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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2007 
Bloody Weekend in Mafia Turf Wars
 El Universal
The corpse of a man was found wrapped in a plastic bag in the port city of Veracruz on Sunday in what police said was the latest killing in wave of drug-related violence.
Next to the body was a note signed by Nueva Gente, purportedly a drug gang, threatening the Zetas, a gang of enforcers for the Gulf Cartel. "Anybody who supports the Zetas will show up like this idiot," the note said.
Police could not immediately identify the victim or his cause of death, said Rosa Avelina, an agent for Veracruz state police.
The body of the man, who has not yet been identified, was found Sunday morning in a luxury neighborhood with the message directed specifically at a Zeta known as "Z-40" and signed by the Nueva Gente, a spokesman for the state prosecutor´s office said.
The text of the message includes threats and a list of people who presumably were - or are going to be - killed because of their links to the Gulf Cartel, one of the country´s main drug trafficking organizations.
The first appearance of the Nueva Gente group occurred when the bodies of two men wrapped in black garbage bags and sheets were found dumped on streets in Veracruz with messages against the Zetas pinned to their chests.
A few hours after the bodies were found, a videotape was delivered to a television channel showing the two dead men, moments before their execution, confessing to being members of the Gulf Cartel and revealing their alleged connections with police chiefs and journalists in Veracruz.
POLICE CHIEF SHOT
State police chief Ernesto Gutiérrez Moreno was killed in Chilpancingo, the Guerrero state capital, on Saturday night while eating dinner at a restaurant with his wife and son, said the top municipal police official, Artemio Mejía Chávez.
He said that according to initial reports, four men came to the restaurant in a compact car and two of them opened fire with AR-15 assault rifles on Gutiérrez Moreno.
He added that apparently Gutiérrez Moreno managed to escape the massacre of five cops and two secretaries at a police station in Acapulco on Feb. 6, a mass killing carried out by a group of 15 gunmen dressed in military uniforms.
Meanwhile, authorities said they have a description of the man who killed Televisa correspondent Amado Ramírez in downtown Acapulco last week.
Since Thursday, more than a dozen people have been killed in apparent organized-crime-related violence across the nation. |
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