Mexico

For a while now, stories here and there appear in small little columns in newspapers about the drug wars in Mexico. Every so often I hear about dead bodies turning up on highways and dangling off bridges. I knew that the deaths were connected to the drug wars, but never really imagined the full scale of the horror until I went onto liveleak.

What I assumed were not so frequent killings, turns out to be an almost daily event. Just put mexico in the search bar on liveleak, and video upon video comes up of mutilated bodies, hacked up with chainsaws, riddled with bullets, bound hands, people burnt alive etc etc. I've been looking at this site for the past couple of weeks now, and each day, fresh new videos are added. It is frankly aweful. In one video I watched this morning, several bodies had been hacked up, and torso's were being moved around as if they were just a piece of meat on the end of a hook. The end of the same video showed dozens of hacked up bodies piled on top of each other. This is the grim reality.

There is NO value of human life it seems to these drug cartels and people are seen as expendable. I have seen numerous execution videos (well ok, Liveleak are kind enough to cut the video right up to the second before it happens), and it's hard to stomach. There was one video that I have been repeatedly playing over in my head. It's of this really beautiful girl who was murdered after having to give a tearful final speech to the camera, just because her boyfriend was caught selling on a rival gang's turf. It seems that anyone who is connected in some way who does something seen as wrong will be killed.

Just search mexico on live leak and watch the horror of what the mexican people are going through unfold.