Mexican Blogger Decapitated for Reporting on Drug Cartels
- Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:33am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A portion of the bloodstained message left with a decapitated body discovered Wednesday in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo. The man was purportedly killed for Internet postings about drug cartels. (Image source: KLDO-TV)
The decapitated body of a man was discovered Wednesday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, purportedly in retaliation for his reporting on drug cartels on a popular social media site.
“This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn’t report on the social networks,” read a bloodstained note left with the body.
Police found the body at a monument on one of the city’s main thoroughfares, said a Tamaulipas state investigator who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to discuss the case due to safety concerns.
A photograph of the scene posted on a blog shows a handcuffed man lying on his belly on top of the bloodstained note and a chopped head nearby.
The message claimed the man, identified only by his nickname “Rascatripas” — meaning “Belly Scratcher” — was a moderator of “Nuevo Laredo en Vivo,” a website used by city residents to denounce crime and warn each other about drug cartel gunfights and roadblocks.
The gruesome killing may be the fourth since September in which people in Nuevo Laredo were killed by a drug cartel for what they said on the Internet.
The decapitated body of Maria Elizabeth Macias, “La Nena de Laredo,“ or ”Laredo Girl,” was found at the same site in September with a message that said she was killed for her reports on the website. That message was signed with the letter “Z,” which refers to the violent Zetas drug cartel.
Earlier that month, the bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging from an overpass in Nuevo Laredo with a message threatening, “this is what will happen” to trouble-making Internet users and also signed with a “Z.”
The Zetas have dominated Nuevo Laredo, located across the border from Laredo, Texas, for years.
“Nuevo Laredo en Vivo” has a message acknowledging Macias was a contributor and lauding her courage.
Chat messages on the website show a user with the nickname of “Rascatripas” commented Monday afternoon about the dangers of traveling on a riverside highway that connects Nuevo Laredo to Ciudad Mier.
Whether the unidentified man found Wednesday at a monument to Christopher Columbus contributed to the website is unclear.
“We have no way of confirming whether He is the person who was killed because we’re all anonymous,“ said a tweet by ”Nuevo Laredo en Vivo” in response to a request for comment by The Associated Press.
Still, users of “Nuevo Laredo en Vivo” vowed to continue reporting criminals to authorities.
“Those guys think they are so smart. They want to spread fear,” one user wrote Wednesday night. “As long as no one confirms Rasca was an honest citizen, let’s leave it as a doubt and continue on.”
According to the Houston Chronicle, another post written after the man’s death declared: “Let’s continue denouncing them, now that we’ve seen it burns them, hurts them….We have to continue. We can’t give in.”
You can watch a Spanish-language KLDO-TV report on the body’s discovery below, featuring images from the crime scene:
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (83)
oeaoho
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:46pmI could not understand any of it…how come they don’t have English speaking stations ?
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:35pmIs this the same guy, that the anonymous hackers tried to save by threatening the drug cartels? I knew this wouldn’t end well.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:03pmThese are the Gadianton Robbers.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:10pmYou went pretty far back in history for that one.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:21pmwon‘t be long until they drone strike people they don’t like here for news articles critical of the government, they already censor YouTube and Google…
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:33pmActual hackers beat computer hackers.
Report Post »comentsoldier
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:45pmL:egalize their trade,end their selfish power tripped insanity.
Report Post »JL320
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:08pmCOMENTSOLDIER, A large portion of the Zetas income comes from kidnappings, sex trade, murder for hire etc. Legalizing drugs will just make the above mentioned things a lot worse. Also I’m glad someone is finally reporting this stuff. This is happening every single day in mexico. Visit some narco sites, and you’ll find plenty of fresh hacked up bodies every single day.
Report Post »kennyg933
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:47pmLEGALIZE marujuana now, please! Put these guys OUT of business. The demand is not going to go away. As long as it’s illegal, the crime and the cartel will not go away. If it’s legal, it can be grown here and taxed here. “We don’t need no stinking illegally bought cartel weed.”
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 4:22pmHe hacked their site, they hacked his head?
