Gunmen on Tuesday shot dead seven taxi drivers on the outskirts of the industrial hub of Monterrey, which has become one of Mexico's most violent cities during a turf war between rival drug cartels.
The taxi drivers were killed as they waited at two depots next to their Volkswagen Beetles in Guadalupe, 3.7 miles from Monterrey's center.
Police officers at the scene said they did not immediately know the motive for the attack, which bore the signs of a gangland killing.
Gangsters in Mexico have targeted some taxi drivers over extortion payments, while other taxi drivers have been alleged to work as spies for drug cartels.
Monterrey, which is home to several of Mexico's biggest companies, has seen a surge in murders this year. Nuevo Leon state, which includes Monterrey, registered a total of 516 homicides in the first quarter of this year, a rise of 31 percent compared to the same period in 2011, according to the governor's office.
In total, more than 50,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 and began an offensive against drug cartels.
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What, shot dead in Mexico. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
When the hell are we going to seal the boarder with troops?
A boarder lives in a boarding house. The word you were looking for is spelled border.
Thank god you knew what he meant though right man???
There go my Spring break plans.
Sorry, detective Speak and Spell, next time I will be sure and take the time to utilize the spell checker. After all we should not confuse the liberal mind with a simple mizspeling.
Shell them with prozac and birth control.
Name 5 contributions Mexico has made to the world. Donkey shows don't count.
Tequila and Donkey shows. all Mexico has ever contributed to mankind.Mexico have some pride. quit acting like the armpit of the world.
Spanish fly?
Leroy: You're not any better of a person. What contributions have you given your fellow man or country besides lip service?
I gave my job to an illegal alien. That's a pretty big contribution. Though I guess you could say he stole it.
Leroy: Our politicians pushed our industry to other countries and now the Illegal Immigrants just pick the carcass of what's left. Not a fan of anyone who is here illegally in addition, but I do love and care for Mexico and its people.
@ Leroy, You want some things Mexico has contributed to the world: Alright, here you go:
Chocolate
Vanilla
Avocados
Tequila
Poinsettias
Chewing gum
And that's just the beginning. Mexico is a beautiful country, and the majority of the people are warm, hospitable and would give you the shirt off their backs. Take your ignorance elsewhere, leroy.
So who invented the avacado ? was it the same guy who invented the poinsettia and corn. Did they invent rocks too. BTW didn't the first Thanksgiving have corn? Hmmmm.
So, Tortillas, chili and Tequila. Plus a lot of plants supplied by nature. Oh yeah, and Pancho Villa.
So basically, not friggin much.
So Leroy,
You would say that France didn't contribute to the introduction of wine, since anyone could have made spoiled grapes taste good? They have not contributed to much else and in fact wouldn't exist after WWI, or WWII, if the US hadn't kept Germany out of there.
Many of the food products that came out of Mexico ARE the same type of thing. They are made from something else. Mexico and the American Indian introduced Corn to the rest of the world.
I do have to agree with you about Poncho Villa, since he is a product of the rough Mexican environment, similar to the one that exists now.
Tacos? Love me some tacos. Burritos? I think you could say a whole Mexican restaurant's menu minus the nachos. I think they were invented in a border town in Texas. I agree though. Not much.
Contributions from Mexico:
Contraceptive Pill: invented by Luis Miramontes.
New diagnostic procedures for invasive amebiasis: invented by Dr. Maria Gonzales
Color television system: invented by Guillermo Gonzales Camarena in 1942
Translucent Concrete: invented by Sosa Gutiérrez and Omar Galván Cáceres.
3D television and PC visualization systems: invented by Manuel R. Gutiérrez Novelo.
And Tequila/Mezcal should not be disparaged. You could not make a proper margarita without it.
Mexico gave us:
$10 hookers with silver teeth
Migrating criminals
Women with hairy legs &,
a way to get rid of 50,000 of them by self destruction.
