Latest Mexican Drug War Escalation: 49 Mutilated and Decapitated Bodies Left on Highway
- Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:23pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Federal police on a vehicle guard one of the three forensic trucks where several bodies were placed after dozens of bodies were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border found in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — 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, officials said.
The bodies of 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 a banner left at the site left a threatening message in the name of the Zetas drug cartel.
The identities of the victims were not immediately clear. Domene said the fact they were found with their heads, hands and feet cut off will make identification difficult.
Attorney General Adrian de la Garza told a news conference he did not rule out the possibility they could be migrants. He said they could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location.
Mexican drug cartels have been waging an escalating war of terror as they battle to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies were left at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, two days after that. The goal apparently was to take over territory that had been dominated by the Zetas. Twenty-six bodies were found in November in Guadalajara, another territory being disputed by the Zetas and the Sinaloa group.
So far this month, 23 bodies were found dumped or hanging in the city of Nuevo Laredo and 18 were found along a highway south of Guadalajara.
Officials last year found 183 bodies in mass graves in the Tamaulipas state town of San Fernando. They were believed to have been migrants killed by the Zetas drug cartel. Another 72 migrants, many of them from Central America, were found slain in San Fernando in 2010.
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Comments (127)
Cruelnunusual
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:30pmThe level of mutilation is remarkable. There are only a few things that could account for it. Religious fervor, cocaine-induced mania, or one or more Saddam Hussein-like, utter psychopaths competing to see who can be the most intimidating. But it takes a special kind of person to maintain this level of brutality. It isn’t just drug gangs.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:31pmUnder Progressive Indoctrination… America became a land of sheltered pyssies. Humans are a Predator Species… and kill with gusto!
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 2:41amYeah, but you don’t chop the heads, feet, and hands off of 49 people just by being a bad guy. It takes a rare individual to do all that.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:36amYeah I’ve told all of you on here this before.The teoorist cells will use anything to hide behind.Yes that dang well includes drug cartels.It especially includes gang and cartel members.As long as everyone can be fooled into thinking its everything but them, they can continue to commit the most barbaric acts known to man ,all in the name of there peaceful religion.WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP>
Report Post »TheEmerald
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:17pmYou are absolutely right on this score! It wasn’t until the terrorists/islam joined forces with the Mexicans and their sold out government that mutilation (which is VERY widespread in Muslim countries and considered acceptable punishment for various crimes) that the mainly Catholic/Christian mexicans started doing all of the ‘mutilation’ they are currently indulging in. AND we who live on the border and clean up after all of the illegal entry points, know that MANY Islamic terrorists cross the border daily. And that is a fact, not fiction. The current White House policy tries to keep this fact hushed up just as they o the fact that we have many terror training camps in this country which are allowed to operate unmolested! This Administration is allowing not home grown terrorists to be made here but ALL terrorists to be made and trained here in how to destroy our country. We spent a billion dollars for roughly 25 miles of ‘experimental fence’, built by Boeing, over a period of several years I might add, that the illegals and cartels simply use car jacks, you can buy at any salvage yard or auto parts dealership, to ‘jack up’ said fence and simply cart their back packs of drugs under to distribute around the country. Drugs are merely one of the major sources of funding for all of these terrorists, not the cause of the problem. Whether they are Arab, Egyptian, Mexican, whatever, a terrorist is a terrorist and is breaking federal law to even be on this soil.
Report Post »dont_tax_me_bro
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:25pmBring our troops home and place them on the border now!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:55pmPolice handle Borders & Illegals… Soldiers fight Wars, hopefully on Foreign Land!
Report Post »Hawaii_Conservative
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:13pmThere is nothing wrong with having our military come home and prepare for a ground war here on US soil. Place almost all training on our borders; I can’t think of a better way to detour drug lines and illegal Muslim crossing than putting them in the crossfires. Give military personnel live targets to practice with. We as Americans have been naive long enough, It has never about diversity, only the destruction of America. If we want to be like the rest of the world, we would have stay in the UK in 1620. I know because my family was on that voyage. So bring our military home.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 3:58amCreate a DMZ about 5 miles wide. They have Zeta’s, a para military force, so we respond with extreme prejudice.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:25pmAnd bye, bye….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:23pmNo thank you : (
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:21pmInstead of hearing about it and watching it maybe you could do something about it. Complaining doesn”t count. Take action.
Report Post »HawkEyeTx
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:14pm#
Hey Texas; get ready as the Sinaloa cartel will be coming to a large and small towns near you sooooon.
