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| 24 people found shot execution style in Mexico |
| 2008-09-13 |
| Twenty-four corpses were found bound and shot execution-style in the Mexican city of Atlapulco on Friday, according to Humberto Benitez, secretary-general of government in the State of Mexico. A criminal investigation is now under way to determine if the killings were a result of organized crime, a news release from Mexico's attorney general said Friday. Atlapulco is just south of Mexico City. The killings come roughly two weeks after tens of thousands of Mexicans marched on the nation's capital calling for greater government action to prevent the wave of violent crime sweeping the country. Non-governmental groups estimate there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime. In late August, Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors to develop a plan to battle the nation's alarming rise in violent crime Note to idiot CNN editor: nobody cares if 24 "corpses" are found shot in Mexico, except for the purely weird element. Why would somebody be going around shooting corpses? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 Only 24? They're not looking hard enough... |
| Posted by: imoyaro 2008-09-13 20:40 |
| #6 looks like they're ready for islam. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-09-13 20:11 |
| #5 Peter, do you have any actual expertise wrt Mexico? Because its own officials have admitted they are close to becoming a failed state due to drug-related violence (and don't forget the simmering insurgency in the south highlands). The reason I link from time to time to that Army white paper is that they predicted this as a growing problem in multiple places around the world. The issue is not simply the number of murders, but the degree to which officials have been targetted (judges, honest police leaders), corruption is rampant (drug money plus the threat of violence persuades many to look the other way) and the military suborned. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-13 16:48 |
| #4 "1,500 killings in Mexico this year"... this is not a bad crime problem, to many in the world this would be very good crime levels. - they make out that crime is rampant!! (sure - crime is bad and must be stopped, but in comparison to other places these figures are quite good) - for example, in South Africa their would have been 15 000 so far this year alone. CNN makes out that the place is violent, out of control etc... - far from the reality - please report better next time!! |
| Posted by: peter 2008-09-13 16:35 |
| #3 If you're not screwing around with drugs, running them I mean, you'll be just fine. These arent nuns and tourists, they are drug runners and gangsters that tried to hamstring on their suppliers. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-09-13 14:51 |
| #2 From time to time I link to this study by the Army's strategic studies group which probably better describes what's going on in Mexico IMO: Street Gangs: the New Urban Insurgency. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-13 11:35 |
| #1 Sounds worse than Iraq to me. Is it a "civil war" yet? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-09-13 11:28 |