49 dedapitated bodies found in mexico.

[LilOlLady]

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico
May 13, 2012

By the CNN Wire Staff



Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said

“This continues to be violence between criminal groups. This is not an attack against the civilian population," said Jorge Domene, Nuevo Leon's state security spokesman.

In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon's capital, nearly 400 deaths in 2011 were connected to organized crime -- more than three times the number of people slain in drug-related violence there in 2010.

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico - CNN

Did they find any Fast and Furious guns laying around? 49 we do not have to worry about smuggling any drugs over the border, etc. Keep up the good job. They are doing a better job then we are or the Mexican government.

 

[waltky]

Kidnapped Journalist Found Tortured & Killed In Mexico...

Journalist kidnapped and killed in northern Mexico
May. 18, 2012 | The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter was found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash, authorities said.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body was found inside a black plastic bag near the city of Empalme, about 68 miles (110 kilometers) south of Ciudad Obregon, where he was abducted, said Sonora state prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga. Larrinaga said police also found a message signed by a cartel, but he wouldn't reveal the message's content. The 39-year-old reporter often wrote about organized crime for the sister newspapers Diario Sonora de la Tarde and El Regional of Ciudad Obregon, said Larrinaga. Avila was snatched and forced into a pickup truck Thursday by three masked gunmen as he waited for a company car to be washed in Ciudad Obregon.

Eduardo Flores, director of the newspapers, told The Associated Press that Avila wrote about drug trafficking but never mentioned cartels by name nor did investigative pieces. "He wrote about drug trafficking, but nothing involved" about it, Flores said. "He wasn't allowed to cover anything that would be considered aggressive by criminal groups." Flores said Avila was among the most experienced police reporters on his staff. The journalist never mentioned receiving threats or being afraid of covering the police beat. No threats had been received by the newspapers, he added. The reporter was married and had three small children. He worked at night and during the day was going to university. He recently graduated with a degree in chemistry, Flores said.

Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists in recent years, with media workers disproportionately targeted as a government offensive against drug cartels and rivalry among crime gangs have resulted in tens of thousands of killings, kidnappings and extortion cases. Last week, gunmen opened fire on the offices of the El Manana newspaper in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The week before, police found the mutilated bodies of three photojournalists inside plastic bags dumped in a canal in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Prosecutions in journalist killings are rarely carried out, which is generally the case with most homicides and other serious crimes in Mexico.

Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights says 81 journalists were killed between 2000 and 2012. In addition, it said 14 of them have disappeared. Other press freedom groups differ with that number. The commission said Friday it has opened an investigation into the death of Rene Orta Salgado, a journalist who had quit working for El Sol de Cuernavaca newspaper in the resort city of Cuernavaca in January. Police found Orta's body inside his car's trunk on Sunday; he had apparently been strangled. The commission did not provide a possible motive for his killing.

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[PredFan]

Coming to a southwestern state near you!

 

[Big Black Dog]

49 dedapitated bodies found in mexico.

OK. Help me out here. What the hell is a "dedapitated" body?

 

[waltky]

Americans alerted about recent violence in Mexico tourist hot spot...

U.S. notifies expats in Rocky Point
Aug. 1, 2012 - Americans alerted about recent violence in tourist hot spot

Nearly two weeks after gunfights left six dead in the popular Sonora beach resort of Puerto Peñasco, the U.S. consulate in Nogales sent a message late Tuesday to local Americans informing them about the shootings and a recent increase in assaults against American citizens. The assaults include two home invasions. "We're not telling people not to go to Rocky Point," said Chad Cummins, the U.S. consul in Nogales. "We're just alerting citizens to what happened and reiterating the February travel warning," which recommended limiting travel to main roads during daylight hours and using the Sonoyta border crossing when traveling to Rocky Point, as Puerto Peñasco is also called.

The U.S. consulate's latest message notified expatriates about several incidents involving Americans, "including a home invasion and assault that left a U.S. citizen severely injured. In a separate incident, vacationers, many of whom were U.S. citizens, were victims of a home invasion during which adults and children were held at gunpoint while the house was robbed and a woman was sexually assaulted." Mexican officials remain mum about what led to the July 19 gunfight and about whether they see it as an isolated event or a harbinger of further violence.

Among the dead was a local figure in the Sinaloa drug cartel, José Ramon Sabori Cisneros. He was the brother of Raul "El Negro" Sabori Cisneros, considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to be one of the Sinaloa cartel's top operatives until his arrest in Hermosillo last year. Four other presumed gunmen and a police officer also died. "You don't see someone take out a bunch of people, including Sabori's brother, unless one of two things is happening: a problem within the cartel or another cartel creeping into the territory," said Anthony Coulson, the former director of the DEA's Tucson office, who retired in 2010. "It's too early to tell ... but who gets killed next will be a good determination of what's going on down there."

In Puerto Peñasco, local leaders hope there is no "next." They dismiss the notion of a pending cartel turf battle. One pointed to a theory put forward by the Mexican newsweekly Contraseña that Sabori Cisneros was assassinated for defying cartel orders and allowing his men to commit too many local high-profile crimes -- including an armed robbery, days before the gunfight, of American tourists renting a high-end house in the town's Las Conchas neighborhood. Ginger Beauchamp, president of the homeowners' association in the gated community, e-mailed owners of the 650 properties there shortly after the home invasion, alerting them to the incident. "Obviously, we want to keep people as safe as possible," she said from her condo in Phoenix. "But this could happen anywhere. We've had a home there for seven years, and I feel safer there than I do in Phoenix."

