[QUOTE]MEXICO CITY --
Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican city.
Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez ordered flags on state buildings flown at half-staff and called for three days of mourning following the killing of Temixco Mayor Gisela Mota.
He blamed organized crime for killing the 33-year-old Mota, a former federal congresswoman who had been sworn in as mayor the day before she was gunned down in her home Saturday morning.
Ramirez ordered security measures for all of the state's mayors, though he gave no details on what that involved.
Ramon Castro Castro, Roman Catholic bishop of Cuernavaca, celebrated Mass at Mota's home Sunday and later spoke critically of a state where some areas are in control of organized crime.
"One theory could be that it was a warning to the other mayors," Castro said to reporters. "If you don't cooperate with organized crime, look at what will happen to you. It's to scare them."
Following Mota's killing, two suspects were killed in a clash with police and three others arrested. Officials said those taken into custody were a 32-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man and a minor. They gave few other details, though state Attorney General Javier Perez Duron said the suspects had been tied to other crimes.
Temixco, with about 100,000 people, is a suburb of Cuernavaca, a city famed among tourists for its colonial center, gardens and jacaranda-decked streets. "The city of eternal spring" was long a favorite weekend getaway for people from nearby Mexico City.
But drug and extortion gangs have plagued the area in recent years, driving away some tourists and residents. The expressway - and drug routes - between Mexico City and the country's murder capital of Acapulco cuts through Cuernavaca and Temixco.
Neither the governor nor prosecutors indicated which criminal organization might be involved in the mayor's slaying.
Drugs, kidnappings and extortion in the area were once under the control of the Beltran Leyva cartel, but that group's collapse a few years ago unleashed fierce competition among its progeny and rivals in Morelos and neighboring Guerrero and Mexico states.
In December 2014, a state lawmaker who was a candidate for mayor of Temixco from the same party as Mota, was kidnapped there. Authorities rescued him the following day and blamed the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which has been clashing with a group known as Los Rojos in Guerrero and Morelos.
Temixco also saw one of Mexico's emblematic killings of the past decade: The 24-year-old son of poet Javier Sicilia and six other people were found slain in March 2011, prompting the writer to start a nationwide movement against violence. Prosecutors said the seven apparently had gotten into an argument with men who turned out to be local members of the Pacifico Sur drug cartel.[/QUOTE]
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The sad thing is this isn't even the first time this has happened, I think it might have been a sheriff not a mayor but the same scenario - gang troubled scenario, young woman takes office, immediately killed. Seriously out of control in Mexico.
This has happened at least twice before in the last five years.
Always with the money.. Money and the drugs..
At this point if you're a Mexican in government and you haven't been shot at yet, it means you are corrupt.
At this point the Mexican Government needs to bite the bullet and get the US involved. They are so utterly fucked right now and can't trust anyone in Mexico to actually deal with these thugs.
[QUOTE=download;49459927]At this point the Mexican Government needs to bite the bullet and get the US involved. They are so utterly fucked right now and can't trust anyone in Mexico to actually deal with these thugs.[/QUOTE]
that worked out really well last time
is it possible to unfuck mexico?
[QUOTE=Saturn V;49460292]is it possible to unfuck mexico?[/QUOTE]
yes. stop buying drugs.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49460308]yes. stop buying drugs.[/QUOTE]
And buy Pepsi!
[QUOTE=Saturn V;49460292]is it possible to unfuck mexico?[/QUOTE]
Yes. Bite the bullet and dump the war on drugs. We're kinda fueling this type of shit with some of our buying habits.
[QUOTE=download;49459927]At this point the Mexican Government needs to bite the bullet and get the US involved. They are so utterly fucked right now and can't trust anyone in Mexico to actually deal with these thugs.[/QUOTE]
No. The US needs to stop being the world police and let countries solve their own problems.
Yes some of the laws U.S made help foster this, but Mexico is responsible for their own downfall - their people are the ones accepting bribes, becoming corrupt, etc. They allowed certain groups to roll around and kill other groups then took power for themselves.
U.S goes in and what to they do? Mexico needs to do their own dirty work.
[QUOTE=MR-X;49461056]No. The US needs to stop being the world police and let countries solve their own problems.
Yes some of the laws U.S made help foster this, but Mexico is responsible for their own downfall - their people are the ones accepting bribes, becoming corrupt, etc. They allowed certain groups to roll around and kill other groups then took power for themselves.
U.S goes in and what to they do? Mexico needs to do their own dirty work.[/QUOTE]
This is still a matter of our own country"s security. This isn't some backwater country on the other side of the world, this is SOUTH OF OUR BORDER.
These gangs and cartels are responsible for the human trafficking and the drugs that are coming across the border. These organizations are practically holding a government hostage. If the Mexican military/police aren't capable of putting these guys down then we ought to have soldiers down there, not just for our own interests but in Mexico things are genuinely fucked up.
If there's going to be a next major operation for the US, I would rather have it to be in Mexico to help our neighbor than to fly out to the other side of the planet.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49460308]yes. stop buying drugs.[/QUOTE]
people are asking for real solutions.
"Just don't do drugs" has never been a solution because some people will say "Nah, you don't get to tell me drinking is fine, but this other substance is evil"
Prohibition has to end. That's it. Prohibition has to end. We have to approach drugs with a different tactic all together. Creating a prohibition only fueled a powerful black market and we did that for 50 years now. Creating a stigma and a war around drugs simply created a generation of people who did drugs and got thrown under the rug which as always, made the problem worse.
[QUOTE=MR-X;49461056]No. The US needs to stop being the world police and let countries solve their own problems.
Yes some of the laws U.S made help foster this, but Mexico is responsible for their own downfall - their people are the ones accepting bribes, becoming corrupt, etc. They allowed certain groups to roll around and kill other groups then took power for themselves.
U.S goes in and what to they do? Mexico needs to do their own dirty work.[/QUOTE]Mexico is beyond the point of being able to help itself, don't be naive.
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