Posted on 06/19/2011 4:51:49 AM PDT by Racehorse
In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficker claims fellow gangsters have kidnapped highway bus passengers and forced them into gladiatorlike fights to groom fresh assassins.
The elderly are killed. Women raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death.
In an interview arranged by intermediaries on condition neither his name nor the location of his Texas visit be published, the trafficker also admitted to helping push $5 million to $10 million a month worth of cocaine into the U.S.
Law-enforcement sources confirm he is a cartel operative, but not a fugitive from pending charges.
If what he says is true, gangsters who commonly practice beheadings, hangings and quarterings of bodies have managed an even crueler twist to their barbarity.
Members of the Zetas cartel, he says, have pushed passengers into an ancient Roman-like blood sport with a modern Mexico twist that they call, 'Who is going to be the next hit man?'"
"They cut guys to pieces," he said.
The victims are likely among the hundreds of people found in mass graves in recent months, he said.
In the vicinity of the Mexican city of San Fernando, about 85 miles from Brownsville, nearly 200 bodies were unearthed from pits and authorities said most appeared to have died from blunt-force trauma to the head.
Many are believed to have been dragged off buses traveling through Mexico, but little has been said about the circumstances of their deaths.
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"The stuff you would not think possible a few years ago is now commonplace," said Peter Hanna, a retired FBI agent. "It used to be you'd find dead bodies in drums with acid; now, there are beheadings."
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Simply go into the area with the military and kill the Zetas.
The only thing they will understand is their death.
We should use Mexico as a training ground for our Special Ops teams. Might as well kill them down there before we have to fight them in the states where we’re not allowed to use our military.
Seriously.
Seems to me the only option for captives is to resist the Zetas every opportunity possible, as they are going to kill them no matter what.
Simple.
If you’re one of those captured, the only option is to get on your knees and give yourself to Christ, pronto.
Looks like we trained them well!
“- the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.”
Psalm 74:20b
What is darker than Mexico?
They are refugees who have escaped the violence and insanity of their war torn country. Which begs the question:
Why are we in islamistan on the other side of the planet while ignoring the insanity right next door? Mexicans are neighbors and family, plus they have oil.
And our ATF is "helping" by gunwalking weapons to the cartels? Wtf, over?
This is frikkin worse than El Salvador and Colombia in even their WORST DAYS.
Invade.
Seriously.
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i seriously agree.
the number of innocent civilians dying right next door,
VASTLY dwarfs the number in Libya, or even Afghanistan.
...here, where our National Interest, is orders of magnitude more,
we do nothing...
(except deliberately HELP send more guns to the criminals?)
We must invade, and totally bomb their hideouts into oblivion, and assassinate their leaders. This is a cancer right on our boders. These bastards own all the tire and tire repair shops in Los Angeles in the Latino section of town. And much, much more. I am certain small town officials in New Mexico or Arizona and California are being bought off.
But only invasion and total scorched earth until President Bachmann, President Cain or President Palin is in office. Not while that twerp Obama is anywhere NEAR the White House, and the levers of power at DOD and CIA.
See Rome.
If told to murder someone like that in cold blood, I would just have to say, a) “Jesus, I am ready please take me now” and b) (to them) “just shoot me, then, I’m not doing it” in fact I would take a machete, head for the nearest Zeta, and hack HIM in the face (justifyable self defense under Canon Law), before I was invariably shot down on the spot. Darned if I would murder someone like to that save my own life. in a pitched match.
Great idea. I don't think Mexico is in much of a position to object.Burn the whole craphole country down and move the survivors to the south and take the oil.
The elderly are killed. Women raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death.See, we need to end the war on drugs now -- those are great ideas for a successful new reality show!
I spent a fair amount of time down in Baja covering the races (Baja 1000 etc) and there was one incident that will never leave my mind.
A good friend of mine down there who will remain nameless was a racer and he took me prerunning on the Baja 1000 course for about 100 miles or so in a pretty hot race truck. We were WAY off any main road and as far from civilization as you can get. We came across a few shacks (and I mean shacks) pieced together out of old plywood, sheet metal and whatever must have been at hand at the time.
“Juan” comes roaring into this encampment/village with a white gringo (me) in a $100,000 race truck and shuts it down. Out of one of the shacks comes what was, hands down, one of the most gorgeous women in that country, with a couple little kids hanging off her legs. She walks up to ‘Juan’ and I and offers us food and water.
Now bear in mind that we were so far from anything that we could have just as easily raped and killed her on the spot and no one would have ever known the difference.
And here is this woman, obviously with NOTHING to her name, being as kind and generous as the day is long. She wasn’t ‘afraid’ of us and wanted nothing from us. She was worried we might be thirsty.
There are some VERY good people down there. Some og the best I have ever met. Blowing the Zetas and their enablers in the Mex Govt. straight to hell would be a blessing for millions of Mexicans and would greatly help with the illegals we have to deal with here.
The place is turning into Somalia on drugs.
“Even the highway checkpoints Mexican officials operate along the highways between Central Mexico and the border, do not pose much of a problem, he said.
The trick is to send someone in advance to bribe a commander so a drug load won’t be bothered, he said.”
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And to think that these cartels just stop their bribing of officials at the border of Mexico and the US is foolish. They bribe US officials all along the major drug routes through the US as well. Take a look in Texas....most of the major drug routes and border towns are controlled locally by corrupt democrats. Big money goes into US politico’s coffers to keep the border open and keep the drugs running.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
We need to get out of Libya and Afghanistan and invade Mexico. Perhaps if we can destroy these cartels..the people in Mexico can build their country into a place where their people want to stay....instead of fleeing to the US.
Enough is enough!
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