Posted on 05/13/2012 12:10:24 PM PDT by Pinkbell
MONTERREY, Mexico — Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what could be the latest outburst in an escalating war of terror among drug gangs.
Mexico’s organized crime groups often abandon multiple bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals, though Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said he did not rule out the possibility that the victims were U.S.-bound migrants.
The bodies of the 43 men and six women were found in the town of San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa at about 4 a.m. (5 a.m. EDT; 0900 GMT), forcing police and troops to close off the highway. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said at a news conference that a banner left at the site bore a message with the Zetas drug cartel taking responsibility for the massacre.
Domene said the fact the bodies were found with the heads, hands and feet cut off will make identification difficult. The bodies were being taken to Monterrey for DNA tests.
De la Garza said the victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location, then transported to San Juan, a town in Cadereyta municipality, about 105 miles (175 kilometers) west-southwest of McAllen, Texas, or 75 miles (125 kilometers) southwest of the Roma, Texas, border crossing.
Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
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You couldn't get me to go to Mexico. I always wonder about people on various game or tv shows who win trips to Mexico. Are bodyguards provided?
Ir drugs were legalized and regulated these cartels would be out of business. The cartels and drug enforcement agencies are united in not wanting that to happen.
Not all of these victims are ‘innocent people’. Many of them are drug traffickers bound for the U.S. and some had drug gang tattoos on their bodies.
I’m with you. Mexico has really deteriorated.
It’s our fault though, you know that right?
And btw, even if these guy were illegal migrants, WHO KILLED THEM?
The heads & hands missing is weird, I mean, if their murders are meant as a warning, don’t you want others to know who they are? And if they’re a bunch of poor schlub illegals, who cares?
Someone here said a while ago that this has very little to do with drugs or even general criminality. It has to do with Mexicans reverting to their ancient cultic behavior of human sacrifice, etc.
That made a lot of sense to me.
I think a serious tourist boycott might be a solution to these problems. I honestly don’t know who in their right mind would go there. We were almost going to go there a few years ago, long story short, we didn’t. Thank goodness!
Possibly the 49 who helped dig a new tunnel under the border?
I’m betting they weren’t killed by the Zetas, they keep their menagerie of lions fed on their victims.
If just pot were legalized, the resulting tax revenues might create a surplus, and the economy would be stimulated with a new, highly popular industry. Then there would be the savings in law enforcement, both in terms of cash costs and human capital. But noooooo. It has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal.
You're saying these people will stop chopping others to pieces once they realize it's bad for tourism?
Along with trial lawyers, parole officers, drug councilors,etc etc cause they all make good money riding that horse.
Add to that the hundreds (thousands?) of street gangs in the USA that fund themselves through the drug trade.
Scary.
If drugs were legalized where would these subhumans channel their barbaric energies?
No they won’t. They just move on to other crimes, home invasion, kidnapping for ransom, human and arms smuggling, extortion, terrorist smuggling, espionage.
Michelle Obama says its safe in Mexico.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/michelle-obama-mexico-safe-visit-10378381
Some will, but it wouldn't make up for losing hundreds of billions of revenue. Besides they do all that anyway, but they are much better funded.
It can get WORSE than anarchy..
“Michelle Obama says its safe in Mexico.
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Then I think she should go there with out her massive security detail..
Not a big difference between street thugs or gubmint thugs
I’m so happy that the people from a country that has a culture like this has infiltrated the United States.
Since rabbits are jealous of their ability to reproduce, I’d say the US has about 15-20 years left until it becomes known as northern Mexico.
Please press 687 if by the small chance you happen to speak English.
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