The Price Families Pay in Mexico

Recently I have been going through the routine of reviewing the violence happening all over Mexico. This week there was increased violent activities in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas. There was one of these incidents that caught my attention. It was the execution of a family along with the family pet, a dog.

The news said it was six people killed, three men and three woman. At least one, a female, appeared to be a teenager. They were found in a field on Rumbo Nuevo road. The bodies were piled up on each other and appeared to have been shot with high power weapons. Most had their hands tied. Most had signs of being tortured, beaten with a blunt instrument. Authorities also found four narco-cardboards scattered alongside the bodies with narco messages.

One of the cardboard read the following: "To those who want to continue to support Mario Pelon in making attacks on the citizens, the same will happen to you, we will kill you along with your dog and your neighbor too for being assholes and for promoting violence, you just say, if because of the blame of other assholes, we will kill your entire family."

Mario Ramirez-Tevino aka "Mario Pelon" or "X-20" of the Gulf Cartel and alleged plaza boss of Reynosa is active in Valle Hermoso.

It is not signed but it is presumed a Zeta action. I was not able to find any other information on the content of the other yellow cardboards. In a discussion on e-mail with an unknown person a couple of days ago there was mentioned of a whole family that had been abducted in Tamaulipas because one of the members was informing on a rival cartels.

Could this be the family?

 

Did they all pay the ultimate sacrifice because one member dared to talk about another cartel?

 

Was a neighbor of the family also included in the execution?

 

So many questions just fill my mind.

The daily cycle of endless mayhem soon starts to become so routine; just a couple more bodies without a head left on an empty blood stained road, more bodies left hanging on a bridge in the dark of an early morning to greet the morning commute, multiple bodies burned beyond recognition stuffed in the trunk because there is no room inside, large groups of people wearing red traffic vests presented to the world for display, trucks and buses left burning on busy streets that cover the blue sky with smoke resemblance of a torn war scene but is merely a playground for warring narcos, and finally this act, the senseless brutal death of an entire family whose only crime was being related to a suspected halcon.

With so much violence, executions and brutality that shocks the conscious, this incident of many probably would not even make it on Borderland Beat, but for some reason this one made an impression of hopelessness beyond words.

Source: El Cinco