Bodies hung from bridge in Cuernavaca, Mexico

[alp227]

Source: BBC News

Police in Mexico say they have found four bodies hung from a bridge in an affluent town south of Mexico City.

The four men had been decapitated and mutilated before being hung by their ankles from the bridge outside Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos.

A message had been left with their heads warning that anyone supporting Edgar Valdez would risk a similar fate.

Edgar Valdez is reportedly fighting Hector Beltran Leyva for control of the influential Beltran Leyva drug cartel.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11054730

[mike r]

1. This is getting out of control. Daily life in Ciudad Juarez (GRAPHIC WARNING):

Ciudad Juarez, Aug 2010 - Reuters

[xultar]

2. WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK FUCK!!!!!

[tomm2thumbs]

4. took the words right out of my speechless mouth

[Canuckistanian]

3. I do hope the corpse didn't spoil their meal

If life ever got like that, I'd be moving - NOW.

[a la izquierda]

8. where's your link?

[mike r]

9. Reuters/Getty photo slide show posted by:

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/915791/Murder-capital-of-the-world-Bleeding-corpses-have-become-a-common-sight-on-Mexicos-drug-riddled-streets.html

(NOTW. Yeah, I know)

A wider version is shown on the story page.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. graphic from the article is also disturbing

I keep looking for the 'Mexican Federal Government' section

[Bobbieo]

6. Time to legalize pot in the US for a start.. What is happening to all of those US seniors who

retired to Mexico for the "good life"?

[bitchkitty]

22. Pot? You mean cocaine.

I don't think any pot comes from Mexico anymore; of course I live in Oregon so my viewpoint might be different. I wouldn't buy pot, much less Mexican pot.

[Javaman]

18. That's the disputed territory. nt

[burrowowl]

19. Can you post a link

to this map.

Thanks

[Submariner]

7. A Mexico blogger is putting up the photos and videos

of the gang wars. These are very graphic and disturbing, so be forewarned.

http://www.blogdelnarco.com/p/exclusividad.html

[Oldenuff]

10. Wow!

If we keep up the "War on (some) Drugs" for another 3 or 4 years,we'll be able to just walk in and take over the country,because there won't be anyone left to resist.The "War on (some) Drugs!Is there anything it can't do?


:sarcasm:

[timo]

11. maps wrong

the map also does not take into account certain branches of government who are the 9th and 10th cartels.

[superconnected]

12. I don't believe legalizing drugs - even ALL drugs - would stop this

I think people would be out killing the competition for sales even more. I think the real focus in Mexico is Cocaine and Heroin. To think this is all about pot is ludicrous.

[John Q. Citizen]

15. Economically, the pot is about 80-85 percent of the the total receipts. Lots of people

smoke pot.

Not so many do coke or heroin. The pot is a much bigger market and in many ways much more lucrative because it doesn't require all the processing either coke or heroin take. Plus it's 100% owned. Coke is grown and processed other places and is just trans-shipped through Mexico. Heroin is both grown and processed as well as transshipped through Mexico.

Legalizing pot would go along way to stop the violence. It would completely destroy the black market.

And pot is, relatively speaking, harmless. It's prohibition is deadly.

[Lightning Count]

20. The question is would the cartels allow the legal sale of pot without a blood battle.

Unlikely. How would you like to be the first store in Nuevo Laredo to start selling pot legally?

Another question is whether legal pot would be cheaper than illegal pot after taxes or whether the potency would be the same, worse, or better. If it is not, the black market will still exist.

[John Q. Citizen]

21. It's already being produced and sold legally in many US states for it's medicinal value.

It's quality is higher than imported pot, and it's far cheaper right now today than it was a few years ago, as a direct result of legalization for medical use

The next logical step is for CA to legalize cannabis for all adults, and that will be the beginning of the end for thew Mexican cartels.

Sure they will hang on to their niche cocaine and heroin supply lines, still run guns, humans, and whatever else they can find to make some money on, but with law enforcement freed up from policing cannabis, they should be able to bring a lot of resources to bare on cocaine, heroin, methadrene, guns, and the people who run them.

Pot is the cash cow. The rest of that stuff is more work for less return.

[Lightning Count]

23. The only true solution is for it to be grown by everyone who wants it.

I expect the bloody battle to wage for at least 5-10 years even after it's made legal. Heroin, meth, cocaine and others will still be going strong.

[flamingdem]

13. To think Cuernavaca was THE place for US college kids to study Spanish

for the last few decades.

The drug war must be killing Mexican tourism.

[MountainLaurel]

16. Not just Spanish

That's where my husband's law school does its Mexico study abroad program. He was supposed to attend 2 years ago, but the program was canceled because of the swine flu.

[Bosso 63]

14. I studied Spanish in Cuernavaca, 25 years ago.

I didn't learn much Spanish, but I fell in love with the city and Mexico.
All I can say is that the world seems traveling in a hand basket.

[lunatica]

17. Cuernavaca is a beautiful place

My grandparents had a gorgeous home there which we all went to to get out of Mexico City. It's lush and tropical without the sweltering heat. It really is an affluent small town which never lost its colonial architecture and small pueblo culture.

this is shocking although not surprising.