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Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Four Decapitated Bodies Hung From Bridge in Mexico

Author:     OSWALD ALONSO
Source:     The Associated Press
Publication Date:     22-Aug-10
 Link: Four Decapitated Bodies Hung From Bridge in Mexico
Stephan:   It is very interesting to me that so many trends are reaching their crisis point at the same time. This arises, I think from the nonlocal presentiment people feel about the future, their interconnectedness, and the individual decisions they are making which, collectively, create these trends in the first place. This one is the culmination of decades of the insane war on marijuana. Just as Prohibition created the national Mafia families, so this has created the Drug Cartels. With 28,000 people murdered since 2006 in Mexico, the country is not experiencing just criminality. This is a civil war.

CUERNAVACA, Mexico – The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.

A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general’s office of Mexico state said in a statement.

The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.

Cuernavaca has become a battleground for control of the Beltran Leyva cartel since its leader, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed there in a December shootout with marines.

Mexican authorities say the cartel split between a faction led by Hector Beltran Leyva, brother of Arturo, and another led by Edgar Valdes Villarreal, a U.S.-born kingpin known as ‘the Barbie.’

The message left with the bodies threatened: ‘This is what will happen to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villareal’

Authorities said the four men had been kidnapped days earlier. The family of one of the men reported the abduction to police.

In western Mexico, police found the body of a U.S. citizen inside a car along the highway between the Pacific resorts of […]

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