Police find 17 bodies across Mexico

Source: Associated Press

Police find 17 bodies across Mexico

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 21 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY - Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or
dumped on streets in garbage bags across Mexico on
Monday in the latest wave of violence apparently
triggered by warring drug gangs.

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Federal investigators say the Sinaloa cartel is fighting
a bloody turf war with the Gulf Cartel and their army of
enforcers known as the Zetas over billion-dollar drug
trafficking routes to the United States. The battle has
led to beheadings, grenade attacks and execution-style
killings across Mexico and the violence has taken a
particularly heavy toll on police.

President Felipe Calderon, who took power in December,
has launched a nationwide offensive against the gangs,
sending 24,000 federal police and soldiers to areas
ravaged by violence.

But killings have continued unabated. According to a
tally kept by Mexico City daily El Universal there have
been more than 700 drug slayings since January.

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christ, this is horrible and it's no better in new orleans w. kids killing kids for the right to sell drugs on some god-cursed piece of "turf"

How much money would we save it you went to the pharmacy and bought your drugs, You pay your taxes and go home.
Nobody sells to children or they go to jail.

unfortunately there is a complete breakdown of public prosecution for violent crime and drug-related crime in new orleans, as in mexico, and you also have the issue of children also have something to say about it, in some (many!) cases it is children themselves selling and using these drugs, so where do you go from there? i'm out of ideas personally

any of them are ever illegal is to make more money for the BCF, crooked cops, and other politicians.

Look at what you wrote above. This isn't about drugs; it's about drug prohibition.

A human life is a human life.

that the real problem here is human beings and money/power.

I hate to say it, but the Mexican government should have legalized the shit as they were planning to do until they buckled under our pressure

Likewise, the New Orleans turf battle killings.

Some drugs can do bad things to some people, but most "drug-related" killings are better described as "prohibition-related." That's absolutely the case with these Mexican cartel war killings, that's the case with street-corner dealer battles, that's the case with armed rip-offs.

If drug prohibition were ended, we would still have the "drug-related" killings that are biopharmacaological; i.e. guy went crazy on crack and shot somebody, but we would eliminate probably 90% of the killings that we now call "drug-related."

Here, Mexico pays the price for our war on drugs we love to consume.