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CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico — Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years.
The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.
"What's complicating the identification of all the people was that they were all headless," said Jorge Domene, the Nuevo Leon government's spokesman for public security, who said the other body parts were missing.
Domene said the brutal Zetas drug gang claimed responsibility for the murders in a message found at the scene.
The massacre was the latest in a string of mass slayings that have convulsed Mexico in recent months, many of them in the north of the country, where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes.
Video: Video of kid criminals stirs controversy in Mexico (on this page)
The Zetas gang was founded by deserters from the Mexican army who became enforcers for the Gulf cartel, which once dominated the drug trade in northeastern Mexico. Leaders of the Zetas later split from their employers and the two gangs have since fought for control of trafficking routes.
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The Zetas have also been at war with the powerful Sinaloa cartel on the other side of the country.
President Felipe Calderon has staked his reputation on bringing Mexico's drug gangs to heel, sending in the army to fight them shortly after taking office in December 2006.
But the violence has spiraled since, and more than 50,000 people have fallen victim to the conflict, eroding support for Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN), which looks likely to lose power in presidential elections on July 1.
A poll published on Sunday showed PAN presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota trailing front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) by 19 points with just seven weeks to go.
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The commercial hub of Monterrey was long a bastion of the PAN, and the local business community has been "livid" about the violence engulfing the city, said George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
"This puts the final nail in the coffin of the PAN in the presidential contest," he said after the latest atrocity.
Surveys show voters think that the PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000, is more likely to quell the violence. Its long rule was tainted by corruption and critics have accused the PRI of making deals with cartels to maintain order.
Tattooed victims
The headless victims have not been identified.
The bodies showed signs of decay, indicating they may have been dead for days, Nuevo Leon Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said. He noted there had been no mass disappearances reported in the state, so the victims could have died elsewhere.
De la Garza said many of the bodies were tattooed, which could offer a clue to their identities. The dead may have been migrants passing through Mexico to the United States, he added. Migrants have been targeted by criminal gangs in the past.
Violent street gangs in Central America such as the Maras have distinctive tattoos, though security spokesman Domene said the victims did not show these markings.
Domene said some had tattoos of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death" a female skeletal grim reaper venerated by both gangs and some broader, non-criminal sections of Mexican society. The corpses were taken to Monterrey and authorities said they would perform DNA tests. Thousands of Mexico's drug war victims have never been identified.
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Spiral of violence
The ? killings in Nuevo Leon were the worst there since 52 people died in an arson attack on a casino in Monterrey in August. That attack was also blamed on the Zetas.
Monterrey is Mexico's most affluent city and was long seen as a model of economic development in Latin America. But it has been ravaged by the drug war over the last three years.
The horrifying conflict has been marked by an escalation of mass slaughter in recent weeks.
Last Wednesday, 18 people were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
A week earlier, the bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge and 14 others found dismembered in the city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the U.S. border from Laredo in Texas.
Security analyst Alberto Islas said much of the recent spike in violence was the result of fighting over ? supplies from South America between the Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.
Increased pressure on Guzman's operations in Colombia this year had prompted the Sinaloa cartel to buy up a bigger share of ? from Peru and Ecuador, squeezing the Zetas' supply and sparking ? -for-tat attacks among the gangs, Islas added.
The fact that state and federal authorities had time and again failed to capture and prosecute those responsible for the brutality meant the attacks were only getting worse, he said.
"They're fighting across the whole country with complete impunity," he said. "The government has to send out a very clear signal they will stop the violence and find those responsible."
Late last year, several mass killings took place in the eastern state of Veracruz, which has been ravaged by the Zetas.
CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico — Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years.
The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.
"What's complicating the identification of all the people was that they were all headless," said Jorge Domene, the Nuevo Leon government's spokesman for public security, who said the other body parts were missing.
Domene said the brutal Zetas drug gang claimed responsibility for the murders in a message found at the scene.
The massacre was the latest in a string of mass slayings that have convulsed Mexico in recent months, many of them in the north of the country, where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes.
Video: Video of kid criminals stirs controversy in Mexico (on this page)
The Zetas gang was founded by deserters from the Mexican army who became enforcers for the Gulf cartel, which once dominated the drug trade in northeastern Mexico. Leaders of the Zetas later split from their employers and the two gangs have since fought for control of trafficking routes.
Advertise | AdChoices
The Zetas have also been at war with the powerful Sinaloa cartel on the other side of the country.
President Felipe Calderon has staked his reputation on bringing Mexico's drug gangs to heel, sending in the army to fight them shortly after taking office in December 2006.
But the violence has spiraled since, and more than 50,000 people have fallen victim to the conflict, eroding support for Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN), which looks likely to lose power in presidential elections on July 1.
A poll published on Sunday showed PAN presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota trailing front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) by 19 points with just seven weeks to go.
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The commercial hub of Monterrey was long a bastion of the PAN, and the local business community has been "livid" about the violence engulfing the city, said George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
"This puts the final nail in the coffin of the PAN in the presidential contest," he said after the latest atrocity.
Surveys show voters think that the PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000, is more likely to quell the violence. Its long rule was tainted by corruption and critics have accused the PRI of making deals with cartels to maintain order.
Tattooed victims
The headless victims have not been identified.
The bodies showed signs of decay, indicating they may have been dead for days, Nuevo Leon Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said. He noted there had been no mass disappearances reported in the state, so the victims could have died elsewhere.
