Monday, June 13

Monterrey: Man hung from a busy overpass and burned

Guadalupe: Butchered man in taxi left at Police Headquarters

Guerrero: 4 gunmen killed in firefight with army

Tabasco: Police confuse famers with gunman, two dead

Chihuahua: Pregnant woman killed by gunman

Acapulco: Man tortured and beheaded

Nayarit: Pregnant woman found badly tortured

Morelia: Executed man discovered

Sunday, June 12

Generan Teran: 3 skinned heads discovered in bags on busy street

Monterrey: beheaded man found in park

Sinaloa: Man tortured and executed in Sinaloa

Canatlan: Father and 2 sons executed

Montemorelos: Armed men open fire in front of Police Station

Excobedo: Violent gun battle, 3 dead

Campesina: 3 men executed at a rehab center

Saturday, June 11

Guerreo: Men killed and skinned, left on highway

Tijuana: Human head discovered

Monterrey: Two men hung from overpass

Monterrey: Man tortured, beheaded

Sinola: Man executed

Nuevo Leon: Butchered man dumped by school

Chihuahua: 3 men gunned down

Guerrero: Warning to Police. Two men skinned. One videotaped before death

Friday, June 10

Sinaloa: Man gunned down in restaurant

Hualahuises: Heads of 3 policeman found

Monterrey: Grenade thrown at State Investigation Agency

Acapulco: Six unmarked graves discovered

Acapulco: Young woman executed

Michoacan: 21 executed

Monterrey: Handcuffed man chased and killed

Vera Cruz: Tortured body of navy man discovered

Thursday, June 9

Guanajuato: Scores of trash bags found with human body parts

Cadereyta: Dismembered woman found

Monterrey: Prison break after grenades are thrown

Monterrey: Police kill two gunman

Chihuahua: Gunman kill three men

Sinaloa: Two young men executed in stolen car

Coahuila: Arsenal discovered

Durango: Police ambushed and executed

Monterrey: Rotting corpse discovered under a bridge

Guerrero: Young Man tortured and burned

Michoacan: 21 bodies found

Santiago: Army attacked by assassins, several dead

Monterrey: Young man executed on busy street

Wednesday, June 8

Monterrey: Woman's Head left at popular restaurant

Victoria: Remains of 30 people found in fuel drums

Chihuahua: Hitmen attack police

Monterrey: Two men hung in broad daylight

Guerrero: Armed group ambush police

Monterrey: Gunbattle in Monterrey

Sinaloa: Armed group attacks and kills three

Guerrero: Two people chased and gunned down

Coahuila: Homemade tank discovered buried in a cave

Tuesday, June 7

Torreon: 11 dead by gunfire.

Guerrero: Body of brutally tortured man found

Tamaulipas: Grenade thrown

Mochicahui: Bullet riddled body of man found

Cadereyta: Bodies of dead men found being eaten by animals

Guadalupe: Two men executed

Monterrey: Beheaded man foudn on street.

Chihuahua: Bodies of two beheaded women discovered

Monterrey: Young man executed in his bedroom

Sinaloa: Policeman and son killed.

Nuevo Leon: Three headless bodies found on the highway

Nuevo Leon: Three heads discovered

Michoacan: Man quartered fond on side of road

Morelos: Running run battle. At least two killed.

Juarez: At least 7 found dead in shallow grave

Monterrey: Officer surrounded and attacked

It's estimated that since 2006 when this drug war ramped up between 30,000 and 40,000 people have died in narco related violence. This is roughly double the total number of estimated deaths (civilian and military) in Afghanistan since 2001.

These headlines were taken from a single blog that covers narco violence. If I were to include accounts from major newspapers and other blogs this list would have been many times longer.

Update: Two days after this was posted between 33-39 people were killed in drug violence in Monterrey. This went largely unreported in American media. To give this context on an average day in New York City which is more than double the size on Monterrey, 1.4 people are murdered.

If you want more background on the drug war in Monterrey, Nik Steinberg's piece The Monster and Monterrey in the Nation is excellent.



posted at 09:06 AM by raul



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