Let's Take a Moment to Reflect Upon How Horrific Mexico Has Become. Mexico’s two major crime cartels now at war. As the number of total homicides in Mexico has been slowly dropping, the sensational violence spikes higher, creating an atmosphere of instability that makes Mexicans and American visitors fear travel in wide stretches of country that even Mexican military leaders concede are not completely under state control. The two gangs and their surrogates continue to quietly kill each other, but they are also staging public massacres in order to terrify civilians, cow authorities and taunt outgoing President Felipe Calderon, who has made his U.S. -backed confrontation with the cartels a centerpiece of his administration. “What was once viewed as extreme is now normal. So these gangs must find new extremes.
They have left 18 dismembered bodies in vans near Lake Chapala, an area frequented by tourists and U.S. retirees outside Guadalajara. It was signed with names of Zeta leaders. Fighting among Mexican crime gangs is nothing new. ‘Psychopathology at work’ The motivation behind the massacres? Deadspin.
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