Report Post »lembrandt
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:08pmThe son of a friend of our was shot and killed in a resort town, on a busy public street, in broad daylight when he tried to stop a thug from stealing his mothers purse…it happened about two years ago and guess what? Nobody has been arrested for the murder yet.
Great place Mexico – keep going there on vacation people.
Report Post »charleyrocks
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:21pmpeople can make a change simply say to your kids if you pay for their vacation a big fat NO TO MEXICO sooner or later the government will clamp down the right way the army, and I agree with hank jr send in the american army and take the dam place over.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:53pmcharleyrocks
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:21pm
send in the american army and take the dam place over.
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Who‘s gonna’ pay for that though?:
http://usdebtclock.org/
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:36pmOnly the parts close to us are really bad. I went down to the South and it’s beautiful. I had a great vacation.
Report Post »Mike N
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:49pmLet’s exile all of our convicted drug dealers and users to Mexico, moving the demand to the supply and keeping the problem concentrated in one place, rather than promoting its spread.
Without dealers and users here in the USA to introduce others to the habit, it would die out very quickly. The only reason the drug trade thrives is because the drugs can be made for nothing and sold in affluent countries for a lot. If we move the users to Mexico, it not only cleans up our backyard, but it also makes the trade less lucrative for the gangs. Eventually, the incentive to manufacture drugs would be relegated to making them for one’s own consumption, rather than mass producing it for resale.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:07pmThis is how to TAKE CONTROL of people, FEAR AND INTIMIDATION. Sound FAMILIAR????
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:08pmIf you are trying to equate this type of activity to anything done by Obama then you are a complete moron. You need professional help before you hurt someone.
Report Post »Brad from Texas
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:47pmSign me up. I’ll continue his blogging, as we all should….
Report Post »Emanuel Goldstein
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:40pmWe should station our military on the border and annex Mexico. It is time to establish a secure state south of our border.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:47pmIt’s loooong past time.
Report Post »CLEttinger
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:00pmWe should tell the Mexican Government stand back, we’re coming in and dealing with this problem. Go in kill the cartels and then send Mexico a bill for the effort.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:08pm@ emanul goldstien
Report Post »Remember, the federal govt. Has zero interest in protecting american citizens at all, they are prosecuting border guards, protecting drug runners, arming mexican cartels, suing arizona and alabama, signing up illegals for every welfare benefit possible, ruining our schools , hospitals andlanguage….. And we are to turn to them…… They are the enemy of the people. Period
KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:55pmEmanuel Goldstein
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:40pm
We should station our military on the border and annex Mexico.
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That‘s what the Soviet Union tried to do in Afghanistan and it didn’t work so well….
Besides that, do you want all those people to SUDDENLY begin voting in U.S. elections??
Report Post »eagledown
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:23pmYes, annex them and go Afghanistan on there @sses. This threat is on our back door, not in some cave 10,000 miles away; coming to theaters near you. These subhumans make al qaeda look like school girls. Oh, and and while were there we can assist the sixth largest oil producer(Mexico) to give us a barrel of oil for each of the 25 million illegals here bilking us for billions (Savages idea).
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:39pmThey feel the same way about us, since their gangsters derive all their power from guns we made.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:10pmeagledown
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:23pm
Yes, annex them and go Afghanistan on there @sses.
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Bad example:
“Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since U.S. occupation started in 2001. Based on UNODC data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past four growing seasons (2004–2007) than in any one year during Taliban rule. Also, more land is now used for opium in Afghanistan than for coca cultivation in Latin America.”
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
PPMStudios
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:40pmWell our own DOJ is guilty of aiding and abetting the cartels. The moron drug users in this country are also guilty of aiding and abetting. The cartels are nothing more than greedy vicious thugs who need to stopped! How do we stop them? Whack them all!!!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:21pmThe machete to chop his head off, supplied by american taxpayers, courtesy of Eric Holder and the boys…… Operation fast and scurilous….
