Mexico City's mayor who survived two drug gang assassination attempts found beaten to death and dump - Polidicks

[img]http://i.imgur.com/6kX70.jpg[/img] Brave: Dr Maria Santos Gorrostieta has been found beaten to death at the side of a road. She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs and survived two assassination attempts, the first of which claimed the life of her husband -Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned -She defied Mexico's powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down -She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter -The former mayor leaves behind three children [img]http://i.imgur.com/OGjnG.jpg[/img] Murder: The corpse of Dr Gorrostieta, found by farm workers from San Juan Tararameo. She had been burned, beaten and stabbed [quote]She had survived two assassination attempts which claimed the life of her first husband and left her with horrific wounds that never really healed. But despite being a marked woman, Maria Santos Gorrostieta remained defiant to the very end. With unimaginable courage, the 36-year-old stood up to the drugs gangs that had ravaged Mexico and Tiquicheo, the district where she once served as mayor. When some doubted that she had been shot, Gorrostieta bared the scars that riddled her flesh and swore she would never give in. It was almost inevitable that she would eventually pay for her bravery with her life. Gorrostieta's body - stabbed, burned, battered and bound at wrist and ankle - was found dumped by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township. She left behind two sons and a daughter. Her second husband Nereo Delgado Patinoran, understood to have vanished at the same time she did, is still missing. She disappeared on Monday, November 12. She had left home early to take her youngest daughter to school, just before 8.30am. She helped her daughter into the white van that she drove. Her two boys had gone to school by themselves. During the trip, while on a northern street in the city of Morelia, another vehicle blocked her in. In the full view of passers-by two men hauled her out of her van and started shoving and kicking her. Through her begging, she managed to get them to leave her daughter alone and witnesses said she almost voluntarily agreed to get into the car, which had black tinted windows. The El Universal newspaper said: 'No-one could do anything to help her'. Her daughter remained in the van, crying her eyes out, and seeing her mother for the last time as she was whisked away by her captors. Following the kidnapping, the family spent hours waiting for a telephone call, thinking she was going to be released in return for a ransom. But when the hours turned into days, they decided to report her disappearance to the police, which led to a massive police search until her body was found, some eight days later after she was taken. Gorrostieta had seen her government security team withdrawn in November last year, and then her police escort in January. The decision has provoked much soul-searching in Mexico which has been torn apart by brutal drug cartels. She had become an icon in Mexico for her work against the gangs and had been described as a heroine of the 21st century. Gorrostieta was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008. Almost immediately, she received threats. The first assassination attempt came in October 2009 when the car she was travelling in with her first husband Jose Sanchez came under fire from gunmen in the town of El Limone. The attack claimed his life but Gorrostieta lived. An attempt had been made on Sanchez's life earlier that year, but he managed to escape the armed mob who came after him. Gorrostieta bravely battled back from her injuries in the face of overwhelming tragedy, but she was not destined to know peace. The next attempt on her life was just three months later, when an masked group carrying assault rifles ambushed her on the road between Michoacan and Guerreo state. The van she was traveling in was peppered by 30 bullets. Three hit her. This time Gorrostieta's injuries were more severe, leaving multiple scars and forcing her to wear a colostomy bag. She was left in constant pain. A reporter was also wounded in the attack, as well as her press officer and brother. In a famous act of defiance, she posed for pictures showing the extent of her horrifying wounds to draw attention to the brutality the drug gangs routinely mete out to their opponents. In a statement to the public made at the time, the devout Catholic said: 'At another stage in my life, perhaps I would have resigned from what I have, my position, my responsibilities as the leader of my Tiquicheo. 'But today, no. It is not possible for me to surrender when I have three children , whom I have to educate by setting an example, and also because of the memory of the man of my life, the father of my three little ones, the one who was able to teach me the value of things and to fight for them. 'Although he is no longer with us, he continues to be the light that guides my decisions.' She added: 'I struggle day to day to erase from my mind the images of the horror I lived, and that others who did not deserve or expect it also suffered. 