MEXICAN CARTELS REACH THE MAXIMUM SAVAGERY

Last Friday, August 11, 5 young people from the city of Guadalajara attended an event in the town of Lagos de Moreno, in the state of Jalisco.

They disappeared on Friday night. The families of the youths, not having heard from them, urged the local authorities to look for them; and the first statements they made were that there did not appear to have been any violence; that is, that they had left voluntarily with their “captors”.

But soon after, one of the two cars in which they had gone to Lagos de Moreno was found, with traces of blood, which prompted the authorities to change their story and accept the possibility of a kidnapping.

Indignation grew in the state of Jalisco, as once again a group of young people disappeared, under unclear circumstances, as happened earlier this year in Guadalajara when seven other young people working at a “call center” were kidnapped and their bodies were later found.

State authorities reportedly confirmed that the “call center” was part of an operation by a criminal group that used youths as extortionists via phone calls.

During the weekend, a photo of the five young people kidnapped in Lagos de Moreno, tied up and beaten, was released on social networks.
Family members confirmed that they were their children. A video was later released in which one of the five youths was beating his handcuffed colleagues with machetes and beheading one of them.

Earlier this week, the other car in which the young men had gone to Lagos de Moreno was discovered, burned and with the remains of a person inside.

State and local police identified the place where the youths had been tortured and killed and nearby a grave with human remains and four skulls.

So far, it has not been reported whether these are the remains of the youths, but all indications are that they are.

Also last week, a safe house belonging to a criminal group was found in the northern oil town of Veracruz, Poza Rica. Inside it was occupied by refrigerators.

Inside the refrigerators were found human remains packaged as if they were meat, which were later confirmed to belong to at least thirteen murdered people.

The “war” between cartels in Mexico, aimed at dominating as many cities and regions as possible, aimed to expand their criminal activities, is completely out of control and is reaching heinous levels of barbarism and savagery.

The fact that one of the young people kidnapped in Lagos de Moreno was the perpetrator of the murdering and beheading of his friends is part of the way in which young people not connected with organized crime are “recruited” and “conditioned” with such activities.

The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel advertises in local newspapers, offering well-paid jobs in call centers, attracting young people in need of work. Once they reach the call center they are kidnapped (like what happened in Lagos de Moreno); or they are intimidated and persuaded to work for the cartel (like what happened with the youth of Guadalajara).

If they do not want to join the cartel they are tortured and killed. And to make them accomplices of the cartel and “train” them as hit men, they force them to kill their comrades or friends, as seen in the video of the young people kidnapped in Lagos de Moreno.

In addition, cartels have developed the practice of “cannibalism”.
What first developed as a daily practice was to use “prisoners” of other cartels or security forces as “food” for cartel bosses’ pets. They usually had their private “zoos” with lions, tigers, hyenas, leopards and even crocodiles.

What they did and still do is either kill the “prisoners” and give them as “food” to their pets, or even throw them alive for the animals to kill them.

Then, as a way of intimidating rival cartels, they have set out to film the tortures and murders of members of enemy criminal organizations, and then force new recruits to their organization to eat the flesh and hearts of the victims; and they have filmed it.

All indications are that the refrigerators found in Poza Rica with the parts of packaged human flesh also have to do with “cannibalism”, which has spread among the members of the cartels and among the bosses themselves, who consider, as did the ancient Aztecs, that eating the enemy provides a superior force.

All this barbarism goes on and on in Mexico, before authorities who have outright surrendered to the cartels, and who, as President López Obrador has said time and again, prefer “hugs over bullets”. This largely explains the level of decomposition experienced in Mexico, with more than 160,000 murders during the López Obrador administration (2018-2024); and more than 110,000 missing.