.

They may yet reep what they sow if they aren't careful. I will still view it as tragic.

[aculeus]

The head... was wrapped in newspaper

Head wrap, fish wrap. Who cares?

[Dick Vomer]

I don't recall beheading being a Mexican practice.

Does anyone familiar with Mexico know if this is something new or just a practice that always was ?

It's "old school" in Mexico. Beheading and cutting the heart out of your enemies happened. The thing most don't realize is the nice practice of killing all the male members of your family in disputes. All of them...including the little kids/ babies etc...

why?....because you know that when those boys get to be about 14-15 years old, they'll come and get you in order to "become a man" and "avenge a death".

The more recent twist is to kill everybody in your family and kill you last...that way you know that everything you loved is gone and so are you....

Kinda just makes your skin crawl, huh?...

Gang fights, that's what these are, have no "rules" like the Mafia of Italian lore. MS-13 is just a Guatemalan variant....

Always remember one thing when talking to guys that have been in prison, that are "real" gang-bangers...not the wanna-be posers ....they had to KILL SOMEBODY in order to get in. That's the way a gang has control over you... blackmail for a murder rap.

say "hola" to some "cholos"....I was a "pocho" to them and never really had a problem other than my father would have killed me (literally) if I'd hung out with "the guys" on the block.

How do I know???? Lived with it. Went out of town to high school and never looked back.

[RichInOC]

Wouldn’t it have been less trouble just to write a critical letter-to-the-editor about the guy?

[csvset]

Would the perps be eligible for a Z visa?

No sarcasm intended.

[Liberty Valance]

"Mexico has become the world's second-most dangerous place for journalists after Iraq with seven journalists killed across the country since October."

But they didn't kill a journalist this time. It was a town councilman. By leaving the head in front of the newspaper's offices it seems they wanted this story told.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

As another freeper pointed out recently, many of the Conquistadores were themselves only a generation away from having been Catholic converts to Islam by the sword, who re-converted after Fernando and Isabela took back Spain from the Moors in 1492... the other important event of that year.

Explains the whole Machismo thing, eh...

[AuntB]

A line in the story confirms what I've read before.

I do believe Mexico has outpaced Iraq for beheadings!

"Mexico has become the world's second-most dangerous place for journalists after Iraq with seven journalists killed across the country since October. A Mexican TV reporter and cameraman disappeared earlier this month in the northern city of Monterrey."

[SwinneySwitch]

Apocalypto ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[mtbopfuyn]

Another beheading? Do we now have to worry about the Mexican branch of AQ?