'I wanted to show them my wounded, mutilated, humiliated body, because I’m not ashamed of it, because it is the product of the great misfortunes that have scarred my life, that of my children and my family.' 'Despite my own safety and that of my family, what occupies my mind is my responsibility towards my people, the children, the women, the elderly and the men who break their souls every day without rest to find a piece of bread for their children. 'Freedom brings with it responsibilities and I don’t dare fall behind. My long road is not yet finished - the footprint that we leave behind in our country depends on the battle that we lose and the loyalty we put into it.' After her ordeal she remarried and ran for a seat in Mexico's Congress of the Union, but failed to gain the backing she needed. Her family reported her missing on November 14 and her body was found three days later. A murder hunt has been launched and police are still searching for her missing husband. Mexico has been torn apart by murderous drug gangs since President Felipe Calderon launched his drug offensive in 2006. More than 50,000 people have been killed in clashes between rival drug cartels and security forces and about two dozen mayors have been murdered. The cartels have ruled the streets with fear for years, enforcing their authority with murders, bribery and torture. But after decades of using force to combat the gangs, it is U.S. lawmakers who are the criminals' biggest problem. Legalisation of marijuana, as recently voted for by Colorado and Washington states, may wipe billions of dollars from the cartels’ annual profits. And it has left politicians in Mexico with a tough question: How can they continue to justify spending money – and lives – fighting drug distribution to America when it will be legal in some states from next month? Mexico presidential advisor Luis Videgaray said in a radio interview last week: 'Obviously, we can’t handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status' [img]http://i.imgur.com/7paVw.jpg[/img] Sickening: Dr Gorrostieta shows the wounds she sustained from the ambushers' gunfire and the subsequent car crash [img]http://i.imgur.com/1kkJK.jpg[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/jocUn.jpg[/img] "Wounds: The ex-mayor was lucky to survive the second attack. She was left in constant pain and was forced to use a colostomy bag" From January to September last year, 12,903 people were killed in the country in drug-related crime, ranging from gang members, Mexican military and innocent victims caught up in gun battles. The Mexican government claim they are winning the war on drugs, but few outside – or inside – the country believe that. So corrupt are their police that they are rarely employed in combating the cartels. Instead, the country relies on its army to tackle the gangs while it attempts to rebuild its police forces. Public support for the drug war continues to fall as the death toll rises and the cartels’ profits rise. The business of trafficking drugs from Mexico into the U.S. is estimated to be a business worth between $13billion (£8billion) and $49billion (£30billion), with 90 per cent of all cocaine used in America originating from the country, according to a U.S. state report. The U.S. Justice Department considers the cartels as America’s greatest organised crime threat, while conceding that it is U.S. dollars that fund the crime ravaging Mexico. In 2009 a military assessment predicted that if the drugs war continued for another 25 years, Mexico’s government was at serious risk of collapse and the conflict would spread into America. A year earlier, the U.S. Joint Forces Command suggested a similar time-scale of collapse in Mexico and warned American intervention may be necessary due to the implications for homeland security. The problem of strengthening the Mexico/U.S. border even prompted President Barack Obama to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops in 2010. The two major cartels in Mexico are now the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas. The Sinaloa Cartel was formed when several gangs agreed to join forces in 2006 and is now led by Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. He is Mexico's most wanted drug trafficker and is believed to be worth $1billion. Forbes magazing even declared him the 55th most powerful man in the world in 2009. Los Zetas were originally a mercenary outfit of former elite members of the Mexican army by the Gulf Cartel. Consisting of Airmobile Special Forces Group and Amphibian Group of Special Forces members, they helped control parts of Mexico for the Gulf Cartel until its leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was arrested. Los Zetas took the opportunity to seize power for themselves and are now a 300-strong independent drugs and arms trafficking gang under the leadership of Heriberto Lazcano.[/quote] [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238577/Maria-Santos-Gorrostieta-executed-surviving-assassination-attempts.html]SOURCE & VIDEO[/url] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20381395]ALT SOURCE[/url]

Shame that the people who stand up against them are in such minority, allowing shit like this to happen Don't see how the cartels are going to dissapear until there's some serious military shit going on

That is a great shame indeed.

