The bodies of 43 men and six women were found in San Juan on the non-toll highway to the border city of Reynosa around 4 a.m. That'll teach them to avoid taking toll roads. The notorious Zetas drug cartel claimed responsibility for the massacre, and decided to have some fun with the police, so they took all the heads, hands and feet from the bodies. Don't feel bad, because they weren't all upstanding citizens - a few of the latest victims had tattoos of the Santa Muerte cult popular among drug traffickers.
For those keeping score at home, this was the umpteenth time it's happened:
• A drug gang allied with the Sinaloa cartel left 35 bodies at a freeway overpass in the city of Veracruz in September, and police found 32 other bodies, apparently killed by the same gang, a few days after that.
• Twenty-six bodies were found in November in Guadalajara, another territory being disputed by the Zetas and the Sinaloa group.
• In April, police found the mutilated bodies of 14 men in a minivan abandoned in downtown Nuevo Laredo, along with a message from an undisclosed drug gang.
• Also in April, the tortured and bound bodies of seven men were dumped in the Pacific port city of Lazaro Cardenas along with messages signed by allies of the Sinaloa drug gang.
• So far this month, 23 bodies were found dumped or hanging in the city of Nuevo Laredo and 18 were found along a highway south of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city.
Officials last year found 193 bodies in mass graves in the town of San Fernando, and with any luck, this year could top that! Oh, Mexico...don't ever change.
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