Mexico Authorities Discover Six Burned Bodies

MONTERREY, Mexico — Mexican authorities say six bodies found outside the northern city of Monterrey were burned so badly that investigators couldn't determine the cause of death or the victims' gender.

A Nuevo Leon state prosecutors' spokeswoman says the bodies were found on a dirt road north of the city Sunday morning and bore the hallmarks of cartel killings.

The spokeswoman said cartels have been known to burn bodies to prevent identification and to terrorize rivals.

She spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not authorized to be identified by name.

Officials say more than 100 people – including at least 20 police officers – have been killed in Nuevo Leon this month as cartels fight over smuggling routes to the United States.

Comments

[wakeupyouall]

09:19 AM on 02/03/2011

IS this really about drugs or is this revolution. I think the people of Mexico want their fair share. Drug are often the only economy the poor can participate. And we are supporting it with our drug/gun habits.

[Nomadius]

09:09 PM on 02/02/2011

Booze companies, pharmacy corporations, dea and other police troops, private jails to mention a few strong interest radically opposed to the legalization or de-criminalization because ovviously they make a living from the prohibition at the expenses of the big mess we see: deaths, ruined lifes, mobs, gangs and mafias, law enforcement distracted with pot smoker while real crime is rampant.

[dporterdvd]

07:19 PM on 02/02/2011

Libertarians are right about legalizing marijuana. The party of NO is wrong.

[morris111]

08:32 AM on 02/02/2011

This just in - the lighter used to start the fires has been traced back to a strawman cigarette lighter purchase made in the southwestern U.S.

The Deaprtment of Fire Prevention has completed a year long undercover investigation anddetermined that most of the ignition sources used to start fires in Mexico can be traced back to several cigarette/cigar stores in CA, NV, TX, AZ.

The Mexican government has reacted strongly and roundly condemned the lax lighter/match control laws laws in America and it's "smoking" culture and demands something be done to prevent the unchecked flow of lighters and matches being smuggled into Mexico. Mexico has dispatched Ambassador to Washington to implore the President to do something, anything.

Democrats in the House are trying to introduce legislation, but are being rebuffed by the strong pro ignition source Republican lobby. Senator Reed has vowed to bring the issue to the floor ans set the stage for an up or down vote to put those opposed to ignition source regulation on the spot and expose their flawed ideology. Numerous Progressive anti ignition source groups have offered their support and offered their services to get the word out via Twitter and MySpace.

The President has vowed that he would sign into law any bill that seeks to control this unfettered access to ignition sources.

[ehjay]

10:20 AM on 02/02/2011

Morris, get out of the house. You're losing touch with reality.

[morris111]

10:55 PM on 02/02/2011

Rest assured, I am totally in touch. Substitute GUNS for the words lighters and/or matches, and you'll begin to understand how ridiculous the anti-gun hystrionics have gotten in this country.

This is what my tongue in cheek posts was meant to insinuate. Sorry you didn't get it.

[cottonliberalcat]

08:48 AM on 02/03/2011

Like they can't start a fire in Mexico if we make sure theirs no matches or lighters.. Get a Life!!

[morris111]

10:45 PM on 02/03/2011

Read my reply to ehjay. I'm talking about anti-gun hystrionics.

Like they can't kill people in Mexico if we make sure there are no guns...... See the subtle word substitutionl Now you can see what I mean!

[scholasticus]

07:05 AM on 02/02/2011

You potheads are not thinking straight. Drug addiction in the USA does not cause hoodlums in foreign countries to murder each other. Blame for murder is to be placed on the perpetrator, not the pothead. Although potheads play a major role in encouraging illegal drug traffic.

[mavalos]

12:46 PM on 02/02/2011

I think you are the one not thinking straight. Blame for murder is to be placed on America's Drug policy. Prohibition turns 1 penny's worth of plant product into a ten dollar bill.

[cottonliberalcat]

08:52 AM on 02/03/2011

This is why Marijuana should be legal.. You can't overdose, you do not hear of family;s being plowed down while eating a bag of cheetos.. But alcohol kills more people than pot has ever harmed.. You need to worry more about alcohol and the drunks with guns.........