Most disgusting organized crime group imo.

I remember a post about her when she took office and how everyone in the thread was saying it was only a matter of time...

Jesus Christ, talk about a family being absolutely ruined. At the very least, I hope her second husband will be returned or found alive.

I have no words, it's absolutely disgusting.

Mexican gangs are the scum of the earth.

I'm still waiting for the day that the US decides to dump every ounce of their military strength upon the Mexican drug lords. Collateral damage would be extremely high, but I doubt there's any way to combat the evil drug men without people dying.

This woman is a hero in my book.

They really need to call in outside help.

Proves to show that action does need to be taken, I can understand if you want somebody dead (don't get me wrong I'm not supporting this in any way) but don't ruin that person's child. I'm sure the daughter has a horrible experience right there.

She's hot also what a tragedy [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitposting" - Starpluck))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Solidskei;38603174]She's hot also what a tragedy[/QUOTE] 2hot2die

Why is Mexico so fucked up?

[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;38602294]I remember a post about her when she took office and how everyone in the thread was saying it was only a matter of time...[/QUOTE] THIS, i thought i was the only one who'd still remember..

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;38603124]The only outside help they could get is from the US, but we're too busy [I]getting' dem terrurists![/I] This is a major problem that's happening right next to us.[/QUOTE] We really do need to be in Mexico, if they will accept the assistance. I don't care how powerful a cartel gets, they are still motivated by money and not ideology. That makes them infinitely easier to break than terrorists or insurgent forces. The cartels would be small beans compared to what we deal with normally.

This is where our troops need to be, not in Afghanistan.

Damnit Mexico get your shit together! Innocents are dying left and right and here; she's the example of what your country has turned into [editline]Ok[/editline] Also OP, for respect could you at least edit the corpse picture out?

You wanna end drug war? Start killing the serious drug cartel members. Don't lock them up if you want it to end or at least mellow down you have to start actually carrying out serious punishment. It's the only serious, viable, and quick way to either end or mellow it out in my opinion.

corruption kills

She was probably raped before they killed her .

[QUOTE=GunFox;38603365]We really do need to be in Mexico, if they will accept the assistance. I don't care how powerful a cartel gets, they are still motivated by money and not ideology. That makes them infinitely easier to break than terrorists or insurgent forces. The cartels would be small beans compared to what we deal with normally.[/QUOTE] True, I suppose. Getting people to die for something they believe in is much easier than getting someone to die to make someone else money. Plus you also have the upside that whilst a small cell of 2-3 people are still capable of committing acts of terror, trying to run a huge drug shipment organisation with much smaller numbers wouldn't really work.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;38603283]Why is Mexico so fucked up?[/QUOTE] Because people pretending to care are the same buying marijuana from a dealer supplied by the drug cartels.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;38603283]Why is Mexico so fucked up?[/QUOTE] A lot of it is due to US pressure regarding the failed "war" on "drugs" That doesn't change the fact that these gangs exist though and they need to be taken care of somehow. If the demand for marijuana and other high value black market products was met through legitimate and regulated sources then it would be harder for these gangs to use them as a revenue stream let alone safer for end users. They'd probably find some other way to get funds, though. It depresses me to read about the deaths of so many in Mexico and I really hope that steps are taken to properly address and resolve the conflicts that take place there on a regular basis soon. For now I'll continue donating to charities that try to help them.

[QUOTE=Satansick;38603640]She was probably raped before they killed her .[/QUOTE] Ummm, let's hope not, ok.

[QUOTE=Satansick;38603640]She was probably raped before they killed her .[/QUOTE] Well dude, no shit. Lets just leave it at that

[QUOTE=Satansick;38603640]She was probably raped before they killed her .[/QUOTE] Some things are just better unsaid dude.

She survived two assassination attempts, that's pretty bad ass.

feel bad cause i know damn well it wasn't just a beat to the death or quick kill. It was a ton of toture and rape. :\