Dozens of Corpses Dumped in Mexico’s Capital
The mutilated remains of up to a dozen corpses were found strewn across the northern Mexico’s city of Monterrey on Tuesday.
Messages left with the remains suggest the victims were killed as part of a purge within a gang.
Monterrey is the industrial and business capital of Mexico and the seat of many large companies.
The discovery of the dismembered bodies at seven separate sites across Monterrey came after a drop in the level of violence in recent years.
In their attempts to scare their rivals, the cartels would hang bodies from bridges or leave body parts next to signs warning off their enemies.
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Local media said that next to the remains found on Tuesday there were signs referring to attempts to infiltrate a cartel.
The Northeast Cartel, which is based in Tamaulipas, is thought to have emerged from the Zetas crime syndicate.
Its leader, Juan Gerardo Treviño Chávez, was arrested by the Mexican security forces in March 2022 and deported to the United States.
It appears that since then, rival gangs have tried to infiltrate the cartel he led.
As well as drug trafficking, the Northeast Cartel terrorises migrants in its powerbase of Nuevo Laredo and Tamaulipas state.
It kidnaps migrants heading through Mexico to the United States and demands thousands of dollars from their families to release them alive.
