Cartel murders reach high in Mexico
Sorry for the lack of postings, I haven't seen too many articles I wanted to put up.
Mexico’s organized crime death tally has now gone over 2,000 for this year. In comparison, the first semester of 2005 reached 677; in 2006 it was 1,003 in the same period ; and in 2007 the number was 1,410. The first six months of this year reached 1,935 executions.
Since President Calderon took office (on Dec. 1, 2006) there have now been 4,867 executions and this year’s current figure is 2,017. Just yesterday there were 21, of whom eight were police officers.
Three decapitated bodies, all repeatedly shot, were found yesterday (Fri.) in the trunk of a car in Culiacan, Sinaloa; one was identified as an ex-commander of the “Centaur Group” of the state police.. One of the bodies also had both its legs amputated at the knees, while the other two had only their left leg amputated, also at the knee. In the trunk of the car there was also a rattlesnake with its head chopped off and two defiant and threatening signs against the Beltran-Leyva drug group. There also were 509 - five hundred nine - shell casings in the trunk.
The chief, the deputy chief and two other officers of the Puruandiro, Michoacan, police department were returning from an out of town meeting Friday afternoon when they were ambushed and all four were killed.
Comment(s) »
» Leave a comment
- Your E-mail address is never displayed. If you enter it, it will only be visible to the blog author
- Since there already are comments to this post, your eventual comment might trigger a notification e-mail to the persons that commented before you.
- The line and paragraph breaks automatically
Comment by jim— 2008/07/06 @ 08:33 PM — (Reply)
Comment by Burns— 2008/07/06 @ 11:25 PM — (Reply)