De la Garza said many of the bodies were tattooed, which could offer a clue to their identities. The dead may have been migrants passing through Mexico to the United States, he added. Migrants have been targeted by criminal gangs in the past.
Violent street gangs in Central America such as the Maras have distinctive tattoos, though security spokesman Domene said the victims did not show these markings.
Domene said some had tattoos of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death" a female skeletal grim reaper venerated by both gangs and some broader, non-criminal sections of Mexican society. The corpses were taken to Monterrey and authorities said they would perform DNA tests. Thousands of Mexico's drug war victims have never been identified.
Advertise | AdChoices
Spiral of violence
The ? killings in Nuevo Leon were the worst there since 52 people died in an arson attack on a casino in Monterrey in August. That attack was also blamed on the Zetas.
Monterrey is Mexico's most affluent city and was long seen as a model of economic development in Latin America. But it has been ravaged by the drug war over the last three years.
The horrifying conflict has been marked by an escalation of mass slaughter in recent weeks.
Last Wednesday, 18 people were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara.
A week earlier, the bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge and 14 others found dismembered in the city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the U.S. border from Laredo in Texas.
Security analyst Alberto Islas said much of the recent spike in violence was the result of fighting over ? supplies from South America between the Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.
Increased pressure on Guzman's operations in Colombia this year had prompted the Sinaloa cartel to buy up a bigger share of ? from Peru and Ecuador, squeezing the Zetas' supply and sparking ? -for-tat attacks among the gangs, Islas added.
The fact that state and federal authorities had time and again failed to capture and prosecute those responsible for the brutality meant the attacks were only getting worse, he said.
"They're fighting across the whole country with complete impunity," he said. "The government has to send out a very clear signal they will stop the violence and find those responsible."
Late last year, several mass killings took place in the eastern state of Veracruz, which has been ravaged by the Zetas.
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thats crazy...............
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smh @ having time to dismember so many bodies.
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Mexico s corrupt and high off coke....I can definately see them doing this
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Shout outs to my ? Escobar and Jose
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And ppl on this board wonder why I say Mexicans is on the bottom of the totem pole.
It's like everybody from Mexico is ? up in one way or the other. -
What exactly do these people be doing to get their heads chopped off and mutilated? It can't be just money? If so that is so sad.
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cartel closer to texas
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Mexicans drug dealers kidnap babies and stuff them with drugs to get across the border. Just thought I let yall know.
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ItsKatBitches wrote: »And people are still trying to vacation down there...not I!
How much of this do you think spills over into Texas and other border states?
I know it's nothing this bad, but just the violence associated with it.
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dont forget the animals-quarantined no customs
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man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
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man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
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They need to do something.That ? been ? ? up over here on certain things
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man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about them the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
pretty much but priorities..we gotta handle Afghanistan first...
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Here are some random corpses:
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fiat_money wrote: »Here are some random corpses:
I know who did it..Them six ? standing around the bodies. -
man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about them the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
With the amount of Mexican gangs in the US wouldn't that be kind of stupid. -
Shizlansky87 wrote: »And ppl on this board wonder why I say Mexicans is on the bottom of the totem pole.
It's like everybody from Mexico is ? up in one way or the other.
im not even mexican...but wtf kind of conclusion is this smh
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MrSoutCity wrote: »man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about them the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
With the amount of Mexican gangs in the US wouldn't that be kind of stupid.
"Take the head and the body will soon follow." (Forget the exact saying, but it's something like that)
Basically, they're trying to cut it off at the source.
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From what I see, heard and experienced that's how I came to my conclusion.
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Shizlansky87 wrote: »And ppl on this board wonder why I say Mexicans is on the bottom of the totem pole.
It's like everybody from Mexico is ? up in one way or the other.
Yeah cause this is much worse than the cats over in Africa snatching up kids, killing their parents, and turning them into drugged out canibals all to fight pointless wars that only hurt their country but does nothing to the outsiders that profit off of their resources.
Let's just face it. The human race is ? up. That ? goes across color lines. -
its official........mexico and chicago are 2 places i will not visit.
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You right about that ? , but I bet they have more Africas going to college then Mexicans.
Plus you can't compare the entire Africa to one country.
And a lot of Mexicans have more resources then ppl in Africa. Hell America is right next to Mexico Lmao -
MrSoutCity wrote: »man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about them the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
With the amount of Mexican gangs in the US wouldn't that be kind of stupid.
"Take the head and the body will soon follow." (Forget the exact saying, but it's something like that)
Basically, they're trying to cut it off at the source.
My thing is wouldn't them Zatas and other ? start ? ? up over here as soon as we start ? with mexico? -
MrSoutCity wrote: »MrSoutCity wrote: »man i worked at the us east top intel center in the east(DMV area) that services the armed forces, FBI, CIA and all intel agencies...mexico will step in line soon.. that's all i can give away without being in danger hurting my clearance
Yeah, I saw something in the news about them the military getting ready to start Afghanistan/Iraq type missions in Colombia to disrupt the drug trade.
'Figured it would soon spread to Mexico too.
With the amount of Mexican gangs in the US wouldn't that be kind of stupid.
"Take the head and the body will soon follow." (Forget the exact saying, but it's something like that)
Basically, they're trying to cut it off at the source.
My thing is wouldn't them Zatas and other ? start ? ? up over here as soon as we start ? with mexico?
Maybe for a while, but only until they feel the effects of us cutting off their financing by fighting them over there.
Once they're cut off from their money, they'll eventually fall apart.