“This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don’t just kill, but you brag about killing, is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities,” said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope. “Be a patriot, kill a Viagra,” the banner read in part. While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel, and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang. Some were hung with their hands bound, some with their pants pulled down. The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death. MEXICO CITY - Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road. The Zacatecas state public safety agency said in a statement the bodies were found in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, about 340 miles (550. Territorial conflict Rival drug gangs in a so-called. Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked, and one of the dismembered bodies were women, Michoacan Attorney General Adrián López Solís said at a news conference. MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican authorities on Thursday discovered 10 bodies nine of them hanging from an overpass in the central state of Zacatecas, the scene of a battle for territory among drug cartels. Nine of the corpses were hanging from an overpass, while seven were hacked up and dumped at the roadside, with a further three found nearby. The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19. The bodies of six men were found Wednesday hanging from bridges in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, the state’s attorney general’s office said. MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Mexico’s drug cartels have brought back a territorial organized crime tactic of hanging dead bodies to displace dominance in the area.
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