What a garden spot. Death at our doorstep. Drone attacks on that festering sewerhole would improve it. And Obama/Holder/Napolitano do nothing about protecting our borders.
Ya gotta wonder how many guns from Fast and Furious were involved in this gruesome slaughter.
there sure is lots of violence in Mexico. Holy Toledo.
And yet we keep hearing these radio ads here in the border region, come on down to Mexico, it’s a fiesta every day, come visit and all that.
Maybe the tourist areas have some security, maybe. Well, I’m not going to risk it, personally.
ping (other related articles at linked BBC website)
While this is attributable to the cartel wars, I am starting to suspect that more is going on here than meets the eye.
Specifically, I wonder if some of these homicides are being done by the Santa Muerte cult. Santa Muerta, or “Saint Death”, is a blatant throwback to an old Aztec goddess, that in the Mexican mind holds some disturbing parallels with the Kali (goddess of death) cult of India, the Thuggees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee
Robbery death cults are particularly dangerous because they are indiscriminate in who they kill, actually seeing murder as a sacrament to their goddess, and do not carry symbols or other indicators of their belief. This means they can travel undetected before murdering and robbing random people.
Much like have a thousand of our more prolific serial killers operating at once, relatively independently of each other, but sometimes in bands.
In Mexico, the Santa Muerte cult has an estimate 2 million at least casual participants, and an unknown number of core followers. They can be both utterly ruthless and willing to die, because any death, even their own, pleases their goddess.
There is a strong aspect of poetic justice here.
The Zetas were started in '99 when the Gulf Cartel recruited several dozen members of the Mexican equivalent of US Special Forces to be their protectors and enforcers.
The Zetas split from the Gulf boys in 2010 and have been at war with them since.
Those who hire mercenaries because they are unable/unwilling to do their own dirty work are often consumed by them.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?