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The Age
| 1 year ago
The Attorney-General's Office said in a statement on Thursday that the generals will remain under arrest for at least 40 days while prosecutors strengthen their case. The investigation against retired General Tomas Angeles Dauahare and General...
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The Economist
| 1 year ago
Mexico that gangsters craving attention must go to ever more appalling lengths. The 49 or so mutilated bodies dumped on May 13th on a roadside close to Monterrey, a wealthy city near the Texan border, were enough to make the front pages. The massacre...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Miguel Sierra/EPA Investigators are questioning Mexico 's former deputy defence minister and a top army general for suspected links to organised crime, in the highest level scandal to hit the military in the five-year-old drug war. Mexican soldiers...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
03 More than 50.000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006 [AFP] Mexico's former deputy defense minister and a top army general are being questioned for suspected links to organized crime.
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
The discovery of 49 decapitated bodies on a highway leading to the U.S. border would seem like the time for Mexico's presidential candidates to denounce the drug cartels and say how they will stop them...Not long after the news made headlines the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
03 More than 50.000 people have been killed in rising drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006 [AFP] Mexico's former deputy defense minister and a top army general are being questioned for suspected links to organized crime.
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Two Mexican generals detained over alleged drug links The army has played a key role in Mexico's war on organised crime Two Mexican generals have been detained on suspicion of involvement in organised crime, allegations they deny. Gen Tomas Angeles,...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
In an attempt to save one of its own, the hackivist group, Anonymous threatens one of most notorious Mexican drug cartels, Los Zetas...They want the US to take more responsibility for the violence, which they partially blame on the northern neighbor.
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Daniel Becerril/Reuters A decapitated body was found Tuesday outside Monterrey. Francisco Umberta, alarmed by the latest in a string of unimaginably gory crimes linked to Mexico's drug war , dealt with it by heading out on a date. A half-hour drive...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
The discovery of 49 decapitated and handless corpses on a highway near the city of Monterrey, in Mexico's northern Nuevo Leon state on Sunday, has drawn attention once again to the brutal drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives in that Latin...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Grafitti saying 'Z 100%', referring to the drug gang Los Zetas, is seen near where 49 mutilated bodies were found in Monterrey, northern Mexico. Photograph: Miguel Sierra/EPA Mexico has become a paradise for the nota rosa , or red press, those...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mexico, part of the escalating war of intimidation between drug gangs. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP This weekend's discovery in Mexico of 49 headless, handless and footless bodies dumped alongside a road just outside the northern industrial hub of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Investigators in Mexico believe that the 49 headless bodies found on the side of a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta on Sunday morning may have been the latest victims of a war between rival drug gangs Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Share This...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Mexican police on Monday searched for perpetrators of a drug-war massacre in which 49 people were killed, decapitated, dismembered and left in plastic bags on the side of a highway. The mutilated corpses, whose hands had been cut off to prevent...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Mexican police have found 49 headless bodies in northern Mexico . In what appears to be an offshoot of drug-related violence, the police said the hands of the victims have also been chopped off to prevent identification. Share This Story The bodies...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
A Text Size Christian Palma/The Associated Press Forensic experts examined the area where mutilated bodies were found Sunday along a highway between the Texas border and Monterrey in northern Mexico. Forty-nine mutilated bodies were found Sunday...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Five years after it began, the U.S.-backed drug war rages on in Mexico. Scrawled on a banner left with the 49 victims was a message from the Zetas drug gang asserting responsibility for the killings, said Jorge Domene, a spokesman for the state...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs Welcome to the Independent's new photography blog...David Cameron is going to find himself pushed into a referendum on Europe that could mean Britain le... Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer, has a new TV...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The death toll from Mexico's drug wars jumped Sunday with the discovery of about 50 bodies along a highway between Monterrey and McAllen, Texas. At least six women were among the dead, The Houston Chronicle reported. Many of the bodies were mutilated,...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
Suspected drug gang killers dumped the headless bodies of 49 people on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had...
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Houston Chronicle
| 1 year ago
Police this morning recovered the mutilated corpses of at least 49 people and perhaps dozens more than that from a roadside outside the northern industrial city of Monterrey, the latest massacre in a brutal terror campaign waged by warring Mexican...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
The bodies of 43 men and six women were found in the town of San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa at about 4am (local time), forcing police and troops to close off the highway. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images The mutilated bodies of more than 40 people have been found dumped on a road near Monterrey, with Mexico 's drugs gangs thought to be behind the deaths. The corpses were found in bags early on Sunday on a motorway...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Mexico Forty-nine bodies, at least some of them mutilated, were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border, officials said. A law enforcement official said the bodies of 43 men and...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Mexico (AP) — Forty-nine bodies, at least some of them mutilated, were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border, officials said.
A law enforcement official said the...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
The discovery early Sunday led authorities to close a highway from Monterrey to the border city of Reynosa, snarling traffic. The discovery seems to echo several other recent incidents in which drug gangs left large numbers of bodies in public places...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
55 Authorities have found the dismembered bodies of 37 people stuffed into bags and dumped on a highway near the northern industrial city of Monterrey in what appeared to be part of a string of brutal drug gang killings, local media reported.
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The remains were found in plastic bags along the highway between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police sources. Police and troops were combing the area and had set up checkpoints, Notimex said.