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:16pmThe way to stop them is to take the economic value out of their business–either stop using drugs, or legalize them and let market forces begin to water down their government-sheltered monopoly! If we legalize drugs, we also need to let employers set drug-use policies and drug test at will, with termination a non-recourse option for violations of policy (say, for pilots, truck drivers, workers in hazmat situations, even private citizens driving a motor vehicle, where DUI is jail time.).
Report Post »ballsofFe
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:38pmTypical lazy reporting. They got the statement from the body, but what did the head have to say?
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:45pmI’m sure they have scientific video on that one-much like the French did when their Revolution cut the heads off 13yr seamstresses for sewing a dress for the Aristrocracy. Opps, did I say too much?
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:37pmIf that isn’t Terrorism, I don’t know what is! If the CIA wanted to take down these guys it would have already been done. The CIA is probably squeezing the cartels for money to fund their own black ops off the books… When the CIA no longer has use for them, they will be eliminated. Plain and simple, just like the Colombian Drug Boss. Or if the death of one of the Cartel’s becomes beneficial (more benificical than the income from their Drug Tax), then the CIA will also have them eliminated.
Read “The Secret Team” by Ret. Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (he was there during the bay of pigs…etc.. and was there before they had to sign secret agreements so he wrote a book describing how the CIA works). http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Team-Allies-Control-United/dp/1616082844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320953796&sr=8-1
It isn’t an easy read (not written very well) but the information is unprecedented.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:32pmRosie,
Report Post »You need to visit the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and especially chop -chop square in Riyadh
i could them maybe take some of your comments seriously – until then you are merely an embarrassing joke
ksw3rd
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:32pmMake sure to send this story to Holder and Napolitano so they know that things are safe and sound with no need for added border security. Gee, wonder where Z got the idea about decapitation?
Report Post »Aerocog
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:24pmOne of these days were going to have to go down there and clean up their mess, I say we cut of some Mexican cartel’s head to make an example of him.
Report Post »Larry Sheldon
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:22pmGlad to hear that the border is secure. Let’s go get the nasty Canucks.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:22pmThe purpose of “Fast and Furious” is to arm the Mexican Cartels so that when the signal comes from our puppet president that the “top down, bottom up and inside out” agenda begins it will easier to take over our southwestern states that border Mexico. Has no one figured this out?
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:20pmSounds like what democrats would love to do to FOX news viewers and conservatives I read daily across the web. They’re still in the dreaming about it stages, that is everywhere but Oakland so far. (eyes rolling) @@
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:14pmMexico has no gov’t. They have Warlords/Druglords. I see RoseEllen is Johnny on the Spot for this story. Sorry Tokyo Rose…other than Henry the XIII getting rid of his wives, Japanese who lose their faces (shakes head) Tis the Islamic Faith that loves to decapitate people.
That Afghanistan/Iran/Turkey/Syria/Egypt/heck the whole darn region…their main Agricultural Crop is Pot or Coke. They grow then ship to South and/or Central America. It is then shipped to the North and refined by the local Drug Kingpins. The Mexican Drug Lords have firm alliances with the Middle East and they are all just Diggin It.
Report Post »Ah, I’m talkin to the Choir on this one. All I can type is FOLLOW THE MONEY!. What Nations have stakes in the Middle East. What Nation has a major stake in a pipeline of oil across many Middle east Nations. Who is starving for oil???
Until we WE=United States gets RID OF THE DEMAND-we are just players in the game of Monopoly. Canada wants a deal to pipe the oil to us. Tree Huggers throwing fits over this…it will disrupt Bambi’s forest. Yet, if they take a look at the Alaskan Pipeline-they would see that not only do the animals return-they flourish around the pipeline. Heck, animals camp out under the pipeline for friction heat.
Apologies…got off the topic. Do your OWN research and just see how the Drug Cartels have changed their tactics and just who does it mimic….if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
BellaMia7
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:06pmWould be good to know how to get out of illegal restraints.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:06pmWhat a dangerous country Mexico is. It is wonderful to know that there are people there that are brave enough to speak out against the horrors of the drug cartels. They are in great danger as this report indicates but some are willing to continue and to them I say God go with you. My prayers are for the love ones of the murdered man.
