Mexican army: Zetas leaders ordered killing of 49

Houston Chronicle ^ | May 21, 2012

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MEXICO CITY — The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, then had banners hung around the country denying responsibility in an effort to have their enemies blamed for the massacre.

The allegation came during a news conference to present the alleged Zetas local leader detained in the killings, Daniel Jesus Elizondo Ramirez. He allegedly got orders from Zetas leaders Miguel-Angel Trevino Morales and Heriberto Lazcano to dump the bodies in the town square of Cadereyta in the border state of Nuevo Leon.

Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said Elizondo Ramirez, despite his nickname of "El Loco," or the Crazy One, apparently got nervous about dumping the hacked-up bodies in the town and instead dumped them on a highway outside Cadereyta. The bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found May 13.

A video posted later on a Mexican website that covers drug crimes showed gunmen in the dark dumping the bodies and unfurling a banner claiming responsibility for the killings signed by the Zetas, who are locked in a battle with the rival Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. Villegas said another suspect who is still at large made the videotape.

In the days after the bodies were found, banners appeared on freeway overpasses in other Mexican states denying that the Zetas were responsible.

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Army soldiers escort Daniel Ramirez, alias "El Loco," to his media presentation in Mexico City, Monday, May 21, 2012. Ramirez is believed to be a member of the Zetas drug cartel allegedly involved in the dumping of more than 40 hacked-up bodies on a highway outside the city of Cadereyta near Monterrey. The bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found May 13. Photo: Alexandre Meneghini/ AP

[70times7]

SHE MUST BE STOPPED!!!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"Zetas local leader detained in the killings, Daniel Jesus Elizondo Ramirez"

If this is the cultural "catholicism" the liberal European catholics want to import to the US they think will "shore up their power", they really truly need their heads examined.

[ought-six]

Hell, that guy looks like an average Chicago “yute” (well, depending on the neighborhood; in Pilsen, Little Village, Bensenville, Glendale Heights, Waukegan, and about two dozen more towns and villages in the Chicagoland area, that guy would fit right in).

[MrEdd]

Terrible writing.

This isn’t “hyper violence” for Mexico. Why, there are less than four digits in the body count for heaven’s sake. For Mexico, this Is a scuffle.

[davetex]

Anyone notice the rifles?

FN SCAR?

Hard to tell from the pic.

[Joe Brower]

The light's pretty dim, but they sure look like FN SCARs to me.

Nice hardware. I'm guessing it's courtesy of the US taxpayer, via the never-intended-to-be-ended WOD.