5 Decapitated Men Found In Western Mexico

CULIACAN, Mexico — Mexican authorities have found the decapitated bodies of five men in a western state known for drug-gang violence.

Sinaloa state prosecutors spokesman Martin Gastelum says the bodies and heads were found Tuesday in front of a primary school in the town of Escuinapa.

He says two of the heads were missing their ears and two more had a "Z" carved on their backs in an apparent reference to the Zetas drug gang.

The Zetas have been involved in some of the bloodiest confrontations in a drug war that has cost more than 15,000 lives in Mexico in three years.

Sinaloa is the birthplace of the leaders of several drug cartels. The Zetas are based is the border state of Tamaulipas across from Texas.

Comments

[Ralph Noyes]

09:08 AM on 02/17/2010

Culiacan is dangerous. So is Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, partso of the state of Michoacan, and perhaps Cuernavaca and Acapulco.

If you can find those places on a map, don't go there.

The rest of Mexico is safer than America by far.

[vinny]

05:52 AM on 02/17/2010

i thought Z was the mark of Zorro...

[ykk9]

03:08 PM on 02/17/2010

Hes back and hes mad as hell

[spiffarino]

01:23 AM on 02/17/2010

Remind me never to get a haircut in Sinaloa. The barbers there are terrible.

[pointyheadprodigy]

01:04 AM on 02/17/2010

Do they still do this to folks who brew and sell beer? Hmmmm, I wonder why that changed.

[chaimschwartz]

11:07 PM on 02/16/2010

Trying this for the third time...only on HP can a known Hamas terrorist and murderer be allowed to be called a " foreign national" by a poster! I refer to the assassinated Hamas terrorist! There is no need to moderate this 100% factual post!!

[Usama]

11:40 PM on 02/16/2010

And Israel is a terrorist nation. Its only so long before protection for Israel continues and impunity and exceptionalism are tolerated. The Muslim regimes are all illegitimate and the growing resurgence will wipe them away into history. And then Israels reputation towards its neighbors, towards defenseless poor people will be brought into the light. Even the UAE will not tolerate Israel's extrajudicial assasinations in its emirates. Anyways, this is about Mexico and the on going drug war there. MSM doesn't report these like it reports Muslim terrorists. 100s of civilians decapitated just a few miles from America and barely a blip on the news, but a Muslim talks bad about Israel and its 24/7 reporting. The people are wise to the deception and treachery from the media.

[chaimschwartz]

09:14 AM on 02/17/2010

"Blah! Blah! ...and Israel is a terrorist nation...Blah! Blah!! That's your best stuff???? Go away!

[chaimschwartz]

09:18 AM on 02/17/2010

So once again..protecting your population from Arabs sworn to wipe your nation off the face of the earth makes Israel a terrorist nation?? Maybe YOU would have offered the assassinated Hamas terrorist a warm meal..but, if it was the Israelis..they felt his death kept their homeland safer!! Also..if it was the Israelis..it was sweet revenge for this guy's past terrorist acts against Israeli civilians! I hope it WAS the Mossad!

[iLoveOldNY]

12:00 AM on 02/17/2010

Would you be arguing the same point if Hamas had sent a dozen assa.ssins to put a hit on that right wing d0uchebag Sharon?

Of course not. Because then the shoe would be on the other foot.

[chaimschwartz]

08:59 AM on 02/17/2010

No..Sharon was NOT a murderous terrorist!

[specultr]

11:03 PM on 02/16/2010

I was just in Mexico in August and will be going back next month. I saw the military check points, but Monterrey seemed like any other town to me. I was just reading Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill's report on the N-11, the next 11. This is the same economist who coined the term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and their emergence a decade ago. He and his fellow economists at Goldman Sachs are projecting that Mexico will be the 5th largest economy in the world by 2050. Already, they have a stable currency. Their sovereign debt is investment grade. Income and savings are up. Poverty is down. Some parts have an HDI (Human Development Index) comparable to Europe. I'm not saying the drug violence is not real, but there is another side to the country.

[quoveritas]

02:42 AM on 02/17/2010

Gracias, muy amable.

[planetjeffy]

05:15 AM on 02/17/2010

I go to Mex quite a bit and it has really changed. People drive nice cars, everyone has a cell phone and internet... We need to legalize all drugs and put all the law enforcement and prison money into treatment. Then this violence would go away.

[vinny]

05:51 AM on 02/17/2010

si

[el greco]

10:34 PM on 02/16/2010

Just awful.

[ThermoChemist]

10:23 PM on 02/16/2010

: )

It seems that the time for "The Gathering" is at hand..!

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"When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land, to fight for the Prize."
-- Ramírez describes the Gathering to Connor MacLeod in the movie "Highlander".

[For those not aware, the basis of the film is that there are immortals among us, leading normal lives, struggling to stay alive for the time of "the gathering", in which they will battle to be the last. They can be killed only by decapitation.]

[ykk9]

03:11 PM on 02/17/2010

There can be only one

[iLoveOldNY]

09:33 PM on 02/16/2010

Keeping drugs illegal will only increase violence because it only funds criminals.

[chaimschwartz]

08:23 PM on 02/16/2010

If five Israelis had be be-headed by Hamas..or vice versa...there would be 5.000 posts by now...90% of them against Israel...no matter what really happened!!!

[iLoveOldNY]

09:31 PM on 02/16/2010

Hey! See that Israeli hit squad assassinate a foreign national on foreign soil? Apparently Israel can't be bothered with trials, judges, and juries.

Isn't that what really happened? 2 wrongs make a right?

Right.

[chaimschwartz]

10:25 PM on 02/16/2010

So now a known terrorist murderer is a " foreign national"??? Please..go back home to the planet Uranus!!!

[chaimschwartz]

10:34 PM on 02/16/2010

Wow..you KNOW who did it....but the police investigating the case don't! It's Jack Bauer,James Bond, and Jason Bourne all rolled into ..YOU!

[iLoveOldNY]

09:34 PM on 02/16/2010

Hey! See that Israeli hit squad assa.ssinate a foreign national on foreign soil? Apparently Israel can't be bothered with trials, judges, and juries.

Isn't that what really happened? 2 wrongs make a right?

Right.

[chaimschwartz]

10:26 PM on 02/16/2010

So now a known terrorist murderer is a "foreign national" Only on HP!!

[chaimschwartz]

10:35 PM on 02/16/2010

Wow..this BS gets a double post??? It MUST be HP! It IS!

[chaimschwartz]

08:21 PM on 02/16/2010

If five Fatah members had their heads cut off by Hamas...there would be a thousand posts. Amazing how this huge problem on OUR border gets almost no response!

[SlurmsMcKenzie]

11:23 AM on 02/17/2010

if isrsael stole their lans too....

[riff4u]

07:50 PM on 02/16/2010

As bad as terrorism presents itself in the middle east against Americans the real savage imminent threat to US security is this so-called war on drugs where gangs have the upper hand in the distribution of these substances. Better to put them out of business by legalizing them and then producing them here in the US.

[Usama]

11:46 PM on 02/16/2010

I have to agree. I travelled throughout Mexico several times. I enjoyed Baja California , Tijuana, Cuidad Juarez. Maztalan Oaxaca Mexico city. But that was before this. This is unbelievable. This is outrageous. And America is grossly responsible for this. This is 'war' which should concern America the most, in my opinion. But the billions are wrapped up in empire building on the otherside of the world- America Great Game!

[riff4u]

08:43 AM on 02/17/2010

In Mexico headless corpses are turning up in the hundreds every month. These gangs are firmly planted in the US and growing but because it doesn't involve radical Muslims nobody is interested.