(CNN) -- Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

"This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better (expletive) pay attention. I'm about to get you."

The gruesome scene sent a chilling message at a time when online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.

Bloggers who specialize in sharing news about trafficking have been threatened in the past, but this could be the first time users of such social networks have been targeted.

Investigator Ricardo Mancillas Castillo said he had not encountered a threat against Internet users in his four years based in Nuevo Laredo. But the signs of torture -- the cuts, the disembowelment -- were along the lines of what officials are used to seeing in drug-related violence.

In the case of the two victims on the bridge, their ears and fingers were mutilated, said Mancillas, who works for the public prosecutor's office.

There are no witnesses, and it is a nearly impossible task to identify the perpetrators, he said.

Thirty-six hours had passed since the bodies were found Tuesday morning, but no one had come to claim them and they remained unidentified, Mancillas said.

It will be nearly impossible to determine if the two victims actually posted anything about cartels on the Internet, as people don't usually use their real names online, he said.

The placards threatened those who report violent incidents through social media networks. It listed two blogs by name, Al Rojo Vivo and Blog del Narco.

They were signed "Z," a possible reference for the Zetas cartel, which operates in the area.

Blog del Narco is a website that deals exclusively with news related to drug violence in Mexico. Its creator remains anonymous.

On the Al Rojo Vivo forum, where citizens can make anonymous tips, one person wrote: "Don't be afraid to denounce. It's very difficult for them to find out who denounced. They only want to scare society."

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I'd like to know how they were identified as being those that spoke out against the cartel.

I see people from down there sometimes reading this thread. It's as creepy to me as having someone from the Dept. Of Homeland Security in here...just sayin'.

Suspected drug traffickers drove two trucks to a main avenue in a Mexican Gulf coast city and dumped 35 dead bodies during rush hour while gunmen stood guard and pointed their weapons at frightened motorists.

The gruesome scene in downtown Boca del Rio yesterday was the latest escalation in drug violence in Veracruz state, which sits on an important route for drugs and Central American migrants heading north.

you can see more at Blog del Narco.

that's her head on top that large round thing.



The editor of a Mexican newspaper was found dead, her body decapitated and with a note next to it, officials said.

Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, was the editor in chief of the newspaper, Primera Hora.

I read the story about the above post yesterday morning. The note the killers left with her body scolded her for posting about them & their activities. She had used an assumed name & did her posting from a mobile, no one should have been able to identify her yet they did & I'm really curious how they managed that.

(09-26-2011, 05:56 AM)Duchess Wrote:

I read the story about the above post yesterday morning. The note the killers left with her body scolded her for posting about them & their activities. She had used an assumed name & did her posting from a mobile, no one should have been able to identify her yet they did & I'm really curious how they managed that.

They have friends in high places.

A Mexican vigilante group with links to a drug cartel has vowed to "eliminate" members of the country's leading narco-trafficking gang.

A video posted on YouTube shows five large men identifying themselves as "Los Mata Zetas" (The Zeta Killers), referring to the Zeta cartel that has been responsible for thousands of drug-related killings in recent years.

The video comes days after the gruesome discovery of 35 bound, semi-nude, tortured bodies on a freeway in the Gulf state of Veracruz.

The 'Zeta Killers' spokesman in the video claims responsibility, saying that all of those who died, including 12 women and two minors, were linked to the Zetas cartel. The bodies were dumped on the freeway in the midst of the city's rush hour.

"We are the armed wing of the people, and for the people," says a man with a ski mask, who is seen in the video sitting at a table with four other masked associates and reading from a prepared statement. "We are anonymous warriors, with faces, but proudly Mexican." The speaker said his group was prohibited by its ethical code from carrying out kidnappings or extortion.

Full story w/video

Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexico's interior minister, Jose Francisco Blake Mora, was killed in helicopter crash Friday, the government said.

The Super Puma helicopter crashed in the Xochimilco area south of Mexico City, government spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said.

Also killed in the crash were deputy minister Felipe Zamora and the ministry's press office chief, Jose Alfredo Garcia, she said.

In all nine people perished -- seven passengers and two crew members, she said.

In July 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon appointed Blake Mora to the post that oversees security efforts against drug cartels in Mexico. That battle has has cost thousands of lives.

Prior to becoming interior minister, Blake Mora was an attorney from Baja California state who served as chief of staff to the state government from 2007 until July 2010. Previously, he was a councilman in Tijuana, as well as a state and federal congressman.

I bet it was shot down.

blog del narco translation

At least ten human heads were found Sunday morning in the municipal seat of Teloloapan, North, of which seven were males and three females.

The finding was reported at 05:30 hours by a telephone call indicating that the street San Felipe de Jesus of the colony Mexicapan, at the height of the Municipal Trail Teloloapan were human remains, confirmed the Attorney General's State (PGJE).

"On the sidewalk on the north side of the street, in a row, ten tips brain were found, seven for the male and three female sex," the state prosecution based on a press release.

Besides the human remains were also found "two cards" with narcomensajes that were secured by Army, "which refer to conflicts between rival gangs" in that area of ​​the North.
But according to official reports, the message stated: "THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ALL WHO KEEP SUPPORTING THE" FM "FUCKING SHIT KIDNAPPERS OF LIVING AND NOT THE PEOPLE AND FOLLOW HIS FATHER CAME PUTOS KIDNAPPERS EXTORCIONADORES ATTE. "GUERRERO STATES" and off you shit "F" WHERE YOU HIDE YOU GOING TO FIND IT AND DOG "DRINK 212".

It adds that "by its partial identification", the severed heads are in people between 20 and 35 years old, which is unknown to date its origin and the activities they were engaged.

Until the afternoon of this day had not been located severed bodies corresponding to the ten heads, despite conducting search operations that police authorities of the three levels of government.

Police forces arrived to the place of the three levels of government and the armed forces who cordoned off the area and experts from the PGJE conducted the initial investigation and the lifting of the ten heads.

You make good engrish

(03-19-2012, 02:50 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: You make good engrish

that was blog del narco's translation!

Watch out .....zero will put other peoples heads in replacement to those. Probably mockers.

They say when you are hired as a policeman in Mexico, the first day you have a decision to make...either take cash (from the drug cartels) or take lead and be dead. The police that aren't corrupt get slaughtered almost immediatley.

We are so insulated from this shit down here...sure we have drugs and there are gangs and organised crime. We get the odd boatload of illegal immigrants every week or so.

But holy shit, nobody goes around cutting peoples heads off, murdering cops and shooting shit to pieces every other day. I almost find it incomprehensible. I can't imagine living like that

OMG. I went on the web site and saw the guys heads get taken off with a chainsaw...Holy Shit! The thing that I couldn't understand was they were just chatting away (wished I understood Spanish) and were so calm knowing it was going to happen. Those savage bastards. How anyone could be so cruel to their fellow man. I'd like to take a chainsaw to their balls one at a time!

LC has suggested to me not to watch the beheadings because they'll haunt me. I think she's right about that, I just don't want to see someone's terror.

i'm not seeing any links to video. (??)

If you read the web page in Google translate, it tells You have to cut and paste the bullet pointed list into the search box on the site and it takes you to the video. But you have to search it in Spanish...