Mexican authorities find 7 dead bodies along road in popular tourist area
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Mexican authorities say they’ve found the bodies of seven males dumped on a road in a area popular with vacationers.
Authorities say the bodies of seven males have been discovered dumped on a roadway late Thursday in the Huasteca area with intensive bruising that counsel they have been overwhelmed.
Writing scrawled in markers on the corpses stated “this is what happened to me for working with the Gulf,” an obvious reference to the Gulf cartel, which operates primarily along the U.S. border to the north.
The messages have been signed “Valles Operation O.B.,” apparently a reference to a rival gang.
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A police officer walks amid ammunition close to the scene of a taking pictures in Mexico City, Mexico
Prosecutors in San Luis Potosi state stated late Thursday the bodies didn’t look like from the township of Aquismon, and will have been killed elsewhere and dumped in the agricultural area
The Huasteca area has lengthy been popular with Mexican vacationers for its waterfalls and crystalline rivers.
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Cartel violence can be being blamed for simultaneous taking pictures assaults at two bars in north-central Mexico in late May that left 11 folks dead.
Handwritten indicators left on the scenes of the killings steered the assaults have been a part of a rivalry between two drug cartels which have been battling for management of Guanajuato state for a number of years.
A broken decide up marked with the initials C.D.N., that in Spanish stand for Cartel of the Northeast
(AP Photo/Gerardo Sanchez)
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Fox News contributor Tom Homan, former Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warned earlier this month that cartel violence will proceed to unfold into the United States because of the Biden administration’s lack of immigration enforcement on the southern border.
“The most treacherous territory is where the convicted criminals and the drug dealers try to move their drugs, because it’s harder to apprehend them,” Homan advised “America Reports.”
Shops in purchasing road in town Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Huasteca area, Mexico.
(Photo by: Marica van der Meer/Arterra/Universal Images Group through Getty Images)
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Homan continued, “You know, only with use of a drone can you see them coming. So, yeah, you’re going to see populations across the entire southwest border. Every sector is going to see an increase because the cartel is going to spread their madness out, right? They’re going to send large groups to a certain area knowing Border Patrol is going to surge resources there. And that’s where they’re going to move the drugs and the convicted criminals, the pedophiles. This again, it’s a worst-case scenario. This administration has sold out our national security.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
