Brutality In Mexico

We are taking more and more notice of Mexico lately. And it is a lot more than the immigrant problem. It is the drug trade, violence, human trafficking, you name it. The mass murder of 72 people hoping to illegally get into the USA was an unparalleled cowardly act of violence. There is another war out there.

CS Monitor: Mexico massacre: How the drug war is pushing cartels into human trafficking

...sending some 50,000 federal forces to weaken the power of criminal gangs has made them desperate and forced them increasingly into other businesses, such as extortion, kidnapping, and human trafficking.


The violence is constant in Tamaulipas, the troubled state where the 72 migrants were massacred.


Blindfolded and shot one by one, they included teens and even one pregnant woman. At least one came from as far as Brazil.