Read more: U.S. notifies expats in Rocky Point

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hey! I just got a great idea! Let's give these guys untraceable automatic weapons and not even bother telling the Mexican government! What could possibly go wrong?

 

[whitehall]

Think they might have been killed with Fast/Furious weapons? You will never hear it in the mainstream media.

 

[freedombecki]

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico
May 13, 2012

By the CNN Wire Staff



Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said

“This continues to be violence between criminal groups. This is not an attack against the civilian population," said Jorge Domene, Nuevo Leon's state security spokesman.

In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon's capital, nearly 400 deaths in 2011 were connected to organized crime -- more than three times the number of people slain in drug-related violence there in 2010.

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico - CNN

Did they find any Fast and Furious guns laying around? 49 we do not have to worry about smuggling any drugs over the border, etc. Keep up the good job. They are doing a better job then we are or the Mexican government.

The problem with this particular incidence is the link's reference to the location of the grisly discovery being near enough to the American border to have the killers elude discovery by crossing the border sans any clue they'd just committed serial murders.

 

[Jackson]

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico
May 13, 2012

By the CNN Wire Staff



Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said

“This continues to be violence between criminal groups. This is not an attack against the civilian population," said Jorge Domene, Nuevo Leon's state security spokesman.

In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon's capital, nearly 400 deaths in 2011 were connected to organized crime -- more than three times the number of people slain in drug-related violence there in 2010.

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico - CNN

Did they find any Fast and Furious guns laying around? 49 we do not have to worry about smuggling any drugs over the border, etc. Keep up the good job. They are doing a better job then we are or the Mexican government.

The problem with this particular incidence is the link's reference to the location of the grisly discovery being near enough to the American border to have the killers elude discovery by crossing the border sans any clue they'd just committed serial murders.

That's what I was thinking, too, Becki!

 

[Mad Scientist]

Hey! I just got a great idea! Let's give these guys untraceable automatic weapons and not even bother telling the Mexican government! What could possibly go wrong?

I hear Mexico is a pretty safe place because they have a total, Nationwide Gun Ban.

 

[ItsjustmeIthink]

Hey! I just got a great idea! Let's give these guys untraceable automatic weapons and not even bother telling the Mexican government! What could possibly go wrong?

I hear Mexico is a pretty safe place because they have a total, Nationwide Gun Ban.

I hear they get a lot of their weapons from countries with really lax gun laws...

I say "a lot" instead of "most" for good reason

 

[uscitizen]

Nafta

 

[freedombecki]

Hey! I just got a great idea! Let's give these guys untraceable automatic weapons and not even bother telling the Mexican government! What could possibly go wrong?

I hear Mexico is a pretty safe place because they have a total, Nationwide Gun Ban.

I know ye jest, Mad Scientist, but the State Department put out a warning a few months back on Mexico. Not sure if that status has changed.

February 2, 2012 - there is an entire State Department digital page on Mexico, (equivalent to 15 book pages) dedicated to the travel advisories and what they are in Mexico. Here is only an excerpt for south Texas warnings, where the 49 bodies were found decapitated:

Tamaulipas: Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Tampico are the major cities/travel destinations in Tamaulipas -see map (PDF, 286 kb) to identify their exact locations: You should defer non-essential travel to the state of Tamaulipas. All USG employees are: prohibited from personal travel on Tamaulipas highways outside of Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo due to the risks posed by armed robbery and carjacking; may not frequent casinos and adult entertainment establishments within these cities; and in Matamoros are subject to a midnight to 6 a.m. curfew. Be aware of the risks posed by armed robbery and carjacking on state highways throughout Tamaulipas. In January 2011, a U.S. citizen was murdered in what appears to have been a failed carjacking attempt. While no highway routes through Tamaulipas are considered safe, many of the crimes reported to the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros have taken place along the Matamoros-Tampico highway, particularly around San Fernando and the area north of Tampico.

I find that sad. When I was growing up, my parents took the family to Nuevo Laredo's open-air market. Wow, it was beautiful--hand tooled leather, colorful paper flowers, pots, dulces (Mexican candies), bright embroidered shirts and western wear, boots, belts, hats, and toys made out of dried gourds that had been shellacked and painted bright and pretty colors, what a kick! The funniest thing was, things were pretty cheap, and a quarter allowance went far, yet my brother had been advised to haggle, and I thought haggling over prices was not very nice... even if it was expected, according to my older brother. The restaurant we ate at wasn't like any American restaurant I'd ever visited. I'm afraid the franchise industry had not hit southwest Texas where we were living at the time.

I'm so sorry all that horrible murdering and power struggling between drug cartels and the Mexican government is going on. It makes it ten times harder for honest people to make a living when there's so much crime and killing and terror going on among men and women.

 

[ItsjustmeIthink]

One of the biggest reasons the cartels are so powerful in Mexico is because if you're a young Mexican you have, essentially, two options:
You can live in poverty with very little chance of upping your standard of living, OR
You can make a lot of money working for the cartels.

Mexico needs job, or I should say opportunities, more than anything.
-imo

 

[alan1]

One of the biggest reasons the cartels are so powerful in Mexico is because if you're a young Mexican you have, essentially, two options:
You can live in poverty with very little chance of upping your standard of living, OR
You can make a lot of money working for the cartels.

Mexico needs job, or I should say opportunities, more than anything.
-imo

3rd option: Sneak across the border to the USA and all of the sudden you have all kinds of opportunity to make lots of money outside of crime (ignoring the crime of illegal immigration).