[Last Truth Standing]

12:52 AM on 02/02/2011

This could end tomorrow by simply de-criminalizing drugs in the US alone, though I would advocate the policy world-wide. But since that isn't going to happen,

It is stunning how little discussion there is of such a violent, explosive political/social cauldron in a bordering country, not thousands of miles distant - with all that goes with a direct intervention quite possible at some point.

[MontanaMan]

06:07 PM on 02/01/2011

Supply and demand is in effect here, but possibly we look the wrong way. Whose supply, and whose demand is controlling this... those buying and using drugs or those making a fortune keeping them illegal from the growers to the smugglers to weapons procurement to the incarceration industry. It is truly a huge cottage industry, perhaps one too many folks in power would rather not see eradicated.
You cannot legislate morality...people will do what people will do, they always have. Although legalization and taxation make a lot of sense, perhaps the illegal profits from the entire illegal industry are simply too good to pass by for too many on the take. What other reason can one give for pursuing a failed drug war for so very long.

[cottonliberalcat]

08:54 AM on 02/03/2011

You go, Montana Man.......

[RedArmy]

05:54 PM on 02/01/2011

That is the question of the day, and why did Obama defund the balance of the wall?

[hrpmap]

05:59 PM on 02/01/2011

The wall is 1/2 of the answer, an unguarded wall by itself won't do the job Complete the wall and place troops at intravels, enough to make response time nearly zero.

[Max Shaw]

03:33 PM on 02/01/2011

Seriously...is this REALLY worth not legalizing marijuana?? How many people must die before the government wises up? Last year alone was 30,000 cartel related deaths...

[angrymanspokane]

11:20 AM on 02/01/2011

As oppposed to "Nicely" mutilated bodies? Love the headline writers...

[okami]

08:57 AM on 02/01/2011

possibly the Zetas. . .La Familia would have beheaded them.

[dekadente81]

04:04 PM on 02/01/2011

Most likely Zetas, La Familia is in Michoacan, central Mexico.

[mynameispaul62]

08:53 AM on 02/01/2011

All the people wanting to legalize drugs need to go live in a drug slum for 1 year and then see if your opinion's changed any.

[marquitin]

10:01 AM on 02/01/2011

If drugs were legal these people wouldn't have a mafia... this is one area where libertarians have it right... as much as I dislike drug abuse and what it represents, the alternative isn't exactly working, never has, and never will.

[pfz]

10:43 AM on 02/01/2011

You are right about that it just creates this type of demand.

[mynameispaul62]

11:28 PM on 02/01/2011

I'm not sold on the premise that addiction will decrease if drugs are legalized.

[pfz]

10:44 AM on 02/01/2011

No sarcasm intended but were and what is a drug slum?

[mynameispaul62]

11:28 PM on 02/01/2011

Unfortunately, they're all over the place in the U.S. now.

[Kevin Atlanta]

08:35 AM on 02/01/2011

End the damned failed prohibition.  Decriminalize Pot and stop this insanity of a War on the Citizens of the United States.  While Uncle Ronnie's bride was screaming "Just say NO" from the White House Ronnie and Ollie North were building the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles to feed the greed of their illegal Contra War in Nicaragua.  The Banksters profit most from the illegal drug trade by laundering cash to prop up their failing balance sheets.
Judge Jim Gray says it all and says it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6t1EM4Onao&feature=related

[mavalos]

12:02 PM on 02/01/2011

Excellent link. Thank you.

[NormalAmericanMan]

01:39 PM on 02/01/2011

Hooray for having a brain and not just shouting "MORE Guhns!"

[commonsense333]

08:18 AM on 02/01/2011

Oh American politicians, how much longer do we have to put up with prohibition? Don't you see the hundreds being killed in the name of drugs/money? Have you no mercy for your neighbors? Screw Iraq and Afghan, they are thousands of miles away. Next door we have genocide happening. Legalize, take away their reason to have these supply routes, etc. Legalize now for the sake of those poor people being killed!!

[USNDC]

08:16 AM on 02/01/2011

Cross border black ops raids ... engage with extreme prejudice.

[NormalAmericanMan]

01:40 PM on 02/01/2011

Yes. Kill. Good idea. More... Genius. Run for office in Arizona.