Burned bodies found in Tijuana street following drug violence

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Source: Deutsche Welt

Assistant Baja California state attorney Salvador Ortiz said the six unidentified men were shot dead early Monday morning and their corpses set on fire. According to a report from the state attorney's office another eight men were killed over the weekend in separate attacks. The execution-style killings pointed to a resurgence in violence between feuding Tijuana drug cartels.

"It's a situation that obviously worries us," Ortiz said, counting up the weekend's toll on his fingers while speaking to reporters outside the city police station. He stated that one of burned bodies had been handcuffed, while others had their heads wrapped in plastic bags. Ortiz said investigators still do not know if the weekend killings were related to the burned bodies. A Tijuana police officer is the chief suspect in a triple shooting over the weekend.

Also Monday, police in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found the decapitated body of a man wrapped in a tarp and dumped on a street in the city of Culiacan. The head and a threatening note were found nearby inside a plastic bag, said a state police official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak about the case. Ten decapitated bodies, including Monday's victim, have been found throughout Culiacan in the past week.

President Felipe Calderon has deployed 25,000 soldiers across the country to wrest back territory from drug gangs, which have responded with bold attacks on the military and police. More than 4,000 people have been killed in turf wars, assassinations and shootouts since December 2006, when Calderon took office.

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Hmmm, not "drug violence," but "prohibition violence."

And now Congress has approved $1.6 billion for Mexico so we can have some more. Sweet.

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1. Ho-hum, just another day in Mexico's drug war.

Mexico pays the price for America's war on the drugs it loves to hate (or is it hates to love?)