They did have a police force in Tijuana with nothing but sling shots and I'm sure their new navy canoes have nice oars.
Cobra, "Hahahahahahaha. I would kill so many white tasteless trash if they step a foot in my country. All they do is drop bombs and don't fight like real men."
I'd show you how a cobra is treated by a mongoose if you messed with this gringo with or without weapons. You'd get dropped.
Glock, Cobra-- what are you, like 5? Let's settle this like children, shall we? Both of you meet at the swings at reset and you can slap fight till both of you are crying for your mothers. Sound good?
Pathetic.
military man. France was the birthplace of democracy and gave the world the blow job. Mexico just sucks.
That would be Ancient Athens, but whatever...
WMG, is that what you do? Slap til mommy hugs your cryin ass or does daddy nurse you til you stop crying? Me thinks the latter.
I rest my case. Immaturity at its absolute finest. When you learn to talk and act like a man, then maybe people will take you seriously. Until then, enjoy being treated like a child.
I would say we annex Mexico , enact a police state , kill all the drug dealers by hanging. oh that would have been in 1870"s.
COBRA -
I recognize your flash of anger and salute your attempt to have your rash comment deleted.
Have a nice day, and a peaceful one.
@Cobra:
"I would kill so many white tasteless trash if they step a foot in my country. All they do is drop bombs and don't fight like real men."
Guns, bombs, missiles, etc. are usable products of man. Except that they mainly come to be from developed intelligence rather than developed physical strength, or both. In a war, both sides will use the resources available at their disposal. If neither has an advantage over the other, neither will win. But if one civilisation reaches a point in human development where they're able to manufacture tools to help win a war, they'll have a clear advantage over the other.
You wouldn't have much of a chance to "kill so many white tasteless trash if they step a foot in" your country if they use weaponry superior to your hands, that they manufactured with their hands and intelligence.
Yo tambien soy Mexicano, pero como dicen los gringos: "Dos males no hacen un bien".
Leroy2012 - well lets see, Marijuana, and well more Marijuana followed up with even more Marijuana and even more Marijuana than the other Marijuana , now thats some serious Marijuana !
Pretty funny. But a blue eyed musician in China was buried with several pounds of cultivated weed almost 3,000 years ago.
Nothing but low life Degenerate Thugs to do this, its time to let those Low life Drug Cartels have it, hit em' with nerve gas, all of em' then bomb the livin daylights out of their homes with aerial strikes for days on end , then drop a nuke on em' then maybe go in and clean up the mess whats left and shoot & kill whats left of the Trash, and bury the scum in a mass dirt pit & set it on Fire !
I feel for the families that they left behind. My recommendation is not to escalate voilance but we simply can not continue with the bllod shed but enough is enough, here it is ok are you listening ? they kill seven taxi drivers right well when they are caught and they will because people have had enough whether it was 1 or 5 gummen get 7 of each of there family and have them executed in front of them, trust me that will detere them from future voilance real quick and a hurry. ARE YOU LISTENING....
Good morning everyone
NYC could use a little thinning of the Taxi population which just clogs the streets, causes the massive traffic problems.
I see you...,
As you are probably aware of, most of the Cartels in Mexico are already operating in the US. We see products of the drug wars first hand in cities all across America. There was a shootout in San Antonio just a couple of weeks ago that killed a couple of people, along with a police officer. There have been a number of deaths attributed to drug turf wars, that only local media have reported on, but are being tracked as part of continued Cartel activities in the US.
MS13, a gang out of El Salvador, has been taking over distribution in the US for more than 15 years. They are more ruthless than most, if not all, the other hispanic gangs in the US. They have a heavy presence in our prison system, and have recruited other gangs to work for them.
As it is right now, the movement of drugs and weapons into and out of Mexico and further south is a very real and continuing concern for the US. You may want us to stay out of Mexico, but it's already here. It would serve America well to pay attention to this kind of thing since what is happening down there is only a stone's throw from here.
