49 headless corpses left on Mexico highway

Psychos.

Poor old mexico..awful news

Another reason not to waste my vacation money on mexico. Notbeven going to capitalize that country's name.

Absalutely sickening news.

those gangster cartells are getting out of hand!

This is a perfect example of why the USA must build the wall on the Mexican US border and man it with towers and machine guns too. OR have the US allowed to send in military to round up all these gand members because the Mexican government is rife with graft taking officials with no back bone to clean up their country.

that's loco mang

where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes.

As I have said previously, for the people who keep saying legalize marijuana in the USA, do you honestly think that organizations that would do such horrible things to their competitors would after it is legalized change overnight? When was the last time you saw Ford execs ordering the beheading of Chrysler workers for making a rival car? These guys are brutes that need swift justice done to them.

I wonder what the gangs do with the heads, hands and feet...

The creepiest thing is the amount of time required to do such a job....and that's someone's job....

Not 49 but 68....... friends from reynosa told me the reason they don't have their arms, legs and heads was to avoid easy identifications of the bodies, as they were all innocent people and not rival members form another cartel... sad...

In the most optimistic way,they digged fresh graves or took the bodies of deceased joe doe's inthe morgue then cut their heads and hands so that they wont recognised. In the end they can even create the terror w/o bloodshed. Or maybe im just thinking too much and didnt lose my hope on humankind, who knows...

What a horrible way to die!

The solution is to either totally legalize/regulate the industry, or to stomp it out completely. Half measures only make the problem worse. I vote for the latter. Bring a few brigades back from Afghanistan, post them along the border, and let them hunt down the scumbags who are trafficing in narcotics. You'll also find they traffic people, too. Consider it another phase of the war on terror, since importing drugs is a threat to national security and stability.

I appreciate the anguish the Mexican people suffer, but they do bring it on themselves to an extent. Being reflexively anti-Americano won't solve the problem. There is a rot inside the country's social institutions that needs to be addressed.

incredibly, many people north of the rio grande still insist we don't need a wall or even checkpoints between us and them.

@Alphaape

Yes, if pot is legalized in the U.S. the drug cartels in Mexico would wither up and die in no time at all.

Alphaape

where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes.

As I have said previously, for the people who keep saying legalize marijuana in the USA, do you honestly think that organizations that would do such horrible things to their competitors would after it is legalized change overnight? When was the last time you saw Ford execs ordering the beheading of Chrysler workers for making a rival car? These guys are brutes that need swift justice done to them.

you got it right but mexico is corrupt always has been and will never change. For example Japan was nearly destroyed by the USA and the country rebuilt to become one of the most power economies of all time. MEXICO is never going to become that they export their people to get free benefits or they kill them off and leave them on the side of the road to send a message to their corrupt government who is part of the problem. Its a gutter country and always will be a gutter country. **By the way what CHAPTER ARE YOU FROM ALPHAAPE MAN, **I'm ice cold also if you know what I mean

Since 2006, when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels, more than 47,500 people have been killed in drug-related violence. Thats more people killed in the vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. The government don't want to do anything about it for the simple fact it is a money maker for the rich there!

Pozzy: So spot on. It's like having the Taliban right in America's own backyard. Why travel all the way to the middle east?