GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Mexico City street gangs mimic cartel violence

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal News Radio

04April2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called "The Hand with Eyes." Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb.

For drug lords, this sprawling metropolis of 20 million has been a favorite hide-out and place to launder money, making Mexico City somewhat of an oasis from the brutal cartel violence along the border and in outlying states.

Now a spate of killings and decapitations never before seen have authorities batting down fears that a once-distant drug war is making its way into the capital. Instead, they say, the violence since late last year comes from street gangs fighting for an increasingly lucrative local drug market. (read full report)

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