Maureen O'Connor — The Houston Chronicle talked to a cartel trafficker this weekend, "in an interview arranged by intermediaries on the condition neither his name nor the location of his Texas visit be published." Anonymous Trafficker has either witnessed the most sadistic crimes imaginable, or is totally fucking with us: The elderly are killed. Young women raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death. In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficker claims fellow gangsters have kidnapped highway bus passengers and forced them into gladiator-like fights to groom fresh assassins. http://gawker.com/5811454/drug-trafficker-hunger-games-is-real-in-mexico
A friend of mine just went on a 7 days cruise to Mexico and his ship wasn't able to stop at one of the destinations(Mazetlan) because authorities ended up finding 7 decapitated heads in a trash cash spilling blood all over the ground. The heads were part of the ongoing problem with the Mexican drug cartel.