The power of blood: Why Mexican drug cartels make such a show of their brutality
The power of blood: Why Mexican drug cartels make such a show of their brutality
MEXICO CITY — Body parts found inside freezers, bodies hanging from bridges, young men killing each other under cartel orders.
Mexico is no stranger to displays of brutality put on by the nation’s drug cartels.
Bodies hanging from bridges is a near daily occurrence, a display that dates to the early 2000s, when it first astonished the population of a small town in central Mexico.
Other times, the shows of violen