Dumping of 35 bodies seen as challenge to Zetas

[Zorro]

Source: AP

A gang known to be aligned with Mexico's most-wanted drug lord appears to be making a violent challenge to the dominant Zetas Cartel in the Gulf state of Veracruz, dumping 35 bodies on a busy avenue in front of horrified motorists near where the nation's top prosecutors were about to start a convention.

The cartel known as the New Generation unloaded the bound, seminude, tortured bodies during rush hour Tuesday as part of a several-month campaign to take the strategic port of Veracruz now controlled by the Zetas drug gang, an official in the Mexican armed forces told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

All 35 victims, who included 12 women and two minors, were linked to the Zetas cartel, said the official, who couldn't be quoted by name for security reasons.

It was the first official acknowledgment of who may have carried out the attack after a banner left at the scene threatened the Zetas and bore the initials "G.N."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/dumping-35-bodies-seen-challenge-zetas-205514966.html

---

The news out of Mexico only seems to get worse and worse.

[JackRiddler]

1. A horror. And what a headline. More like "a challenge to civilization itself."

[duhneece]

2. I can't help but believe that our War on Drugs policy contributes to the violence

We need to change the way we treat addiction and drug use.