59 bodies found in north Mexico pits ("total lack of scruples of the criminal organizations")

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 7, 2011 | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Cincinatus' Wife]

MEXICO CITY — Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said.

Security forces stumbled on the site as they were investigating reports that passengers had been pulled off several buses by gunmen in the area in what may have been an attempt at forced recruitment by a drug gang.

State and federal authorities conducted a raid that netted several suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims.

Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead.

....Tamaulipas state interior secretary Morelos Canseco said two of the dead were women. Many of the victims found in the pits appeared to have died between 10 and 15 days ago, dates that would roughly match the bus abductions, he said.

Canseco said state officials began getting reports that gunmen had been stopping buses, starting around March 25. At least two more cases were reported in the following days. The buses were allowed to continue on with their remaining passengers in each case.

...President Felipe Calderon's office issued a statement saying the find "underlines the cowardliness and total lack of scruples of the criminal organizations that cause violence in our country."

...The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found shot to death Aug. 24 at a ranch.

The area is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border at Brownsville, Texas.

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[Moose Burger]

“total lack of scruples...”

In other words, nothing has changed since the days of the so called “revolution”.

[SMARTY]

“total lack of scruples...”

THAT’S why they call it crime instead of ‘fishing’!!

[allmost]

Mass graves. Not that I watch much but you would not hear of this on tv. We should be invading Mexico for humanitarian reasons if that is a valid reason. Exponential numbers of homicides and human abuses compared to Libya.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder if the people using these drugs care that people are being pulled off buses into drug smuggling press gangs and if they say “No!” are shot and pushed into a pit with others who also said, “No!”

Probably not.

All we need to do is legalize chemically altered mood enhancing drugs and all will be right with the world — and think of all that pretty tax money it will bring in to support social justice causes.

Now that’s the ticket.

Right?

[allmost]

Seems to be bit of sarcasm in that. :)

Okay. Tell me who has the right to outlaw a plant.

[rbg81]

But, of course, the Multiculuralists tell us we can’t be judgmental about these kinds of things. In 20 years, this will be happening regularly in the American Southwest.

[Charles Martel]

"...total lack of scruples of the criminal organizations..."

Scruples? What a strange choice of words, Felipe.

Now, if the cartels were stretching their cocaine shipments with powdered sugar... *that* would be less than scrupulous, sort of.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Maybe something was lost in the translation.

It certainly caught my attention.

Your proper use is correct and the graphic is a nice touch.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There are so many things wrong with what’s going on, or not going on that the bottom line is, too many people are making money off misery, crime and conflict — then throw in the politics on both sides (vote here; money propping up Mexico there, etc).

Moral people are not wanted.

[newzjunkey]

We should be invading Mexico for humanitarian reasons if that is a valid reason.

I've often thought we should've invaded Mexico instead of Iraq.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Okay. Tell me who has the right to outlaw a plant.

Well, there are a lot of laws aren't there?

Let's make a list and work down from there.

Should we prioritize them by cost to enforce, or lives lost or what? After we do that we should set up some sort of hierarchy of who makes the most money -- the lawyers, the dope growers, the dope smugglers, the dope dealers and stack it up against cost to the public for paid hours needed in law enforcement and medical care and then figure out some formula to weight the economic and social cost of all the human wreckage.

I'm sure all those getting a bullet in the back of the head would like to die knowing how it all works, knowing that they aren't just some forgotten statistic but that they were considered in the grand scheme of things.

[allmost]

Yeah, I took the bait. :)

You never answered my question. Declaring another form of life 'illegal' is inherently egotistical to put it mildly. As far as the criminal aspect goes, that exists almost exclusively due to the illicit status. I'm not 'pro drug' per say but anyone who wants to can get them, for a thousandfold markup. The monetary aspect creates just about all of the violent crime generally associated with drugs. Alcohol prohibition created criminal structures for profit. The name of the product changed, people have not.

[SwinneySwitch]

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[RC one]

I don’t care anymore about Mexicans killing Mexicans than I do about Arabs killing Arabs. Saves us the trouble as far as I’m concerned. Then again, I’m not entirely opposed to invading Mexico. It wouldn’t be to save lives though.

[Moose Burger]

Wrong. Kind of. This kind of behavior was relatively common during the “revolution” war started in 1910, that hasn’t quite ended yet. Guerrilleros would stop travelers and ask them which faction they supported; wrong answer, they shot them. There was drug market involved even back then. But it wasn’t the main deal. Messed up take-over-the-world ambitions were, as they still are.

[upcountryhorseman]

Mexico was corrupt long before the drug wars. It appears that some areas are in a state of anarchy.

[Cindy]

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[FlyingEagle]

The US is also corrupt in the drug wars and in a state of anarchy along the border.