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Mexico denies that paramilitaries operate
WaPo ^ | 9/29/2011 | William Booth

Posted on 09/30/2011 8:58:42 AM PDT by mojito

MEXICO CITY — Top Mexican security officials said Thursday that there is no evidence that true paramilitary groups are operating in Mexico, countering video boasts by a shadowy group of masked men who asserted responsibility for the torture-murder of 35 alleged drug cartel members last week.

A group calling itself the Zeta Killers said it dumped the half-naked, bound and beaten corpses of 11 women and 24 men at a busy intersection in the tourist zone of Veracruz last week.

The bodies spilled out of two abandoned trucks just a block from the hotel where Mexico’s state and federal prosecutors were gathering for a meeting. Eleven other bodies were scattered around the coastal city a day later.

In a video released this week to local media and posted on the Internet, the Zeta Killers said that “our only objective is the Zetas,” the criminal organization founded by former Mexican special forces soldiers who now specialize in arms, drugs, sex and human trafficking.

In the video, the Zeta Killers vowed that the vigilantes would not kidnap or extort ordinary residents. The video showed dozens of heavily armed, burly men, their faces covered with black masks, posing for the camera and promising to work for the people.

But who, really, are the Zeta Killers?

Mexico’s security spokeswoman, Alejandra Sota, said Thursday that there is no evidence that paramilitaries operate in Mexico — meaning groups supported by the state or powerful backers or composed of ordinary residents who seek rough justice.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
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Let's play let's pretend!
1 posted on 09/30/2011 8:58:46 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

Is it the Rio Grande or De Nile?


2 posted on 09/30/2011 9:01:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: mojito

About time Los Pepes showed up. They need to hit them hard, assets, riches, families, all.


3 posted on 09/30/2011 9:01:30 AM PDT by eureka! (Bless Our Troops. D*mn the Left.)
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To: mojito

?Who ju goin’ to beleef—nosotros o your lyin’ ojos?


4 posted on 09/30/2011 9:02:27 AM PDT by tumblindice (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: mojito

It’s funny how history repeats itself....These Mexican Drug lords are copying straight out of Pablo Escobar. Los Pepes anyone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Pepes

(If anyone wants to an interesting book to read Killing Pablo about the agents who took down Escobar is pretty good).


5 posted on 09/30/2011 9:04:34 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: mojito

I viewed the photographs of the 35 bodies and noticed something odd. The men’s hands were zip-tied behind their backs. But the women’s hands were zip-tied to their torsos. To zip-tie wrists to torsos takes quite a few ties and quite a bit of time. Most of the men were wearing pants. The women appeared naked. Are they rapping? Were the dead tortured? If they were, what for? Why were these people selected? Where they off the street or actually working for the other side? If they worked for the other side why not just make them an offer they don’t dare refuse?

What is the purpose of the mass-murders? Why not just dispose of the bodies instead of displaying them? What is gained by the display?

The answer to the drug violence problem is to issue a gun to every adult man and woman and show them how to use it. America is now the most armed society on earth and gun related killings are WAY below those in disarmed countries.


6 posted on 09/30/2011 9:10:56 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: mojito
I just hope they don't turn around and start killing eeeeeeeevil capitalist Americans. Don't get me wrong, kill all the drug dealers they want. But if they are angry with an ax to grind, we don't know where it will end. A year from now, they could declare war on border patrol agents and encourage “reconquista”
7 posted on 09/30/2011 9:17:54 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: Gen.Blather

“Why not just dispose of the bodies instead of displaying them? What is gained by the display?”

The killers want to terrorize the general population.


8 posted on 09/30/2011 9:23:50 AM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Gen.Blather

“The women appeared naked. Are they rapping?”

I’d say that depends on the rappers. Some are pretty violent in their raps.


9 posted on 09/30/2011 9:24:54 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Very clever play on werds!!!

I like it...


10 posted on 09/30/2011 10:19:14 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: mojito
Does ANYBODY have Saddam's "Official" Spokesman sayin....
"There are NO U.S.A. Tanks in Baghdad."....*snickering*

11 posted on 09/30/2011 10:25:47 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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To: Gen.Blather
What is the purpose of the mass-murders?

very simple....Terror, Is to terrorize the populace...

One man w/ a gun can control 100 people (sheeple :) than not.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the
millstones of taxation and inflation.....
Vladimir Lenin


12 posted on 09/30/2011 10:42:58 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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