These brazen acts are reminders that things are still out of control in Mexico, and that’s not good for the U.S. either.
By GUSTAVO RUIZ
The Associated Press
MORELIA, Mexico – Twelve people tortured, slain and dumped along a mountain road in a drug-plagued Mexican state were off-duty federal agents, an official said Tuesday. It is one of boldest attacks on federal forces since President Felipe Calderon launched his national war on drugs.
Mexico’s national security spokesman Monte Alejandro Rubido said the 11 men and one woman were investigating crime in President Felipe Calderon’s home state of Michoacan, which has been a center of his crackdown on organized crime.
They were ambushed by members of the La Familia drug cartel, Rubido said. Their bodies were found piled up along a mountain highway late Monday near the town of La Huacana.
