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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 12, 2012 22:41:24 GMT
By msnbc.com staff and news services One person died in drug-related violence every half hour in Mexico last year, amounting to 48 executions per day on average, according to the Mexican Excelsior newspaper, a sign that the violence surrounding the country's powerful cartels continues unabated. A total of 12,903 were murdered in the first nine months of 2011, Excelsior and other newspapers reported, sourcing data from the country's Attorney General's office. Nationwide, 47,515 people have been killed since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed thousands of troops to drug hot spots, through to September 2011, the Attorney General's Office said on Wednesday. The deaths include those involved in the drugs trade, civilians and members of security forces fighting the cartels, according to Excelsior. The most dangerous city in the country during the first nine months of 2011 was Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, on the border with the United States, and the second-most dangerous was Acapulco, Guerrero, on the western coast of the country. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that two decapitated bodies had been found inside a burning SUV at the entrance of one of Mexico City's most expensive shopping centers, feeding fears that conflict was seeping into parts of society 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 away, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement. worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/12/10138166-one-killed-every-half-hour-in-mexico-drug-related-violence
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Jan 13, 2012 1:38:12 GMT
I don't think drug gang members killing other drug gang members is a problem. That's actually a benefit.
The statistics need to be more detailed. How many of those deaths were non-drug gang members.
If the drug gangs are killing each other, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 13, 2012 15:29:22 GMT
The problem is much greater.
Students that have written blogs about the carnage the cartels are committing have been murdered, reporters that attempt to write anything about it have been gunned down, a casino was set on fire with innocent people dying inside. They kill the families of police or military officials that take steps against them. They have beheaded people and left the heads at elementary schools, gutted people hanging from bridges. It seems to be a challenge to instill the most fear among the country. You don't dare speak out, even to your neighbor, for fear that they could be part of it. Areas of the country that were considered safe and extremely elite are now having the violence brought to them.
They have an extremely serious problem and I have no idea how they will stop it.....and it will spread into the U.S.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 13, 2012 22:21:49 GMT
The "drug war" would end overnight if drugs were legalised.
The crime bosses would have to turn to other operations to carry on making their money - which is why of course they regularly BRIBE politicians to KEEP them illegal!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on May 5, 2012 4:12:06 GMT
Mexico's gruesome and murderous drug gang war continues!www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/04/at-least-23-people-killed-in-mexican-border-city-as-victims-hanged-decapitated/?test=latestnews QUOTE: At least 23 people killed in Mexican border city as victims hanged, decapitated
May 04, 2012 Associated Press MEXICO CITY – The bodies of 23 people were found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall Friday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and escalating turf war. Authorities found nine of the victims, including four women, hanging from an overpass leading to a main highway, said a Tamaulipas state official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to provide information on the case. Hours later, police found 14 human heads inside coolers outside city hall along with a threatening note. The 14 bodies were found in black plastic bags inside a car abandoned near an international bridge, the official said. The official didn't release the contents of the note, or give a motive for the killings. But the city across the border from Laredo, Texas has recently been torn by a renewed turf war between the Zetas cartel, a gang of former Mexican special-forces soldiers, and the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which has joined forces with the Gulf cartel, former allies of the Zetas. Local media published photos of the nine bloodied bodies, some with duct tape wrapped around their faces, hanging from the overpass along with a message threatening the Gulf cartel. Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire met with Tamaulipas Gov. Egidio Torre Cantu on Friday and agreed to send more federal forces to the state, according to a statement from Poire's office. Nuevo Laredo was the site of a 2003 dispute between the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels that set off a wave of violence that has left thousands dead and spread brutal violence across Mexico. That year, then-Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas was arrested and accused drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, sensing weakness , tried to move in on Nuevo Laredo, unleashing a bloody battle. The city of tree-covered plazas and hacienda-style restaurants was transformed as the Zetas, then working as enforcers for the Gulf cartel, and Sinaloa cartel fighters waged battles with guns and grenades in broad daylight. Killings and police corruption became so brazen that then President Vicente Fox was forced to send in hundreds of troops and federal agents, and the only man brave enough to take the job of police chief was gunned down hours after he was sworn in. The Zetas won that fight and have since ruled the city with fear, threatening police, reporters and city officials and extorting money from businesses. They broke off their alliance with the Gulf cartel in 2010, worsening the violence across northeast Mexico. But last month, 14 mutilated bodies were found in a vehicle left in the city center. Some media outlets reported that the Sinaloa cartel took responsibility for those bodies and in a message allegedly signed by its leader, Guzman, said the group was now back in Nuevo Laredo "to clean" the city.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2012 7:42:43 GMT
I'd have thought that by now no-one in Mexico would want to have anything to do with handling drugs - that sounds far more of a disincentive than any state sanction.
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