27 bodies found after suspected drug attacks in north Mexico

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: AFP

Mexican police found eight bodies, two of them decapitated, in the northwestern border city of Tijuana, and 19 others after separate attacks further east in the border state of Chihuahua in the past 24 hours.

Border areas where rival drug cartels are battling for control of key routes into the United States are among the worst hit in escalating violence across Mexico this year in which almost 3,500 have died, according to local media.

Attacks have increased despite a government crackdown on drug-related violence including the deployment of 36,000 troops across the country.

Police in Tijuana found five bodies with their hands and feet tied and heads wrapped in tape on Friday, as well as two headless bodies and one other body, making a total of 42 dead in one week.



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Looks more like death squads than a drug lords war

[Super62]

1. I was in TJ

Last Friday and there was a big Police action on Revolucion. About 2o Policia cars and a helicopter gunship. We didn't realize just how bad things are getting down there.

[puerco-bellies]

2. I stopped going there 2 years ago.

Ali and I bought a VW Syncro (4X4) Van 2 years ago with the intention of using it to surf farther down the southern Baja Coast. The people that we were planning to go with started warning us not to cross the boarder after running in to more and more trouble there. Most of these people had been surfing Mexico for decades, and now refuse to return because of the danger.

[Duer 157099]

3. Shit... I hope Nancy wasn't there

Oops, sorry, mixing up reality with TV again (Weeds)

Same thing happened during the So Cal fires, I was sure she was involved somehow, and turns out she was.

[ohio2007]

4. but the tourism industry was about to be taxed and drug cartels won't give the govt a cut

Mexico seeks to legalize smalltime pot, cocaine use

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3523673&mesg_id=3523673

coincidence ?

[geminifemini]

5. End the "war"

on drugs.  All it does is make the wrong people richer and
more dangerous.
We don't have the money for it anyway.