IT IS MEXICAN PRESIDENT CALDERON THAT PUBLICALLY STATED "Where there's a Mexican, there is Mexico!" HEAVEN KNOWS WE ALL KNOW THAT NOW!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon started his crackdown on drug cartels and corrupt law enforcement two years ago, more than 4,000 people have been killed. The death toll among law enforcement has topped 500. Kidnappings and violence are spreading across the border, and now the AP reports Mexican cartels have green-lighted hits against targets in the U.S. We’ll talk to Phoenix police about becoming the kidnapping capital of the nation and the rapid increase in other crimes linked to Mexico the city is coping with.
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From the Los Angeles Times
Remains of 12 decapitated men found in Mexico
The heads and bodies are found at separate places in Guerrero state, a hot spot in the country's drug war.
Governor says eight of the victims were soldiers and one was a former state police commander.
By Ken Ellingwood
December 22, 2008
Reporting from Mexico City — Twelve men were decapitated and dumped at separate sites in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, authorities said Sunday.
Mexican news outlets quoted Guerrero Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo as saying that eight of the men were identified as Mexican soldiers and another as a former state police commander. Earlier, Mexican media had said that the victims' close-cropped hair indicated they were soldiers.
Nine of the heads and bodies were discovered Sunday in the city of Chilpancingo, the state capital. The heads were bundled in a plastic bag and dumped at a shopping center, and the bodies turned up in two other locations at opposite ends of the city, authorities said.
Local prosecutors said three more decapitated bodies were found in a village on the outskirts of the city, the Associated Press reported.
The find came two days after three gunmen were killed in a shootout with soldiers in Guerrero. Mexican media said the beheadings may have been intended as retribution.
The website of the daily El Universal newspaper, citing unnamed state law enforcement officials, reported that a message that accompanied the bag of heads warned: "For every one of mine you kill, I'm going to kill 10 of yours."
Beheadings have become increasingly common around Mexico amid rising drug-related violence that has killed more than 5,300 people this year.
Most of the killings have resulted from turf wars among drug-trafficking organizations, which battle for the most coveted routes for smuggling into the United States.
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