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2006-10-08 Caribbean-Latin America
Severed heads tossed on street in western Mexico
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Posted by Fred 2006-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Bowling for dollars reaches Mexico.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-08 04:32||   2006-10-08 04:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I doubt that dealership will be running another Fatwah Friday Sale.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-08 06:21||   2006-10-08 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC, one italian mafia (can't remember if it's the N'dranghetta or the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra or whatever) has supposedly the habit of using severed heads from prostitutes working for other groups to signal it is in slight disagreement with that said group. At least, from what I've read.
Organized crime really brings out the best in its members, be it in Italy or Mexico.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-08 07:45||   2006-10-08 07:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Well this is troubling. Car dealerships here usually just want an arm and a leg.
Posted by GORT 2006-10-08 09:56||   2006-10-08 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 We're Baaack!
Posted by Los Aztecas 2006-10-08 10:13||   2006-10-08 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Severed heads tossed on street in western Mexico

heh finally some work!
Posted by Dr Ferdie Pacheco">Dr Ferdie Pacheco  2006-10-08 14:51||   2006-10-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Reminds me of an old Benny Hill gag:

"What's that in the road? A head?"
Posted by Mike 2006-10-08 15:41||   2006-10-08 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 For those of you who haven't heard of it, the "Santa Muerte" (St. Death) cult in Mexico is growing by leaps and bounds.

Saint Death can be either male or female. When male, he is frequently dressed as a grim reaper with a scythe and scales (the scales may be reminiscent of St. Michael); when female, Santa Muerte is dressed in a long white satin gown and a golden crown (Muerte and the related Romance words have a feminine gender).

In this form, many devotees view her as a variation of the Virgin Mary.

In either case, it is a throwback to Aztec religion. It is disregarded by the Catholic church, and its chapels are sometimes shot at by non-believers.

The reason I mention this is that the Santa Muerte cult could evolve into a death cult along the lines of the Thugee of India. Initially they would seek to "purge" Mexico of whoever the cult fixated on as undesireables.

That could get pretty Aztec ugly.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-08 17:33||   2006-10-08 17:33|| Front Page Top

#9 I live in San Diego, and I've never heard of it. Maybe I'm ignorant, but it's news here. How big could it be, then?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-08 18:33||   2006-10-08 18:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't know much about it, but a quick google pulled up newspaper articles about adherents of the cult in Arizona and San Diego.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-08 18:49||   2006-10-08 18:49|| Front Page Top

#11 2004? Quick-growing cult. My apologies for not remembering that article...sh*t. I can't remember last week
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-08 19:14||   2006-10-08 19:14|| Front Page Top

#12 There was a last week?????
Posted by lotp 2006-10-08 19:31||   2006-10-08 19:31|| Front Page Top

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