Mil-man, There's a piece of real estate from the border east of Nogales up the Baboquivari Mtns to I-8 including the Tohono Rez that has lots of activity. Know these areas well, used to play there as kids. So much that the Law avoids it like tap-dancing on a landmine. Chapo's Sinos have got American muscle ensuring product gets through and hardware gets south on the return. They've got the best com and eye gear money can buy. Not even our Army has the gear these guys got to play the game. When they get spotted, they leave everything and run. They're under penalty of death (includes their family) not to engage the Law. Give up and don't talk. Engaging the Law will only draw more Law guys in the area which means less routes and product getting to Tucson and up to Phoenix. The days of independent domestic growers have long gone to the control of Narconistas. Lots of clandestine pot fields inside forrest lands to be found all the way up to the former hippie-lands of Humboldt County and beyond. Even the Neo-nasties of Eastern Washington/Idaho wanna play with these guys. Source exclusivity is their game. They've got two decades operating as US citizens thanks to American Narco-dollars going South. It has only become a problem nationally because the Narcos have moved into your areas. You folks are now crying, we along the border ran out of tears thirty years ago. You folks further North didn't care because it was somewhere else. Welcome to the United Narco States of America. You dope users paid for it, now share the problem. Ay dios mio!! Got decades of real working experience on both sides of the line, both sides of the issue and relatives on both sides of the line and Law to put a spine to an opinion. Folks down here along the Arizona-Mexighanistan border wanna shoot the users who buy the $hit.
Mexico is a lawless, corrupt third world country. Unfortunately for the United States, it is the only G-7 nation that borders a third world country. (other G-7 nations border former Soviet block countries)
Sam, It is so because America continues to feed from what Mexico has to offer. Gotta have that product. Narcos are nothing new down here along the Arizona-Mexighanistan line. They've always been allowed to operate as long as Mexico's politicos got a slice of the profiteering pie American dope users pay for. Calderon is seen as just another Cartel. He knows he's losing the battle because he realizes that it is his side that is pillaging his citizens when no Narconistas are to be found in town. He realized the enormity of dough to be made if only he had full control. A first. Calderon, like all his predecessors, short changed his Army and his cops weren't even on the payroll yet were among the richest in town. Anyhow, the Gulfos bought his top Army guys from right under his nose. Another first. We're next door to a corrupt Mexico because as a nation that likes to get stoned from Narconista-supplied product, whether it be foreign or domestically produced and distrubuted, America's need will continue to fuel Mexico's illegitimacy. American users demand it. After all, we're paying for it, no? Si!
Mexico gave us Zorro.... if only he could ride again.
I'd love to get all weepy about this and the fifty thousand so called victims of Mexico's war on cartels, but I'm busy thinking about all the people killed by illegal alien drivers in the U. S. I read everything printed about Mexico for background but it is the effect of this amnasty regime in Washington that scares the sense out of me. I only hope that the Romney administration doesn't forget the promices made to us on immigration reform, I. E. self deportation through enforcement of the tax code, labor law, and immigration law on employers. We can throw him out after four years also.
One thing that Americans need to understand is that the structure of these Hispanic gangs has taken shape in our prison system. The members are allowed to congregate and associate in prison. We need to break these people up to stop the conspiracies that are being formed in our prisons. Any foreign national, in our prisons, needs to be in solitary if they offend in prison. This nonsense of treating them like everybody else is not legally required or in our interest.
The drug war juggernaut of death and destruction continues its insane march forward.
Legalize the drugs, starve out the cartels, and end the useless war. Fewer people will die from tainted drugs, far, far fewer will die from gangland violence, and the government can rake in some hefty tax revenues.
This is what any sane, rational government would do. Of course, this is exactly why it will never get done.
