Dozens of people have been decapitated in recent months, most of them apparently members of rival drug gangs locked in turf battles over narcotics routes, betrayals of loyalty. Texas dps tren de aragua gang graffiti on a. Mexico city — a gruesome video circulated wednesday on social media may have recorded the last moments of five kidnapped young men, and has transported mexico.
Evading capture for decades, they organized into the single most powerful drug peddling underworld in the history of the world. Jesus castillo told jurors in an el paso federal court that during his days as a paid killer in the ranks of the barrio azteca gang, he often beheaded and dismembered victims to. This essay provides an overview of those incidents of torture and beheadings linked to the mexican cartels and their mercenary and gang affiliates taking place both within.
This brutal criminal group has conducted kidnappings, extorted businesses, bribed public officials, authorized its members to attack and kill u.s. The state department has declared several mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with department of government efficiency (doge) leader elon musk floating. In tampico, cartel gunmen ambush a state police. Members who were deported spread the gang to el salvador.
Also known as sinaloa cartel, mexican federation and guadalajara cartel,. “cartels use violence and intimidation to control the areas they terrorize,” said dea special agent in charge brian clark. Mexican authorities arrested two alleged high ranking members of the notorious sinaloa cartel this week, just days before the trump administration designated that group and. Since the government first began to use the mexican military against the cartels in 2006, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and tens of thousands more gone.
Following some early beheadings, mexican police arrested former members of guatemala’s élite kaibil military unit, which carried out bloody atrocities against rebel villages.