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Subscribe to RSSNormally, I wouldn't publish such a shocking image, but in this case, I think the news warrants it. The violence in Mexico has been rising and is now at a level where such a brazen act occurred in a highly populated area with witnesses. Estimates from various groups put the number of deaths at somewhere between 35,000 and 42,000 since President Calderon launched a campaign against drug cartels in late 2006.
Veracruz, a port city, has been relatively free from the kind of violence that has taken over other areas, especially the U.S. border cities, until now. Continue to scroll to see the image.
Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said. Continue reading...
Veracruz En Red / EPA
The crime scene where two trucks were found with 35 bodies along an avenue in Boca del Rio, Veracruz metropolitan zone, Mexico, on Sept. 20. According to authorities, the victims, 23 men and 12 women, were alleged members of Los Zetas cartel and were killed by their rivals of Gulf cartel.
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Only in asian countries or Mexico..
what a mess
Why do they think these " graphic images " would disturb us? Television programs and movies have made us virtually immune to the most shocking images they could dish out.
I think the only way to stop this violence is to take the profit out of drug trafficking. It is the people who buy the drugs that keep the trade going strong. If as a people, we became healthier both physically and emotionally, we could end drug violence all on our own. No one would want to buy the drugs. Stick your nose up at the drug cartels: don't use drugs and try and help family/friends who are caught up in the evil suctioning away of life that drugs promote.
I think the only way to stop this violence is to stop the expensive failure called 'the war on drugs' If it wasn't illegal there would be no drug czars, no dea, no drug warriors and we'd all be healthier and happier
you don't see drug cartels invading walgreens and demanding all of their aspirin do ya?
While stopping the drug war to reduce violence may sound great on the surface, those wealthy, violent drug cartels will not simply die if their income is attacked. I suspect there would be a major increase in extortion and kidnapping should drugs become decriminalized.
coming loudly to america soon (it's already here low volume)
It's a sad state of affairs when graphic pictures like these evoke disgust and a few raised eyebrows, and that's all. We have become immune to seeing such media pictures and have them affect us as horrifying, running screaming in the distance, foul taste in the back of the throat, and mentally disturbing. Yes...they do have an impact, but the constant media pictorials of dead bodies, decapitated, dismembered, burned, etc., have inured us to the humane reaction we always had. Never the less, we need to come to terms that these drug warlords are just as ruthless as any Taliban and need to be dealt with in the same way. Human nature will never allow consumption to cease, as long as there are people on earth, there will be a market for drugs.
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