29 dead, 700 flee as gang battles hit west Mexico

[Playinghardball]

By GUSTAVO RUIZ, Associated Press

MORELIA, Mexico – A gunbattle between rival drug gangs in western Mexico left 29 bullet-ridden bodies in fake military uniforms heaped across a roadway and inside bullet-riddled vehicles in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, the army said Thursday.

The bodies, all male, were found Wednesday scattered around 14 shot-up pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, two of which had bulletproofing.

Television images of the scene near the town of Ruiz showed what appeared to have been a convoy of cartel vehicles that was ambushed or engaged by another column of gunmen on a stretch of rural highway. Military-style boots, bulletproof vests, hand grenades and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found at the scene.

More at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110526/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico

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It's grtting real nasty in Mexico...

[tridim]

1. Epic War on Drugs FAIL

[Ron Green]

2. The Free Market at work.

[david_vincent]

5. Bingo

Here we use lawyers. Mexicans have found that bullets are a whole lot cheaper.

[spin]

3. Mexico has very strict gun control ...

how could this possibly happen?

edited for typo

[Obamanaut]

4. If guns kill people, pencils misspell words. nt

[Marblehead]

6. it has been nasty for years

28,000 dead in the last 3 years

[Enrique]

7. this level of violence started with Calderon

his drug war has been disastrous beyond anyone's expectations.