In the hyper violent drug wars ravaging Mexico the macabre mayhem frequently hits new depths of depravity.

Now, the San Antonio Express-News reports that the late chief of the Zetas cartel often ate his enemies.

A reporter who spent time with Heriberto Lazcano — shot to death in 2012 — revealed the coke kingpin’s sinister fetish to El Blog del Narco.

Lemus Baraja said Lazcano, whose nomme du murder was El Lazca, would tell his lieutenants that a captured enemy was doomed.

“After sentencing him to death, he orders him to bathe, and even to shave his whole body and let him de-stress for two or three hours, even better sometimes he gave them a bottle of whisky to relax, then he ordered a very quick death so there is no adrenaline in the meat to prevent it getting bitter or hard,” Baraja told the blog.

The former editor said that El Lazca liked to eat the flesh — from the buttocks — in tamales, cooked in lemon and served on toast.

A former soldier, Lazcano began doing hits for mob bosses when he was just 17 years old. He deserted the army in 1998 and went to work for Osiel Cárdenas Guillén as a hitman, becoming notorious for his twisted torture methods.

This included allegedly feeding his victims to lions and tigers kept on his ranch.

The prolific killer began moving up the ranks and by the time of his death in a shootout with the Mexican navy it was said he had 10,000 triggermen at his disposal from the Rio Grande to deep in Central America.

Lazcano’s bloodlust was seldom sated and it’s believed thousands died on his orders — or by his hand.

And after he was ventilated by the Federales, his men stole his body from the funeral home.