Mexican Cartel Dumps 49 Mutilated Bodies on Highway
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Mexican authorities have found the dismembered bodies of at least 49 people on a highway connecting the northern industrial Mexican city of Monterrey to the US border. Mexico’s most violent organised crime-group, the Zetas, has claimed responsibility for bodies, as violence between drug cartels intensifies in a turf war.
In the latest series of horrific mass killings, officials say the headless torsos of 43 men and 6 women were found in the town of San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa, forcing police and troops to close off the highway.
Mexican authorities have found the dismembered bodies of at least 49 people on a highway connecting the northern industrial Mexican city of Monterrey to the US border. Mexico’s most violent organised crime-group, the Zetas, has claimed responsibility for bodies, as violence between drug cartels intensifies in a turf war.
In the latest series of horrific mass killings, officials say the headless torsos of 43 men and 6 women were found in the town of San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa, forcing police and troops to close off the highway.
According to Nuevo Leon state attorney general Adrian de la Garza, the victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location, and did not rule out the possibility that the victims were US-bound migrants.
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Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
In this episode, the Zetas, who control the area around Monterrey, the capital state of Nuevo Leon, claimed responsibility for the violence. Despite the Zetas’ dominance, they have been under siege from the Sinaloa cartel and its allies, the once dominant but diminished Gulf cartel.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Guadaluple Correa-Cabrera, who studies border and drug trafficking at the University of Texas, said:
[quote] This is a war between the two most powerful criminal groups in the country and their allies. They are fighting for control of the most strategic points and routes in the country. [/quote]
With Mexico’s presidential election just seven weeks away, the massacre will underline that whoever wins the presidency will quickly face the task of breaking that spiral of violence that has worsened in Mexico in the past several years.
For Monterrey, experts warn that its renowned business community has been besieged by kidnappers and extortionists that the city risks becoming a drag on the entire Mexican economy.
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