Mexico drug fighter killed after less than a day on job

[Project Grudge]

Source: CNN

A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said.

Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed, said Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. He said there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime.

"The general was the most mistreated," Rodriguez said at a Tuesday night news conference monitored by El Universal newspaper. "He had burns on his skin and bones in his hands and wrists were broken."

An autopsy revealed Tello also suffered broken knees and was shot 11 times, Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/04/mexico.general/index.html

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This is terrible and it's already slipping across the border. The U.S. Government needs to do something and something bold.

[Hannah Bell]

1. yeah, maybe they should shut down their drug labs.

every new war brings its associated rise in drug traffic. i'm looking for the heroin spike to follow the meth spike. every economic cycle ends with heroin.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Or maybe just stop buying drugs?

Certainly that does not require invading yet another country.

[silverojo]

3. I wish I could K&R your post for simple brilliance - n/t

[Fumesucker]

5. Alcohol is a drug..

Getting people to stop buying alcohol worked so well in the past. :eyes:

Changing human nature is basically impossible, changing legislation is not.

[ohio2007]

7. Alcohol is outlawed in countries with drug problems

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b6a_1209656657

So you are saying they should legalize alcohol and the heroin addiction will drop.....

or is the drug trade to lucrative to stop if alcohol were legalized ?

[Hannah Bell]

6. you misunderstood. i meant the us gov.

[MrSlayer]

4. Not a nice way to go.

Those motherfuckers are flat out ruthless.

Three cheers for prohibition.

[MadHound]

8. Gee, how about legalizing and regulating the stuff?

Nah, that makes too much sense, and will deprive certain important players of a very lucrative stream of revenue.