Thread: 50 dead in seven days in Mexico's drugs war

October 6, 2008

50 dead in seven days in Mexico's drugs warChris Ayres in Los Angeles
Mexico’s descent into bloody lawlessness continued to intensify over the weekend, as another nine bodies were discovered in the border city of Tijuana—taking the body count to nearly 50 in just seven days—and the mayor of a popular tourist town was shot dead by hooded gunmen.

The violence comes amid a civil war between the drug cartels that control much of the country, exacerbated by an almost total collapse in police authority, a tanking economy, and a failed military crackdown by the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, whose power remains unrecognised by many following a disputed election two years ago.
In Tijuana this weekend, police discovered the bodies of five men who had been beaten and asphyxiated; the bodies of two men who had been beheaded (their heads were found in black bin bags nearby); and the bodies of another two men who had been shot dead near the primary school where 12 corpses, many with their tongues cut out, were discovered last week. A piece of cardboard left by the decapitated bodies read: “These are The Bricklayer’s peopleâ€

Its 53 dead.

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