The best way to gather intel is by establishing a presence. Not much can beat a cab for it comes and goes freely into many areas as do utilities (electric, gas, water, phone, cable, trash, fire, ambulance, etc.) in all hours of the day or night. Not much attention is paid... until now. In Mexighanistan, like most, no one knows the area better than postmen then cabbies. None. Need something out of the ordinary, the cabbies know. Sounds like a takeover is in the works. You always outdo your enemy by taking out any intel sources. If you can't buy em, then no one can after you kill them. I remember even postmen were being killed. What worked in Beirut also works anywhere establishing a presence can be done. That's how Bin Ladin was had. Establishing a presence is EVERYTRHING and this is how the game is played and Cabs are a favored source of hard intel, good and bad. Sad to see what is going on South of the line is all because Americans have an unsatiable appetite for what Mexico has to offer. You ought to see the huge lines of American and Canadian pill-junkies scoring their $hit at the Narco-owned pharmacies hours before they open. The only thing missing is the Lawrence Welk music! Legalization isn't everything. Botton line, the Narconistas won't lose a dime as they all know too well that users will always buy from an illegal source because it will be cheaper - just like the countless lines of pill-heads on the other side of the De Concinni Port of Entry in Nogales. Anyhow, the Sinos own the routes down here now. Can't excect to protect the castle from what wants in until you clean out what is already inside. Qwell America's need for product, America can succeed. Got decades of experience on both sides of the line, both sides of the issue and relatives on both sides of the law to put a spine to an opinion.
By God, that'll teach those pesky Taxistas to charge 5 pesos to go across Monterey.
wow. 50 thousand dead in six years. u-s lost over 50 thousand dead in a decade long vietnam war.
what do you do when the criminals seem to be winning?
Wow! Most of these comments could create a comic book. Most americans would like to forget the War of 1812, where as, Mexico's main mission is to bankrupt the U.S. Yes drugs are like a cancer in our society that sucks the life out of a person. But Mexico's main objective is to bring america to its knees. Which begins with illegal aliens entering the country, the women having multiple pregnancies to drain our healthcare system, In which now we are in a political debacle over with our No-do Non-Working , scape-goating Congress. I'm appalled at most of these comments, because we all know where this all stems from, How many U.S. Politicians have their hands in the pockets of these cartel drug dealers. Mexico has been on a serious mission, and the U.S. allowed this situation to take shape, and form. So, this is what we have to offer generations to come, how to be part of a greedy society that feeds like parasites on the most weak and vulnerable. Yes people who are here legally, can exercise the same rights under the Mexico-American treaty. But as we all know they saw fit for a Profit and get rich scheme at the expense of innocent lives, and children who have come to emulate the violence they experience everyday! The U.S. has drug wars on its own turf, that they cannot get a grasp on, let alone curtailing another countries products, its called Supply and demand, They are the suppliers, and the U.S. demands it. Certain countries have natural resources that helps them survive economically, If they used these products for science and research to create legimate drugs to help people with debilitating illnesses, because somewhere in this morass there is a silver lining, everything has a purpose, and most have valuable medicinal properties that can become invaluable to a civilized society. So America before you start to condemn the innocent research the history of the treaties brought before this Administration Historically, then you will have a clearer picture of what is really going on. Remember the Five families in America that now holds most of the American's people moey for a ransom. Re: J.P. Morgan Chase, who headed the Slave trade! Bear and Stearns who money laundered for over a century and a half and still doing it today! Citi group who created monopolies across the banking and housing Industries. Just to name a few there are 13 big companies that have stolen the american people's money eveyone sits back with the look on their faces I Know Nothing. How many of you have watch 911 the untold story, and chronicled by people on the inside of this strategic massascre of american lives. Then I bet half of you will go sit quietly in a chair and do some retrospective thinking of what you have become in this society. Lets not forget the child slavery and prostitution, cheap labor outsourcing of american jobs to foreign countries for more profit child smuggling, and child trafficking to say the least! Thats my message, God Bless all of You!