Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/13/us-mexico-slayings-idUSBRE84C08420120513

Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway: report

MEXICO CITY | Sun May 13, 2012 10:23am EDT

(Reuters) - Authorities found the dismembered bodies of 37 people stuffed into bags and dumped on a highway near the northern industrial city of Monterrey in what appeared to be part of a string of brutal drug gang killings, local media reported.

The bodies were found in the early hours of Sunday on a highway, sparking a large deployment of local, state and military officials to the scene, daily Excelsior reported on its website. Other national newspapers also reported 37 dead.

The report follows a string of atrocities, including 18 people who were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second-largest city, Guadalajara, on Wednesday.

Authorities in Nuevo Leon, the home state of Monterrey, could not immediately be reached for comment.

[cali]

1. it seems barely a day goes by without a story like this coming out of Mexico

Horrifying and sad.

[Ilsa]

2. Less than 200 miles to the Texas border.

Pretty serious mess.

[spanone]

3. put the narcos out of business. legalize the drugs.

[Poll_Blind]

4. We have a free trade deal with Mexico which allow their truckers...

...into the US and our trucks into Mexico. But our truckers don't generally want to haul loads into Mexico because of shit like this, nor are the insurers excited to insure loads going into what is essentially an undeclared warzone.

This bullshit "free trade" agreement is yet another one way street.

PB

[Lint Head]

5. These stories are amazing. Any other time in history an emergency would be declared and the culprits

would be run down and arrested. It just goes on and on. I think the reasons are partly bigoted. The US seems to have an antagonistic view of Mexico as drug dealing foreigners and potential illegal immigrants and don't really care what happens over the border. There should be a better partnership because these things are not far from the US and could spill over the border. There are extremely desolate places along the border and it would be easy to hide the fact that this is happening here. Billing a fence to keep people out is not an answer. Cooperation would make for a better life and expand a better model for any person south of the US border to come to America.

Keeping drugs illegal is just asking for more of this to happen.

[ananda]

6. Ermm..

It's up to Mexico to handle this. Why they don't is beyond me, but it is up to them.

[Lint Head]

13. It's up to them now. When it happens here it will be up to us. I don't think mass murder

next door unaddressed will stay next door when it happens over and over. Not here is not an answer.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. How are we sure that all these murders are drug related?

[Swede]

8. Who else dismembers 37 bodies and dumps them on a highway?

Vampires?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Cute.

No. How do we know that the 37 people who were killed were part of a rival drug gang? How many of those people were actually innocent people who had nothing to do with trafficking?

[Swede]

12. Oh,sorry for being a smart aleck.

Yes,innocents are dying in this real drug war.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. On the contrary, enjoyed your flippant remark.

Big vampire and zombie fan here.

This is the quote that made me think the article could have been written better:

"in what appeared to be part of a string of brutal drug gang killings,"

People would dismiss those deaths too readily if the impression was that one gang was killing the other.

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. They become criminals by virtue of having been murdered.

"They must have been doing something bad."

[Baitball Blogger]

18. See how they're getting disappeared?

[JDPriestly]

9. Mexico does not seem able to handle this problem.

I don't understand why their government does not turn to the UN and ask for foreign military assistance in dealing with the criminals.

[Cave_Johnson]

10. Government is as corrupt and liable as the gangs...

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. The Mexican government has deployed tens of thousands of troops...

...to fight the cartels. Calderon called them out in December 2006, and it has only gotten worse since then.

The local police forces are corrupted, the federal police are corrupted, and its probably a safe bet that elements of the army are corrupted, too. You have state police commanders running death squads for the cartels.

At this point, even if we completely legalized the drug trade, the cartels wouldn't go away. They are so wealty and powerful and have expanded into other realms of criminality that they are going to be an enduring problem.

Many Mexicans are looking wistfully back at the days of the PRI dictatorship, when the government didn't so much try to repress the traffic as manage it. Deals were made and adhered to, and the level of violence was magnitudes lower. The PRI candidate looks likely to win the presidency in July.

[Aerows]

17. Horrible

Is this what we really wanted out of the Drug war, was dismembered people and cabals of drug lords? My answer is no, and I don't smoke pot or use any drugs other than alcohol and tabacco.

Can a pot smoker give me a good reason why this occurred, other than money and power?