The corpses are falling from the skies in Mexico.
Actually, they were just 35 bodies being dumped out of two trucks onto a busy road in the tourist destination of Boca del Rio along the Gulf of Mexico as reported by Ken Ellingwood for the Los Angeles Times:
Veracruz state has become increasingly violent in the last few years as it has fallen increasingly under the sway of the ultra-violent drug-trafficking gang known as the Zetas.
State officials have frequently been accused of corruption and even collusion with the drug gang, which has branched out into migrant smuggling, kidnapping and extortion.
The Zetas, once the armed wing of the so-called Gulf cartel based along the U.S. border, has been at war for more than a year with its former allies. It was possible that the latest killings were linked to that feud.
More than 40,000 have been killed in Mexico since 2006 as rival drug cartels battle for control over local turf and smuggling routes into the United States.
For whatever it's worth, last week the United States gave Mexico three Black Hawk helicopters "to be used in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime" as reported by Fox News Latino. Perhaps token support from the U.S. in Mexico's battle against the narco insurgents is better than none at all.
However, no word yet from U.S. authorities on when they intend to dismantle the supply lines, distribution networks and operation cells the Mexican drug cartels have established in 230 communities on the north side of the border through which they move $50 billion in bulk product and bundled cash each year.
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