Start ‘packing’ and I don’t mean to leave town.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:14pmMore than a few posters on here are right …What is going down, has gone down, or is going to go down is the question. And has a whole lot more to do than drugs.. I believe al-Qaida has paid the Cartel money for bringing men and guns into the U.S. Would have been way to easy for them to get as much Mexican military guns and hardware they wanted. They are here now stationed and ready for a day we could never believe happening. 9/11 that was a decapitation strike al-Qaida hit us with. That’s their signature, afflict catastrophic damage on different levels at once. So again (1) economic (2) political (3) military…If you have a packs of Muslim rats hit us in so many different places at once …(1) you kill the economy with fear (2) people will turn against the political system (3) Will make it seem the military is used against its citizens..or your marshall law effect comes into play. And something still wasn’t right with the SS down in Columbia….Stinks to high heaven…Yet the few “Men” to stand up to these enemies are …Now attacked by our own justice system….When all is said and done.. Will we then have the set to do what needs to be done. Send one clear message to our enemy ..When you see our armies wave a white flag of surrender or stand and die for your misguided beliefs then destroy to surrender and victory all that oppose.Or will we have a TSA for every store, road, school, public place. Guess soon we will find out…
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:12pmHow many more GUNS from ATF & DOJ Fast And Furious was USED
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:06pmHolder isn’t saying
Report Post »svan71
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:12pmThis is al-Qaida on our border, this is not just about drugs….sorry
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:49pmYou know, I never really agreed with my dad, but he said they need to get an army in and wipe those drug gangs out so that the people there can just live their lives. How are they ever going to get control of this? It’s crazy. Are they that desperate for money? See what happens when a Government stuffs up the economy.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:08pmKathleen
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:49pm
You know, I never really agreed with my dad, but he said they need to get an army in and wipe those drug gangs out so that the people there can just live their lives.
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Good luck at trying to accomplish that:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/two-us-soldiers-arrested-for-offering-assassination-services-to-mexican-drug-cartel/
So much of the cartels domestic competition has been wiped out that they are flush with cash from the monopoly that the U.S. taxpayer has provided them…..
As a result, they are able to pay much better rates to soldiers and law enforcement personnel (ESPECIALLY soldiers and police inside Mexico itself) than the taxpayer can reasonably afford to pay:
“Crime Inc. explains how prohibition in the 1920′s made the mob an American powerhouse whose influence reached into the highest levels of government.”
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Cruelnunusual
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:34pmThey’re not doing it for money, there’s somebody behind it who enjoys it.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:59pmThe hero of the left “Che” has returned to save Mexico. There is a sickness welling up in the world, everyday it seems we’re under attack on all social and moral fronts
Report Post »joelack55
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:45pmYou’re right. …. If they just outlawed drugs
Report Post »Than this would stop. Because you know criminals
Obey the law .
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:42pmYeah, let’s just make murder legal too, and that also outlaw death row in every state. Just look at the savings in….of all things….money!
Report Post »Lonescrapper
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:48pmAnd we all know the maffia stopped doing crime when alcohol was legal…
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:30pmI’ve said this once before, and I’ll say it again…
We don’t need just a fence. What we need is a wall complete with machine gun bunkers, razor wire, and land mines…think Korea’s DMZ but on our border.
Sounds far-fetched, but when those start to be Americans lying dead and headless on the roads people might start thinking twice.
Report Post »db321
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:51pmBetter yet – why does America just become more Obedient to God’s Word! God made it very clear – what you do to Israel – God would do to you. If an American President can tell the World that Israel should go back to 1967 Borders (this would be instant death for Israel and the Jewish people of Israel) then America’s Borders probably we never be safe no matter what we do.
Just saying – I don’t think our Border problems are Drug related, or Political. I believe our Border problems are Theological. I know for a fact that their are heavy consequences for a Country who’s elected representative is spitting in the eye of God every time he opens his mouth!
I’ll even take it a step farther, if you voted for Obama, then you too said those same words and you will also stand in judgement for your word and deed!
I don’t care if Obama promises me a million bucks to vote for him – I WILL NEVER ALLOW A MAN TO MAKE ME DO SOMETHING THAT RESULTS IN SPITTING IN THE FACE OF GOD! If you voted for Obama in the last election – get on your knees and ask for forgiveness NOW – and then sin no more! Church is now dismissed!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:10pmDB…Um, ok. I believe what you are trying to say is, is that the world is losing it’s morals…hence we need the bunkers…I think that’s what you meant…
Report Post »RedDirtTexas
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:17pmThey find bodies around El Paso all the time. Barely makes a column in the El Paso T-I-M-E-S! These people ( the cartels ) are running amok in the U.S. and the border states are trying to prevent it here but the federal government is fighting us with all their might! I don‘t think it’s just for hispanic votes. Must be some cartel money involved. Just like they pay off Mexican politicians. Or threaten them. If the Mexican government would allow us to round them up we could. Easy!
