Mexico’s Second Mass Killing This Week Claims 26 in Guadalajara - Polidicks

[release] Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican police found 26 corpses yesterday on a main boulevard in Guadalajara, the nation’s second-largest city, a local official said yesterday. The bodies were found in vehicles that were abandoned early yesterday near a local landmark known as the Millennium Arches, Jalisco state Government Secretary Fernando Guzman told reporters. The bodies, which had gunshot wounds and signs of asphyxiation, bore signs with the word “Zetas” -- the name of a violent drug cartel based in eastern Mexico. The deaths came one day after authorities in the northwestern state of Sinaloa reported the killings of 26 people in three different municipalities there, including the state capital of Culiacan. The Sinaloa Cartel is based in that state and also has a strong presence in Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located. Guadalajara, a Mexican technology hub, had seen fewer drug- related deaths than other cities since six were killed there in February by a grenade attack on a nightclub. This week’s killings show that any Mexican city can be hit by violence related to organized crime, said Javier Oliva, a security analyst at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. ‘Broader Area’ “We are seeing that this war between criminal groups is extraordinarily violent and is spreading to a broader area,” Oliva said in a telephone interview yesterday from Mexico City. Veracruz, an important port on the Gulf of Mexico, saw violence surge when 67 bodies were discovered in two incidents in September and October. In Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city, an arson attack on a casino killed 52 people in August. In Sinaloa’s killings on Nov. 23, 16 of the victims had been burned, while 10 were killed with high-powered weapons, the Mexico City daily El Universal reported on its website. The federal government will assist in the investigations in both states to ensure that “these crimes don’t go unpunished,” Interior Minister Alejandro Poire said Thursday at an event in the Pacific resort of Acapulco, another city that has seen violence rise. Since President Felipe Calderon took office Dec. 1 2006, almost 43,000 people have died in organized crime-related deaths, according to an Oct. 4 report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Mexico’s government estimates that drug-related violence shaves 1.2 percentage points off output annually in Latin America’s second-biggest economy.[/release] [video=youtube;oJ_kNDJUP5w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_kNDJUP5w&feature=feedu[/video] [URL]http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-25/mexico-s-second-mass-killing-this-week-claims-26-in-guadalajara.html[/URL]

Twistshock, what the fuck.

oh no, i knew a foreign exchange student from Guadalajara :( he was a matador. i say 'was,' because surely he was one of the 26 who died in this attack, and i should receive sympathy

Nothing unusual coming from Mexico, unfortunately.

The bastards in the cartels are heartless.

[i]Twenty six???[/i] That's horrifying.

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;33428490][i]Twenty six???[/i] That's horrifying.[/QUOTE] That's nothing. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Durango_massacres[/url]

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;33428490][i]Twenty six???[/i] That's horrifying.[/QUOTE] That's as much as 2 tens and 1 six!

This, gentlemen, is why you don't enter vehicles with people promising free candy. Nonetheless though, it's a tragedy.

[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;33429281]That's nothing. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Durango_massacres[/url][/QUOTE] 26 is still too much.

Sadly, this is Mexico being Mexico.

JUST FUCKING LEGALIZE IT FOR GOD'S SAKE.

Why don't they impose martial law in the damn country already. The government knows well enough that they can't control the drug cartels properly. They should let the army handle it, I'm sure they can deal with the cartels properly.

It would cost a lot of lives, but if they declared martial law and started executing any members of zetas they caught, shit would get done. Or, you know, just legalize drugs.

It seems like there's parts of Mexico that are as unsafe, if not more so, than the warzones of the Middle East and Africa.

[QUOTE=ionuttzu;33430256]Why don't they impose martial law in the damn country already. The government knows well enough that they can't control the drug cartels properly. They should let the army handle it, I'm sure they can deal with the cartels properly.[/QUOTE] Umm you know who the Zetas are, right? They were started by Mexican Special Forces. They have a number of Mexican Soldiers in their ranks, and they train their recruits like soldiers. The military would have a hard time with them.

[QUOTE=yawmwen;33430673]Umm you know who the Zetas are, right? They were started by Mexican Special Forces. They have a number of Mexican Soldiers in their ranks, and they train their recruits like soldiers. The military would have a hard time with them.[/QUOTE] Oh wow really? Well I guess the mexicans are fucked then

[QUOTE=Marbalo;33431886]About 25/31 of them are dead and or arrested, the new Zetas are nowhere near as efficient and threatening as the original gang, but still maintain the status of the most powerful gang in Mexico which means that even at their worst, they are still the best at what they do. Just an FYI.[/QUOTE] They still recruit ex soldiers and cops.

Oh look at that, Recco's rating another tragedy a funny.

[QUOTE=gRuKz;33430254]JUST FUCKING LEGALIZE IT FOR GOD'S SAKE.[/QUOTE] that's not going to change anything

[QUOTE=milktree;33442950]that's not going to change anything[/QUOTE] how do you think they get there money

Shit like this is why a real Rainbow 6 needs to exist.

get me the fuck out of here

God, the Cartel is so fucked up

Stop it! Jesus this is horrible

As if I wasn't already worried enough for my relatives down there.

[QUOTE=gRuKz;33445827]how do you think they get there money[/QUOTE] Oh I dunno: Protection Money Money Laundering Robbing Stores Car Scrapping Hits Mugging Human Trade But you know, just little things.

We need to build a giant robot that shoots knives and sell it to the Mexican police

That's scary as shit, I was in that exact same square next to the church a while ago...

[QUOTE=gRuKz;33430254]JUST FUCKING LEGALIZE IT FOR GOD'S SAKE.[/QUOTE] Cartels murder people for [I]talking[/I] badly about them, Cartels murder other Gangs over drugs. Now how do you think they'll treat people setting up their own businesses? There's no bigger insult than that, trying to make money off of [I]their[/I] trade. It won't be long until they burn down the business and murder the employees.