It's not in the news, but the drug wars in Mexico are heating up. Big Time.
The Los Zetas (one of the most brutal of the cartels) was elite military commandos trained by our own military special operations community. The killings they've done in the last year have been horrific.
Read up on them for a few minutes. Is it a wonder why there is so much concern about them spilling over into the United States?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Durango_massacres
2011 Durango massacres
The 2011 Durango massacres were a series of mass murders that occurred in 2011.[1][2]
According to El Universal and Yahoo! News, at least 340
bodies have been found in mass graves around the city of Durango as of February
2012;[3][4]
These mass graves are the first of their kind in the state of Durango and third of their kind in Mexico. These mass graves had more bodies than the 2011 Tamaulipas massacre of 189 bus
passengers.[5] Since April 2011,
there have been 7 mass graves found around Durango. One of these mass graves was
found in a vacant auto repair lot in Durango with 89 bodies.[6]
One of the bodies identified was from Alfonso Peña, the former mayor of the
municipality of Tepehuanes, Durango.[7]
Survivor's story
El
Informador newspaper published a story of an alleged survivor of the
massacres in San Fernando; bellow is the translated story of incidents involving
the kidnappings and the killings done by Los Zetas:
A transportation bus of the company Autobuses de Oriente made its obligatory
stop at San Fernando, Tamaulipas before
reaching its destination in Reynosa.[73] At the
terminal, two people got off the bus, and a couple of others got onboard, making
a total of 15 passengers. The bus then left the terminal at around 8:30p.m. on
25 March 2011 as quickly as possible, fearing that they may be victims of the
cartels that operated in the city.[73]
While the bus was leaving the San Fernando, the bus driver saw at a distance
that there were several trucks blocking the highway up ahead, and that there
were several men wearing ski-masks and holding AR-15s. The gunmen ordered the bus to stop, and the bus
driver obeyed. The cartel members approached the bus pointing their guns and
yelling, "Open the door, asshole! Move, you son of a bitch, unless you want me
to shot you dead."[73] The
chauffeur, trembling, opened the door for the gunmen, who quickly stormed the
bus as soon as the door was opened. "You are all fucked," yelled on of the
gunmen to the people onboard; the passengers were frighten, and some of them
cried, thinking it was simply a regular armed robbery—but that was not the case
this time. The cartel members then ordered the bus driver to drive the bus deep
into a dirt road for about ten kilometers before reaching a plain area, "in the
middle of nowhere." In the area there were about twenty luxurious trucks and
three passenger buses, some of them with bullet holes, flat tires, and broken
windows.[73] The
driver was then ordered to stop the bus, and all the men were then told to
descend from the vehicle. They were asked to form a line, and the cartel members
began to organize them from youngest to oldest and from strongest to weakest.
Those who looked old or weak were separated from the group, tied from their
feet, and then taken elsewhere.[73] Those
who were left were ordered to take off their shirts and remain where they were.
A man wearing black military uniform, a bulletproof vest, and a kit belt was
called from the trucks that were parked nearby. All of the triggerman referred
to him as Commander 40, who is better known as Miguel
Treviño Morales, one of the top leaders of Los Zetas. The man approach the
passengers that were lined up in front of him, and said in a energetic voice:
"Let's see, assholes. Who wants to live?" But no one answered. One teenager
accidentally peed himself out of nervousness, and Commander 40 shot him
dead with a headshot.[73]
Treviño Morales then yelled: "I will ask all of you one more time. Who the fuck
wants to live?" All of the men raised their hands. "Good. We will test your
abilities to see how capable you are. If you make it, you'll survive; if you do
not, you're fucked." Commander 40 then asked his henchmen to bring the
bats and clubs, and each of the passengers was given one. He then said, "Look,
each of you will get in pairs and beat the shit out of each other.[73] Those
who survive will work for Los Zetas, those who don't, well, they're fucked."
All of the passengers were shocked, and could not believe that the orders the
individual in front of them gave sounded more like those of a Nazi than those of a drug lord. Everyone got their bats
and clubs, joined up as a pair, and stared at their partners nervously. Treviño
Morales then said: "Now beat the shit out of each other."[73]
One of the passengers of the bus approached Treviño Morales weeping and
saying: "Please, sir. I do not want to do this. I will give you all the money I
have and my own house, but please let us go."[74]
Treviño Morales stared at him firmly, took away his club and then said, "Okay,
stupid asshole. Leave," and while the crying man was walking away, Treviño
Morales swinged his bat and hit him in the back of the head—and then struck him
more than 20 times until his head was completely destroyed.[74] He
then turned around and said to the kidnapped victims: "This is what you have to
do. Have some balls (courage). Anyone who does not want to can tell me and I
will beat the hell out of you."[74] All
of the men started fighting. Several other Zeta members, who were still on a bus
with other passengers, ordered the women whom they considered the most beautiful
to descend the vehicle so they could rape them.[74]
Then they took away the children from their mothers, and shot the rest of the
bus passengers. The women were taken to a warehouse where many other women were
held captive. Inside a dark room, the women were reportedly raped and beaten,
while the one hear the screams of the women and of the kids being put in
acid.[74] A
driver of one of the buses was then asked to turn on the bus engine, and then
ordered to move the bus to where the kidnapped victims were handcuffed and laid
down on the dirt floor. "Ride on top of them," one of the killers told the bus
driver, who stood there motionless. "Ride on top of them or I will put you there
too, asshole," the killer repeated.[74] The
driver had no other option but to ride over the victims. As he rode over his own
passengers with the bus, he felt like the vehicle was passing over speed bumps,
but the only difference was that the bus driver and the passengers could
actually hear the cries of the people as their being run over. The gunmen, once
the driver was finished, gave him a headshot and them dosed several bullets to
those onboard. Then several Zeta gunmen turned the bus on fire.[74]
Treviño Morales then gathered all the Zetas and said, "We have had enough fun
for tonight. Bring the winners."[74] His
triggerman brought all of those who had passed the gladiator-like competitions,
and were gathered in front of Treviño Morales.
The Commander 40 then said to everyone, "Welcome to Los Zetas special
forces, the 'other' military."[74]
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