Report Post »Mathew Manhorne
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:27pmAll you religious bible thumping quacks always spew the same non-sense… I dare you to go down to Mexico with nothing but a bible in hand and see where that gets you. I have been there and seen the madness down there and no amount of praying and wishful thinking is going to stop this.Maybe at the beginning it might have helped but its far beyond any of that now…Whats happening down there is an armed insurrection. Nothing less.There is a well in placed communist rebel movement that has been in place in southern Mexico for a long time and since the collapse of the Soviet Union they have used the Drug trade to finance their war. Our government and media has kept the American people as much in the dark as possible but its is getting close to being to big for that and the failure to deal with it long ago will be a big price now for the American people as it is now for the Mexican people.
Report Post »db321
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:43pmLickinback!
I really don’t care what the World does. I only care what America and our President does. The Bible teaches us that in the end times every Nation of the World would come against Israel. America has always taken the side of Israel and their right to the land that God gave the Jews in the New Statementing. It fact, Israel is the only peace of land that God gave to any one in the Bible.
The reason why, I care that America stands on the side of Israel – is because the Bible goes on to teach us that every Nation that eventually comes against Israel will be destroyed by God.
In other word the protector of Israel – nether slumbers or sleeps. I would hate to be the one that votes for Obama in this next election – knowing Obama’s stance on Abortion, Gay Marriage and anti-Israel! Do they honestly think they can get away with spitting in the face of God!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:06pmMatthew obviously you don‘t know Bible thumper’s too well. The Bible would be in the left hand and packing heat in the right and ready to kick some unrighteous butt. We ain’t stupid like you.
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:24pmA Jurassic Park style fence complete with electricity. Touch it and DIE! The dead should be left on the fence as a warning to stay off it in case those contemplating sneaking over cannot read the DO NOT CLIMB FENCE OR DIE signs in English/Spanish/Arabic, etc plastered up and down the fence.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:27pmBetween drugs, Islam and deficits, we are FINISHED!
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:43pmRIGHT:
Get the he!! out of my foxhole….!
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:07pmYou can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life and do something with your life….take a stand…because your statement makes you sound like a Grade A Coward….
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:16pmAnd we have no problems sending in drones and covert teams into countries beyond are physical borders. Unemployed snipers who would kill for a job remain unemployed.
Report Post »Bearwolf
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:46pmAgreed. We need to get more involved here and use drones and special forces to take these people out. Make them feel unsafe wherever they go. These people have no rules and you wont defeat them by playing by the rules. Let’s get mideval on them.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:27pm“Thou shalt not kill.”. I read that somewhere. If I can find the quote I”ll post the citation later.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:02pmCaught that last sentence.The tongue in cheek humor was not lost on me.
Report Post »I agree with the rest of your post.Just wanted to let you know not all of us are clueless.Some of us do catch the more subtle forms of humor.
SK-1
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:12pmThey should just outlaw drugs…then this horrible stuff wouldn’t happen.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:27pmHello, it is outlawed. So what? It has no effect.
Report Post »SK-1
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:04pmOMG… you have got to be kidding me. Forget to put on your sarcasm hat today???
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:08pmand obamas administration can’t seem to wrap their head around why Az, Tx need to ck those living there ? are they there as illegals or not ? come on obama use some comon sence
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:18pmThey are the drop houses and distribution points I’m sure Eric and Janet has it all under control.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:05pmThis looks like a bunch of criminals killing another bunch of criminals.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:23pmSorta like Obama and Muammar Gaddafi.
Report Post »vermindust
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:34pmIt looks like a bunch of criminals removing every non-cooperative civilian from some small town to tell everyone you WILL assist them when they demand it. There’s no way of knowing if they killed forty random strangers on the road just to enhance their reputation or if they wiped out a caravan of migrants heading Southward just for stepping on their territory. The optimist in me hopes you are correct and the victims are another gang of narco-thugs, the realist expects they were relatively innocent.
