2010-10-12

Why do Mexican gangs behead people?

See also: http://fatboysez.blogspot.com/2011/09/no-history-of-beheadings-in-mexico.html


When these beheadings first started south of the border, I read that it was linked to Mexicans returning from fighting for the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not sure how valid that is but it is a new phenomenon that continues. The latest being the beheading of the Mexican police commander presumed to be investigating the reported pirate attack against David Michael Hartley on Falcon Lake:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7243583.html

and:

Three people found decapitated in Culiacan
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.blogdelnarco.com/&ei=tU5lTML-L8aAlAfT7enWDg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBlog%2Bdel%2BNarco%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-ContextMenu%26rlz%3D1I7TSNA_enUS386US386%26prmd%3Dnl

also:

Tijuana .- Six people were killed in the last few hours in Tijuana and two were beheaded and hung from a bridge, officials said.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.blogdelnarco.com/2010/10/cuelgan-en-puente-de-tijuana-dos.html&ei=4wq1TM3NBYbGlQedqMnDCg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.blogdelnarco.com/2010/10/cuelgan-en-puente-de-tijuana-dos.html%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7TSNA_enUS386US386%26prmd%3Div


All these incidents were reported today. Mexico, no longer the sleepy country south of the border