Let's start with some MASS GRAVES(?)!!!!
"51 corpses found; drug link suspected
MEXICO CITY — Investigators said yesterday they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico’s bloody drug war. Investigators are still struggling to identify the remains but suspect drug traffickers are involved (AP)."
Toss in a few more bodies:
"Mexican drug lord killed in shoot-out" by Associated Press | July 30, 2010
MEXICO CITY — One of the top three leaders of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel died in a gunfight with soldiers yesterday, ending the long run of a mysterious capo considered a founder of the country’s massive methamphetamine trade.
The death of Ignacio “Nacho’’ Coronel near the city of Guadalajara is the biggest strike yet against the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman since President Felipe Calderón launched a military offensive against drug traffickers in 2006.
According to the FBI, Coronel was believed to be “the forerunner in producing massive amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Mexico, then smuggling it’’ into the United States.--more--"
"Drug lord’s death hits Mexico cartel; Calderon tackles a vast network" by Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press | July 31, 2010
MEXICO CITY — The killing of a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his hide-out has dealt the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderón launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.
Ignacio “Nacho’’ Coronel, a reputed founder of Mexico’s methamphetamine trade, was gunned down late Thursday trying to escape soldiers in the western city of Guadalajara. Mexican authorities say he fired on soldiers as helicopters hovered overhead and troops closed in.
Coronel was a close associate of Mexico’s most wanted man, Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman, and was number three in the organization after Ismael “El Mayo’’ Zambada....
Related: Mexican Drug Gangs Worse Than "Al-CIA-Duh"
Coronel was killed amid persistent allegations that Calderón’s administration appeared to be favoring the Sinaloa cartel, or not hitting it as hard as other drug gangs.
The government's drug gang!!
Those allegations have drawn angry denials from the president and his top law enforcement officials, who point to the 2009 arrest of Vicente “El Vicentillo’’ Zambada — the son of Ismael Zambada — as proof they were going after the gang.
Coronel’s death was also the biggest strike against Mexican cartels since drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva and six of his bodyguards were killed in a Dec. 16 raid by Mexican marines in the central city of Cuernavaca....
In an unrelated development, the United States closed its consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez on Thursday, pending a security review. The unexpected decision was made months after drug gangs killed three people tied to the consulate....
More: Drug War Diversion
A lot of unrelated things to the consulate killings in there, but worth the look.
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Related: Car Bombs Come to Mexico
What, not enough parking spaces?
