Police found two severed heads and the bullet-ridden bodies of two women and a disabled man in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez [2] Jan. 9. The body of the man, whose legs had earlier been surgically removed, was mutilated and left with a "narco-message." (AP [3], Jan. 9) On Jan. 8 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa [4], the body of Hugo Hernández, 36, was left on the street in seven pieces with a note addressed to the Juárez Cartel [5] reading: "Happy New Year, because this will be your last." Hernandez's face was skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball. (AP [6], Jan. 8) On Jan. 7, a shoot-out at a military check-point in La Piedad, Michoacán [7], left one soldier and three presumed narco-gunmen dead. (Cambio de Michoacán [8], Jan. 7)
See our last posts on Mexico [9] and the narco wars [10].
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