Finding headless corpses in a Mexican ditch is as common as finding roadkill in America.
Via MSNBC
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.
Los Zetas are brutal and have weathered these drugs wars fairly well in comparison to say, the Gulf Cartel which has essentially been wiped out. Felipe Calderon is expected to lose his reelection bid in July due to his failure to stop the drug cartels from waging their war in every corner of Mexico. I guess frequently discovering mass murders is a drain on the electorate’s support.
