Cartels Dump Seventeen Mutilated Bodies Near U.S. Border

[longknife]

Mexican authorities found 17 more mutilated bodies over the month of December near the US border.

Thirteen of the bodies were discovered in two abandoned vehicles in two separate cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering Texas. Four of the bodies were found hanging in public in the Mexican state of Coahuila, which also borders Texas.

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[waltky]

Rash of kidnappings in Mexico after crackdown on drug cartels...

MEXICO'S KIDNAPPING BATTLE TESTED IN FARM TOWN
Feb 11,`14 -- Gunmen grabbed a taxi driver near his home in this bustling central Mexico farm town in December and demanded a $3,000 ransom. His family paid but his captors killed him anyway.

A 22-year-old student was taken, slain and dumped by a highway after his family failed to produce $30,000. Gunmen broke into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, picked out a hardware store owner, kidnapped and killed him, too. In December alone, at least seven people were kidnapped in this town of 100,000 people, according to a tally by community organizers. All but one was slain, several after a ransom was paid to kidnappers that officials describe as a fragment of a nationwide drug cartel looking for new sources of income after authorities arrested and killed many of its leaders.

Frightened and furious, residents launched a series of protests outside city hall demanding government action. The state's tough-talking new public security chief took control of the municipal police department last month and sent hundreds of state police to Yautepec, promising prompt arrests. But in this proving ground in Mexico's fight against a nationwide surge in kidnappings, people are still staying home after dark, watching the streets for strange cars and feeling sick with dread whenever a loved one didn't come home on time.

Residents say the reinforcements are welcome but they have no confidence that government institutions they claim are rotten with corruption can have any real long-term impact on a problem that has reached epidemic proportions in this sunbaked stretch of sugarcane and tomato fields dotted with the weekend homes of Mexico City's upper-middle class.

The mayor dismisses their complaints as politically inspired "psychosis." In the absence of genuine statistics, no one really knows. "At this moment there are roadblocks but we don't see any investigation. There's no information. That's the reason for the people's sense of impotence, for their grief," said Israel Serna, a state lawmaker for the leftist Citizens' Movement party who participated in the marches on city hall. "The people don't see their leader, their mayor, their congressman, facing the problem, so people start to organize."

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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

End the drug war; end the cartels.

 

[Mr. H.]

As long as the U.S. is a nation of dopers, there will be no end to it all.

 

[eagle1462010]

Mexican Drug War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

By the end of Felipe Calderón's administration (2006–2012), the official death toll of the Mexican Drug War was at least 60,000,[42] although unconfirmed accounts set the homicide rate above 100,000 victims, given the large number of people who have disappeared.[43]