The tourist corridor of Riviera Maya, visited by more than one million people a year , has attracted criminal groups involved in a range of illicit activities, including extortion of restaurants and bars, street-level drug sales and human trafficking.
It was was only natural that they would begin to target the hotel construction sector, which has seen major growth in recent years. Remnants of the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas are also present, while foreign groups like the Romanian mafia have found a foothold there as well. Due to its perch on the Caribbean sea, the region also serves as a gateway for cocaine arriving in Mexico via the Atlantic routes from South America. In September , for example, almost three tons of the drug were seized in the port municipality of Mahahual.
Criminal groups now regularly battle over control of territory and illicit activities. In , Quintana Roo state registered homicides. In December of this year, more than disappearances were reported. At least three local politicians were also shot dead, reportedly after receiving threats from crime groups. Though important efforts have been made by authorities in Quintana Roo to combat organized crime, officials often downplay violence aimed at people who are not tourists to maintain an image of safety.
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They solve it quickly," she said. Beneath and around the banner a total of 19 corpses hung from ropes, lay piled on the roadway or were scattered, hacked to pieces. Sofia Huett, the head security official in the central state of Guanajuato, has been on the receiving end of what she calls a propaganda war between Jalisco and the Santa Rosa gang. This always ends badly. Indeed, the reality of life under the Jalisco cartel is terrifying: the cartel has made the city of Guadalajara and surrounding suburbs into a giant clandestine grave site.
Hundreds of bodies have been found in the last year, dumped in drainage canals, buried in fields and the patios and yards of homes. Bodies have been found dissolved in acid or lye, bodies have been found in plastic bags.
So many bodies have been found in Guadalajara that authorities ran out of space at the morgue and took to moving rotting bodies around in refrigerated trucks until neighbors complained about the smell. Experts say the killings skyrocketed after the cartel lost control of its local organization in Guadalajara, and has been battling that splinter group.
Jalisco is accustomed to attacking law enforcement directly. In , cartel gunmen trying to protect their leader shot down a Mexican military helicopter with an RPG. Jalisco likes quasi-military tactics, and their hitmen favor military camouflage.
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