Having survived two assassination attempts, Mexican mayor beaten to death

Maria Santos Gorrostieta had been stabbed, beaten and burned
She defied Mexico’s powerful drug gangs, who twice tried to gun her down
She was kidnapped in broad daylight in front of her terrified daughter

The former mayor leaves behind three children

The woman mayor who was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her young daughter’s life, it emerged today.

Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination [...]

Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico

Suspected drug gang killers dumped the headless bodies of 49 people on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years.

The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the [...]

37 dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway, local media reports – @Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities found the dismembered bodies of 37 people stuffed into bags and dumped on a highway near the northern industrial city of Monterrey in what appeared to be part of a string of brutal drug gang killings, local media reported.

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Fifteen decapitated in apparent Mexico revenge attack

Police found the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 15 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing between powerful drug gangs.

Police initially counted 12 bodies dumped in the car on a road between Mexico’s second city of Guadalajara and the lakeside city of Chapala, known for its North American expatriate community.

An anonymous call alerted police to the abandoned vehicles, and the bodies were taken to [...]

BREAKING: Obama & Israel to Launch War with Iran!!

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer says that an FBI insider told him the dubious terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador which has been blamed on Iran was likely manufactured by the Obama administration, because no information about the plot even exists within FBI channels.

The plot, an assassination attempt against Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, was pinned [...]

13 killed in clash on Mexico-U.S. border lake

(CNN) — Twelve suspected members of the Zetas drug gang and a member of Mexico’s Navy were killed in a shootout on an island in a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday.

The Mexican Navy said the shootout occurred Sunday on Falcon Lake, located between Texas and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, after troops patrolling the area spotted a camping area on an island.

The suspected drug traffickers used [...]

Mexican Drug Gang Crosses Border

SPREADING TERROR: A woman sees a relative lying dead on the ground after he was killed by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in December. The city was where three Americans were killed earlier in the year, fueling concerns Americans were considered fair game by the drug cartels. (Associated Press)

 

The signature crimes of the most violent drug cartel in Mexico are its beheading and dismemberment [...]

SHOCK: 16 more bodies found in Mexican pits, total now 88

From AP:

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers near the U.S. border led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 bodies, bringing to 88 the number of corpses found in mass pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

The latest batch of bodies was found in four pits in the township of San Fernando, where prosecutors had previously found 72 corpses [...]