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15-10-2024
MEXICO CITY: The decapitated bodies of five men have been found on a road in central Mexico, in an area controlled by the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Police were called to a road near the town of Ojuelos, in Jalisco state, on Sunday morning, after plastic bags containing the remains were spotted by drivers.
Forensic experts have been trying to identify the victims, officials said.
The brutality of the murders and the disposal of the bodies in a public place are clear indications of drug cartel involvement.
National Guard troops also attended the scene and found the remains wrapped in black plastic bags, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
None of the victims’ ages could be determined yet and an investigation has been launched, it added.
In Jalisco this year, official figures show that 1,415 people were murdered between January and September.
More than 30,000 people are killed every year in Mexico, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates.
Last week, the mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence was murdered less than a week after taking office.
Alejandro Arcos was killed in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, who was sworn in last week, has ruled out a return to the war on drugs of previous administrations.
She said her security plan would focus on gathering intelligence on cartels and addressing the social causes of violence, a strategy referred to as “hugs not bullets” by her predecessor in office, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador but the opposition is calling for tougher action against the gangs.
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 missing.
Meanwhile, the influx of migrants across the southern US border has become a critical factor in the US presidential election but what is little known is the role of drug cartels in making a dangerous journey across Mexico even more perilous.
With its strip clubs, taco stands and buzzing motorbikes, San Luis Rio Colorado is typical of Mexican border communities.
In a migrant shelter, a stone’s throw from the towering, rust-red fence that separates the town from the US state of Arizona, Eduardo rests on a shady patio.
On one wall, there’s a large wooden cross. And it’s here that Eduardo began to process and recover from his terrifying ordeal in Mexico.
Eduardo, who is in his 50s, used to run a fast-food restaurant in Ecuador. But organized crime has tightened its grip in his former, mostly peaceful, South American home.
“As business people we were extorted,” he says. Eduardo was threatened with death if he didn’t pay a ‘tax’ to the gang. “What could we do? To save our lives we had to leave.”
Eduardo never wanted to migrate, but he was frightened and decided to head to the US to ask for asylum.
His story is typical of thousands of people from many parts of the world fleeing violence and seeking a new life in the US.
After a record number of arrivals at the end of 2023, Democratic President Joe Biden proposed stricter immigration measures which include shutting the border when it’s overwhelmed. His opponent Republican Donald Trump says he will introduce mass deportations if elected in November. (Int’l News Desk)
