"We will not let our guard down," wrote the state's department of security on Twitter. Michoacan authorities said an investigation was under way and included federal, state and municipal forces. State Department considers the state of Michoacan a "do not travel" zone, the highest-level travel advisory, due to crime. Thousands have died in the conflict, with thousands more cartel members detained and convicted. The practice was widespread from 2006 to 2012, during the height of the Mexican War on Drugs. But some gangs, link to the notorious Jalisco cartel, may be returning to more overt displays of murder, meant to intimidate police and rivals. He warned locals to take precautions, but said residents should not alter their daily routines in light of the killings.Ĭartels have for years tried to hide casualties, going as far as to dig secret burial pits or dissolve the bodies in chemicals. "Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory, to control activities related to drug production, distribution and consumption," Lopez said. The killings were likely part of a turf war between the drug cartels, said Lopez at a press briefing Thursday. "Be a patriot, kill a Viagra," read the banner in part. Initials on a banner near the hanged corpses indicated that the Jalisco drug cartel was responsible, and that the killings were a warning to rival gang, the Viagras. The bodies of 23 people have been found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody and. Three more bodies filled with gunshot wounds, lay further down the same road, said Adrian Lopez, the attorney general for the state of Michoacan, where the murders happened.Īs he spoke, ambulance sirens wailed in the distance. Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass on Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Nine bodies were hanging from an overpass by their necks, while seven more were hacked and dumped on the nearby road, under a pedestrian bridge. The killings contrast with years of gangs hiding their hits, recalling instead past drug wars, when criminal groups dumped piles of bodies on the streets as overt warnings to authorities and rival drug gangs. Mexican authorities found a total of 19 bodies scattered across the city of Uruapan in Mexicos Michoacán state on Thursday morning. Nine bodies found hanging off Mexican bridge (AFP) 2 hours ago NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico The bodies of four women and five men were found hanging off a bridge in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo with an apparent message from a drug gang, an army official said Friday. suspended from a highway overpass.: 4 Tortured Bodies Found Hanging from. Mexican authorities found 19 bodies Thursday in western Mexico, apparent casualties of a drug turf war. 7 Dismembered Bodies Found in Northern Mexico, EFE, December 2, 2012.
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