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| Molotov Cocktails Thrown: At Least 8 Killed In Cancun Bar Attack |
| 2010-08-31 |
| At least eight people were killed when Molotov cocktails were thrown into a bar in the Mexican town of Cancun, a resort area popular with U.S. tourists, officials said Tuesday. "The death of eight people is confirmed. Six on site — including four women — and two others in hospital, also women," prosecutor Francisco Alor Quezada, from the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, told AFP. According to witnesses, six unidentified men threw the Molotov cocktails at the establishment which had reported two attempts at extortion, apparently by the Zetas drug cartel. Local media reports said the attack happened at around 1am local time Tuesday. It set off a fire which destroyed the bar, which is in a residential area not frequented by tourists, officials said. I've been told it is nearly impossible for locals to get to the tourist areas. The brutal Zetas, unlike the kinder gentler Gulf Cartel first set up by former paramilitaries Los Zetas are not paramilitary; they are former Mexican and Guatemalen military. That's a big, big difference. in the 1990s, have grown in force since splitting off from the powerful Gulf gang, whom they are now fighting for control of drug trafficking routes. Los Zetas are also fighting the Sinaloa Cartel, and they work for Beltran-Leyva drug cartel. They are suspected in last week's massacre of 72 illegal, under Mexican law migrants in northeast Mexico and many kidnapping, killing and extortion cases. Cancun has seen sporadic attacks and gruesome discoveries of bodies in wells and graves as violence has escalated since President Felipe Calderon deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to take on organized crime gangs in 2006. More than 28,000 have died in drug-related violence nationwide since then, according to official figures. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #7 Zetas are special, because they are prior service military men. Now granted, Mexican military, but still. Imagine if there was a gang of US veterans, duking it out with the Crips, Bloods, and some of the larger prison gangs. Who would you put money on? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-08-31 22:50 |
| #6 Let's finally build that damn fence. |
| Posted by: Slaviling Ghibelline5212 2010-08-31 20:22 |
| #5 Failed state alert. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-08-31 17:38 |
| #4 When Capones' men say "you buy our beer or else"...you buy their beer. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-08-31 16:01 |
| #3 My wife and mother-in-law are there right now. Just e-mailed them the post. |
| Posted by: Gabby 2010-08-31 15:32 |
| #2 Just clearing out the hoi polloi before the big UN IPCC convention... |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-08-31 13:42 |
| #1 Buh-bye Mexican tourist industry. |
| Posted by: Graising Ulinter8671 2010-08-31 12:05 |