Mexican officials report 49 bodies dumped on highway to US border

Washington Post ^ | May 13, 2012

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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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I wonder how many average Hispanics even living here are afraid of the cartels and are careful about not offending them.

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Poppy production in Afghanistan is twice the pre-war rate and four times the wartime low.

We now have a privately contracted air force with world wide infrastructure to fly around persons of interest.

The US government via Fast-n-Furious is running guns into Mexico, why supply both sides? Unless of coarse your goal is destabilization in general?

PRODUCTION - TRANSPORTATION - DISTRIBUTION

Nothing this crazy has happened since, well, Iran Contra. Except maybe this time the goal isn’t to fund an idealistic battle against communism, maybe this time it’s just simple greed.