This article was in last Sundays Houston Chronicle and I cut it out for my housekeeper because they always go home to San Luis Potese every summer.
They knew better than to drive in their truck but had planned on taking the bus....... until she read this article.
She then told me about something that recently happened to a neighbor. They were coming home from Mexico and got stopped on the road and their truck was taken.
Standing on the side of the road another truck stopped and they told them “the Zetas stole our truck”. The new gang said “no, we are the Zetas”.
The new gang took off after the truck and when they came back with it, they said “don't open the ice chest in the back, wait until you get to the river and dump the contents”.
They did as they were told and the ice chest was full of the heads of the first gang.
I have known this woman for 15 or 20 years and I have never known her to tell me anything that wasn't true so I believe her.
I believe it, and I agree that the corruption there is total. As bad as the Zeta’s are, I think the Govt/pols are just as bad. The Mex military is nothing but an enforcement wing for their ‘dealings’. Many a story down there of the same kind of things happening at Federalies checkpoints - cars taken, people vanishing etc. long before the Zetas ever came on the scene. With Mexican friends, I’m sure you’ve heard the stories as well.