Posted on 10/28/2009 3:51:09 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Lingo is grim as new terms spring up to describe violence
MEXICO CITY — Words can hardly convey how vicious, how over the top, Mexico's drug war has become. So those involved invented some.
The Mexican media now have a special expression for being lined up and shot, and another for being dumped in the trunk of a car. There are also terms for mafia kidnappings, for drug-gang spies and for the hand-scrawled notes hit men leave with their victims' bodies. The lingo is grim, but how else to portray such savagery as beheadings and bodies cut up and cooked in acid?
Herewith a partial, albeit macabre, narco-glossary:
Levanton: the kidnapping of one or more members of a rival gang or other enemy. Unlike traditional kidnappings, the point is not ransom but to torture and kill a foe. Victims of a multiple levanton may end up fusilados.
Fusilados: from the Spanish for rifle, to be executed in the style of a firing squad, or with a shot to the head, known as a tiro de gracia. See the shooting attack at a Ciudad Juarez drug-treatment clinic in early September.
Encajuelado: Based on the word for trunk, a body dumped in the trunk of a car. This is a common method of disposing of victims of a drug hit. Often, the bodies are bound and gagged with packing tape or are encobijados, wrapped in blankets. Sometimes they are accompanied by a handwritten narcomensaje.
Narcomensaje: A scrawled drug message, often rambling or peppered with misspellings. Such missives are typically meant to threaten rival drug cartels or government security forces. Messages sometimes take the form of banners, known as narcomantas, and hang from bridges or in other public places to demonstrate a gang's audacity.
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The Spanish word for ‘’rifle’’ is just as its seen, ‘’rifle’’ pronounced ‘’re fil ay’’. Fusilados’’ means ‘’fusilade’’ as in a volley of shots. Art imitates life for sure. I’m playing an XBox360 game,’’Advanced Warfare’’2. The sory is set in 2014 and Mexico is collasping violently in a civil war that is spilling over into the US....
Narco-stupido. Legalize the stuff, and all the profits disappear for narco-gangs.
The WOD is not just immoral, but also stupid.
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