Posted on 01/12/2012 7:04:41 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two decapitated bodies were found inside a burning SUV early Wednesday at the entrance to one of Mexico's most luxurious malls, feeding fears drug violence is infiltrating privileged realms previously thought safe.
Police recovered the mutilated bodies before dawn off a toll highway at a shopping mall entrance in the heart of the Santa Fe district that's a haven for international corporations, diplomats and the wealthy. The heads and a threatening message were dumped a few yards (meters) away, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement.
Hours later, the government released a drug war body count recording more than 47,500 victims in five years, echoing independent death tolls tabulated by Mexican media.
Local media published images of the charred car and reported that a note written on hot pink paper was signed by the drug gang Mano con Ojos, or Hand with Eyes. Mexican police had said the gang was weakened by the arrest of its leader, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia, in August.
The victims, a man and a woman in their 30s, had not been identified, prosecutors said. They said the SUV with license plates from neighboring Mexico state had been stolen.
The Centro Santa Fe mall where the charred car was found is one of the country's largest and most glamorous, housing high-end retailers like Coach, Prada, Hugo Boss, Saks Fifth Avenue and Mexican department store Palacio de Hierro. The dump scene was cleaned up so quickly that shoppers weren't even aware anything had happened.
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47,000 dead. That is twice the size of my whole town. That is about 10 times the number of soldiers that have been KIA in the Middle East in the WOT.
Just a thought, but might it not be better to deploy our troops to Mexico to help their authorities take care of the drug problem? I know (obviously) that their authorities would not agree - since they are almost as corrupt as the Obamaloon Clown Show of Felon/Cretins.
After all, at least with Mexico, we’re starting with people that have a civilized faith.
Muslim countries are doomed to forever exist in the past anyway. Perhaps strengthening our hemisphere might prove fruitful given that the mid east is already a muslim hell with Europe soon to follow.
(Yup, I know the many reasons this idea is not workable...but I’d rather see us work with Mexico - thereby aiding us in a very direct fashion - than throw more lives and money towards places in which tribalism will always prevail.)
Please do not post AP images, due to copyright complaint.
Illegal drug use in the US causes people’s heads to fall off in Mexico. I wonder how much pot you have to smoke to drown out the screams of the Mexican children when they see the headless bodies of their fathers?
Agreed. What is it now a privilege in Mexico not to be on someones hit list or to be protected by the law? Terrifying days indeed.
That would make sense except there are too many US politicians on the cartel payrolls and Mexico is running out of oil, so in the absence of a Drug War a whole lot of people would be out of jobs/offices.
Ping!
You forgot one salient point.
In Mexico, the formerly illegal drugs have already been legalized, but the violence merely escalates.
So much for the decriminalization solution.
Violence because drugs are illegal but guns are legal in the US. /sarc
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