Saturday, January 24, 2009

Mexico's Cartel War -- The Human Cost

The body of Alexia Belen Moreno is covered in a white cloth in the backseat of a bullet riddled car in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, June 9, 2008. Moreno, was shot when in the head at age 12, while riding in a vehicle as she was returning from school, apparently caught in the crossfire during a gun battle between drug smugglers. (AP Photo/Diario de Juarez, Antonio Rodriguez)

Mexico Drug Suspect Says He Dissolved 300 Bodies -- Yahoo News/Reuters

OJO DE AGUA, Mexico (Reuters) – A Mexican drug suspect has confessed to dissolving the bodies of 300 rivals with corrosive chemicals near the U.S. border, in a claim highlighting the brutality of Mexico's drug war.

Santiago Meza, known as "The Stew Maker," told journalists he did away with bodies in industrial drums on the outskirts of the violent city of Tijuana.

More than 700 people died in Tijuana last year as rival gangs battled for control of the city's lucrative drug trade. Many others are missing and believed dead after being abducted.

The suspect, who was paraded before journalists by the army on Friday, said he was paid $600 a week by a breakaway faction of the Arellano Felix cartel to dispose of slain rivals with caustic soda, a highly corrosive substance.

"They brought me the bodies and I just got rid of them," Meza said at a construction site where he said he dissolved 300 corpses last year. "I didn't feel anything."

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My Comment: Mexico's cartel war is now completely out of control. They have to be stopped at all cost.

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