Hey Barack, Janet, Eric do you think this this will stay on the Mexican side of the border. Really, I want you all to reassure me.
Report Post »lcovar
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:59pmThey know that this violence is coming to this country and this is exactly what they want.
Report Post »Just connect all the dots.
Mexico’s government are the drug cartels.
The last time I was there was in 1997 when my mom die and back then that town where my mom lived was ruled by the zetas. The sad thing is that most of the people thought that this guys were the good people just like what is happening with Obama administration right now.
Every day they find heads rolling on the streets like soccer balls and this is a true story. The media do not reports the crimes. The police don’t do anything about it because they are getting paid by the drug cartels. The police uses stolen cars from the USA. They don’t even bother to change the license plates on the vehicles. They display the license plates from all the states of this country.
What is happening to this country makes so sad because I know where it’s going. God bless America and the people that love it.
THE AUDACITY OF NO
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:04pmThese people are as evil and even more murderous than islamic terrorists. The refusal of our federal government to secure the southern border is downright criminal.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:57pmAll the La Raza meatheads complaining that the U.S. stole land from Mexico should thank the good Lord they are a part of the states. They could be living in that bedlam.
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:19pmThey probably work for the cartels and are working from the inside here to ease the cartel’s movements here. BTW our government is probably working hand in hand with the cartels as well.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:56pmand this is where the administration buries its head in the sand and pretends nothing is wrong..
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:55pmIt’s an unprotected terrain.
Report Post »IntegrityFirst
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:43pmThis is why the SECOND AMENDMENT is the MOST important to American freedom.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:50pmChristianity-the religions where it’s adherents decapitate people over money.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:53pmThis is the kind of terror Mr Obama wants to have happen in the states, with a disarmed people who will have no defense from the state sanctioned hits.
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:00pm@Rosie
Report Post »I don‘t think you’re doing yourself any good here, unless your intentions are to motivate.
Gonzo
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:25pmBig difference Rose Ellen, these criminals aren’t practicing their religion when they behead people (nor do they claim to be)…your Muslim brothers are.
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:40pmThe people decapitating others over money are acting against the teachings of Christ, R.E., whereas Muslims decapitate people in obedience to the teachings of Mohamed.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:42pmROSE “Christianity-the religions where it’s adherents decapitate people over money.
There we go again, generalizing. Just when I thought you were shaking off the socialism virus. Religion doesn’t decapitate people, sick individuals decapitate people. What does this have to do with Christianity anyway?
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:44pm@Rose-Ellen
You obviously don’t have a clue as to what a Christian is. Just because someone attends a service, gives to charity and claims to be a Christian, DOES NOT make them a Christian.
One MUST live as taught by Christ and the Apostles in the New Testament, to be a Christian.
Report Post »Lexee1
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:46pm@Rose-ellen
Those animals are NOT Christian…they are, however, trained by other animals islamist terrorists…probably hezbolla!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:04pmROSE ELLEN These are your people ROSE ELLEN..It is the Hezbollah Drug Cartel.. Remember? They are the people that Obama and Holder have been rendering weapons to.. There are no Christians involved here..Christians have never done such things…because then they wouldn’t be Christians….now would they?..We don’t fear you and yours ROSE MAN. Because the true God (YWVH) said “Fear not he who can kill your body..but fear Him who can destroy both your body and soul in hell…Oh yes Rose…there is a hell.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:51pmRose Ellen never posts a comment, she/it only replies to others. I am sick of her anti Christian, anti American replies and I believe she should have her comments yanked like they did Roe Smellin.
Report Post »Apparently you can not report a reply.
Just a suggestion to all Blazers………don’t respond to her, it only feeds her disgusting soul.
Brizz
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:41pmNews for all those who think its so bad here in the US, at least people have the right to say whatever crap they want.
Report Post »Brizz
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:08pmIncluding our good lap troll, Rose-Ellen!
Report Post »LiveforFreedom
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:41pmWe need to Take action on the Cartels, we could use their money than also!!!
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