As many know, there has been a drug war going on for years in Mexico. Because of the Cartel, going to Mexico has become more dangerous. I have family in Mexico right now and they live in fear every day. My aunt and her family went to Cancun last summer and they didn't take anything that associated them to being tourists. What those in the drug cartels would do, in order to send drugs undetected was they would kill tourists and stuff the bodies with the drugs.
They link above has many articles that have to do with the cartels. For intense, " A man who died in a shootout in western Michoacan state "has been identified as Nazario Moreno," also known as "El Chayo," a government official said ahead of a press conference set to take place at 7:00pm (0100 GMT Monday).
The previous Mexican government reported that Moreno, a leader of the La Familia cartel, was killed in December 2010. But his body was never located and reported sightings fuelled speculation he was alive.
All signs point to this being 'El Chayo,'" a government official had said earlier on condition of anonymity about the suspect." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/10686935/Mexico-confirms-killing-of-dead-drug-lord.html)
This is a very intriguing post. I was not aware that cartels actually use dead bodies to stash drugs! I knew that they sometimes surgically implanted them into women's breasts, or made people swallow the drugs and take them out once they got to the location. But going as far as killing tourists and stuffing their bodies with drugs is so extreme!
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