Mexico drug war: 32 bodies found in Veracruz

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

Mexican security forces have found 32 bodies at several locations around the eastern city of Veracruz, according to the authorities, only two weeks after 35 corpses were dumped on a busy street in the Atlantic port.

Just two days after the Mexican government unveiled a plan to lay down the law in the state of the same name, police and marines found the bodies in three different areas of the city, the navy said in a statement on Thursday.

The bodies were discovered in homes around the port as the military conducted operations under the 'Safe Veracruz' programme, the statement said. Twenty bodies were found in one house that was searched following a tip from naval intelligence.

More than 44,000 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a military campaign to crush Mexico's powerful drug cartels in late 2006.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/mexico-drug-war-bodies-found

[a la izquierda]

1. How very tragic. Veracruz is an amazing city.

I'm curious as to how this violence is going to play into the Mexican presidential campaign/elections next year.

[COLGATE4]

2. The Rethugs will have their mouth-breathing constituents in a

frenzy believing that hordes of Mexican narcos are poised at the border waiting to invade 'Merka to rape and kill our daughters. BUILD THE FENCE!!! OBAMA SOFT ON TERRISM!!!

[formercia]

3. "tip from naval intelligence."

"We left a present for you."

[LuckyLib]

6. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.

[formercia]

8. A little Pay Back

for killing their folks and their families.

[bemildred]

4. Now there is some real "drug war" for you. nt

[Uncle Joe]

5. This is Chicago of the 1920s on steroids.

Prohibition didn't work then and it doesn't work now, it's too bad we as a nation don't actually learn from history.

Thanks for the thread, alp.

[pitohui]

7. wow drugs were legal in mexico until 2006? and only uncle joe knew about it?

get real, drugs have been prohibited in mexico for decades

the war started in 2006

it ain't about prohibition, it's about drug billionaires pushing for legalization so that they'll be in position to be bazillionaires forever...and you're helping to push their dirty work for them

to legalize now is to give them a hell of a pay off for all the heads they've cut off

remove the drug cartels, execute the drug selling, murdering scumbags and then come back and yack about legalization of this "harmless" product

[tabasco]

9. LOL! There was no drug violence prior to 2006 and only pitohui knew about it?

[Uncle Joe]

10. Our several decade long counterproductive "War on Drugs" here in the U.S. has spurred demand

for the product in Mexico.

Cannabis has increased in value because it's illegal, demand for the product has existed for thousands of years, you're not going stop the use of it now with an insane, counterproductive, dysfunctional so called war against it.

The money from the product is what feeds the cartel's power, either to purchase guns from the U.S., from what I heard Mexico only has one gun store in the entire nation, or corrupt the police, judges and politicians to look the other way. Many of the Mexican People don't even know who to trust.

You can take out any cartel leader and execute him and one or more others will replace him, in some cases it will only increase the violence as organized crime fights over filling that power vacuum.

The only way you can win at that kind of Sisyphean task aka; "War Against Drugs" is to kill democracy and turn the U.S. into North Korea or Saudi Arabia and I imagine some people would still do it.