Report Post »themachinist239
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:07amThanks Vermindust for trying to inject some intelligent thought into an otherwise insane collection of comments. Alot of people commenting have no concept as to the scope of the cartel problems in central & south Americas. For decades they have built massive infrastructure in production, networking, smuggling, distributing, and sucking the life out of (literally) every community it touches with violence, gov’t corruption, etc. They are unstoppable. For some people here to link cartel violence to Islamic terrorism is demonstrating a breed of ignorance on a new level.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:58am@themachinist239
Report Post »Yes they are so intelligent they stick there heads in the sand.You want to think that we are wrong and stupid or ignorant.We aren’t we know the real truth.What makes you an expert.Huh.Live down there and work down there?On the take from them or the islamofascists?Brainwashing the gulliable like you is their stock and trade.If we could just fix the drug problem it would all go away.If those who use wouldn’t it would all go away.Its all BS and you know it.The never ending drug war is another diversion to financially exploit us.Its also another means to obstruct obsfucate the real issue.The islamists will hide behind anyone thing cause that will conceal them,Both physically financially and in paperwork needed to commit both.In the sixties they hid behind the civil rights movement and La Costra Nostra.In the seventies it was the sandinestas.In the 80s and 90s it was a patchwork quilt of all of the above.In the last ten years they heavily hid behind farc.They are simply using the cartels as more moving target props.WALE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE BEANS.Yes the cartels have practiced violence in the past.It has never been on this scale,nor this much depravity..Extreme violence is bad for business it doesn’t matter whether the business is legal or not.You lose customers
from all aspects.This isn’t business this is muslim infiltration and exploitation of criminal enterprises on a grand scale.How did they get away with it?People like you refused to see the truth
themachinist239
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 3:10pmI don’t even know where to start with that tirade of nonsense. Paranoid people like you enjoy making unsubstantiated claims about vast conspiracy theories that have no basis in reality. That‘s what you’re doing. You are a sponge of paranoid delusion. There‘s no reasoning with people like you because you are not interested in proving what it is you’re saying to anyone but yourself, and that bar is LOW. I think it‘s safe to say most frequenters of this site don’t believe the things you believe, I have a little more faith in humanity than that.
Report Post »ProgressiveDeist267
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:04pmAs an American with a lot of Mexican ancestry I hate hearing news like this. The drug war in Mexico is just chaotic and has ruined North America (U.S, Mexico and other countries near by). I cannot see how living your life in danger for drugs and profit from selling drugs for profit.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:04pmAnd does Obama care about the fence?? Hell no! When it spills over into this country then what will his majesty do! And what pray tell is Mexico’s illustrious president doing.. to help his own people? Also, how many of these Mexican’s were killed with Fast and Furious guns… its so obvious that Holder will never take any blame in anyone’s death, nor will he ever be held accountable! He thinks everyone but himself is expendable! Lord God in Heaven please help us!
Report Post »vermindust
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:42pmWhat will Obama do? Dear Abby, he will have no choice but to suspend the constitution for the duration of the emergency. Once you assume they are malicious rather than inept it’s clear enough what happens next.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:05pm@verrandust
Report Post »Just as soon as you take your own advice and stop telling people how stupid they are when in fact its you thats ignorant.
objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:14pm@Verminquist
Report Post »Sorry about the post.I misread the name of the poster.Thought you were machinist.
ejelectric
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:00pmI dont believe its Mexican heritage thats the problem? Its the cartels and muslim extremists who are trying to take control and showing it in their evil ways. So glad I live nowhere near that area!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:48pmholders guns at work
Report Post »Blitz
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:46pmDon’t worry were safe the boarders are secure. It even has a moat with gators in it to protect us. Well, that‘s what I’ve heard.
Report Post »Stew57
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:38pmAnd illegals here wave the mexican flag around, proud of mexican heritage. It is corrupt plain and simple.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:36pm…
Report Post »Do you really think just drugs, are behind all these savage murders?
In my opinion, Islamists (Muslims) are behind these killings.
Islamists are illegally flowing into the U.S. through Mexico, in record numbers.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:58pmRadical Islam is teaching them these tactics one way or another…
Report Post »Donttredonme
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:26pmhahahaha drinking the spooky-coolaid these days?
Report Post »themachinist239
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:26amLEADNOTFOLLOW, if you think Islamic terrorism and Mexican drug cartel violence are linked, you are are beyond stupid. Statements like these are testaments to the disinformation Americans take in on a daily basis. You’ve taken bits of information about violence all over the world and mash them into one nonsensical conspiracy theory after another, almost always driven by fear and paranoia of enemy you’ve been told is capable of ANYTHING. Yeah these cartels MUST be controlled by our other enemies on the other side of the globe, right? After all it’s not like our country is the engine fueling the massive consumption of illegally imported narcotics, is it? Ya know, I‘m starting to see the importance of teaching our kids ’critical thinking’ skills at an early age.
Report Post »krenshau
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:34pmThe gangs in Mexico are evil.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 2:26pmRight on the stinkin’ border no less…
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