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| 19 bodies hung from bridge or hacked up in Mexico gang feud |
| 2019-08-10 |
| [APNEWS] Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a narco mob banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19. The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by narco mobs at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs. Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked, and one of the dismembered bodies were women, Michoacan Attorney General Adrián López Solís said at a news conference. The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death. Some were hung with their hands bound, some with their pants pulled down. While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco narco mob, and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang. "Be a patriot, kill a Viagra," the banner read in part. "This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don’t just kill, but you brag about killing, is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities," said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope. "This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Hope added. In one particularly brazen attack in May, a convoy of pickups and SUVs openly marked with the letters "CJNG" ‐ the Spanish initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel ‐ drove through the Michoacan city of Zamora at night, shooting up police vehicles and killing or wounding several officers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Thank you, B. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-10 15:38 |
| #5 Dron ~ Your excellent contributions and knowledge are much appreciated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-08-10 15:25 |
| #4 I just saw a documentary recently. Maybe it was based on info from the book. The rise of these 'Autodefensas' was chronicled. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-10 15:00 |
| #3 Well explained. Dron66046. I’m impressed. badanov reported on that for us when the troubles down there were at their height — he even got a book series out of it, The Wounded Eagle, available for sale below Fred’s titles in the right margin. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-10 12:11 |
| #2 Otherwise known as Sierra Santana Cartel by those not wanting to kill them. At one time they were local heroes and fighters against cartels. Then they gave in to their base Mexican nature. Led by Nicolás Sierra Santana "El Gordo", eldest of the Sierra Santana brothers, Los Vi▲gras de Michoacan are currently the deadliest cartel group in Mexico. They began as self-defense groups against cartel violence in 2012-2014, as the Autodefensas Comunitaria under Estanislao Beltrán and by 2015, according to local media, began to support their own cartels such as the Michoacan Family, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (New Genetration Cartel) Sodding faggot millennial name for a cartel, they deserve to die just for that ! They worked with the then commissioner for the Security of Michoacán, Alfredo Cervantes, who asked for their help in locating and capturing Servando Gómez "La Tuta", leader of the Knights Templar. From 2016, The Sierra Santana brothers are involved in the business of methamphetamine production and transfer, which has been pointed out as part of the reason for the current confrontation with the New Generation. The other cartels wish to see them burn, because they want a monopoly as does every other motherf↻cker on earth, and are rallying up even citizens and local cops against them. The Los Vi▲gra have killed thousands of other cartel members over just four years. Basically, it's a good thing. The only thing un-good about this would be if any one of these bastiches was entering the US. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-10 05:34 |
| #1 the V i a g r a s, a rival gang. ??? If that's their real name, it's a rather ambiguous message, ay Papi? Does the gangsters' name signal virulent virility - or the lack thereof? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-08-10 03:01 |