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| More decapitations in Acapulco | |
| 2006-07-01 | |
The new discovery brings to six the number of severed heads found in the resort city this year. The heads were dumped in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that read, "One more message, dirtbags, so that you learn to respect." Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta. Neither the heads nor the bodies have been identified. On Thursday, police found the head of a former Mexican soldier, Hugo Carpio Garcia, by the main entrance to City Hall with a similar note signed by "Z." Authorities said it refers to "Las Zetas," a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel. Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in the heart of Acapulco's tourist zone. In April, the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that also warned, "So that you learn to respect." Four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office earlier this year. Acapulco, located 180 miles southwest of Mexico City, has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations. Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #5 Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta. No, they probably belong to two other decapitated bodies. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Chearong Unoper9371 2006-07-01 23:12 |
| #4 I can hear Elvis singing now: "Acapulco. De-cap-i-ta-tion." |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-07-01 19:53 |
| #3 Mexico had better start to reconsider its opposition to the death penalty, and soon. It is not impossible that they could return to the utter horror of their Civil War. To recap, Mexico under Porfirio Diaz was like Iran under the Shah, pushed to modern development too quickly. But unlike Iran, when Mexico fell apart, it was like the Spanish Civil War--a horrific bloodbath. Almost a million people were butchered in eleven years of chaos. It ended because of the PRI party and its iron fisted approach. Any civil war today would not be a popular uprising, but more like gangs oppress the people of Iraq. Literally a war against the government and the people. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-01 16:37 |
| #2 Mexican drug gangs are having a turf war with the recent arrests of Arrellano Felix leaders in Tijuana. This is a way of sending a message... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-01 15:57 |
| #1 Somehow I missed the first 4. What is this, the latest trend among thugs? Coming to a neighborhood near you - your gang can step up to the latest in violence .... Distance learning. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-07-01 15:20 |