Members of the municipal police guard the area where five bodies were found this Tuesday, in Juchitán, Guerrero.Str (EFE)
Mexico lives with death day by day.
It is part of their folklore, their traditions, their art.
Until the narco arrived, the violence and the disappearances.
And now a country that was at peace with its deceased is horrified daily by the spiral of blood that marks every corner of the map.
In the last 24 hours, six bodies have been thrown into a ditch in Zacatecas with traces of torture and five bodies have been found inside an abandoned taxi in Guerrero, three of them decapitated.
Far from being a particularly tragic day, it is just another day in a country with 100 murders a day and more than 90% of cases that never turn around.
They have not even been the main news in the local newspapers of Zacatecas and Guerrero, two states accustomed to counting their dead by the dozen.
Zacatecas, blood on blood
Zacatecas has long been synonymous with massacres on the front pages of the newspapers.
The news of murders, dismemberments and disappearances consume day in and day out, this State of the interior of Mexico in which it seems that violence has settled with the intention of staying.
The six bodies have been dumped this Tuesday in a ditch of federal highway 49, in the municipality of Pinos, bordering San Luis Potosí.
Five men and one woman, according to the State Attorney General's Office.
The neighbors have notified the authorities around nine in the morning.
When the police arrived at the scene of the crime, near the community of San Isidro, they found the bodies spread out between the asphalt and the dry grass on the shoulder.
Hands tied, blood stains on the pavement.
The identity of the victims has not been revealed or whether the authorities are considering suspects.
The Prosecutor's Office has assured that its experts are already on the case.
The bodies will be transferred to the Forensic Medical Service.
Due to the proximity of the place where the corpses have been located to San Luis Potosí, the authorities of both states work together.
"It is not ruled out that the victims or some of them may originate from that place [San Luis Potosí]", the Zacatecas Prosecutor's Office assured in a statement collected by the
Reforma
newspaper .
On March 4, journalist Juan Carlos Muñiz was murdered in Fresnillo, which became the seventh crime against the press in Mexico in 2022. Two weeks earlier, four university students were kidnapped and murdered by drug traffickers in the state capital.
On February 5, the region woke up to 10 corpses scattered in the streets of Fresnillo and another six hanging from a railing in Pánfilo Natera.
The list is endless: murdered policemen, bodies strangled and abandoned in front of the seat of government, crucifixions, victims hanging from bridges.
Death upon death.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced in November 2021 that he would send more soldiers to the State to combat so much violence, but the strategy has not yet borne the expected fruit.
Endless violence in Guerrero
A car advances at seven in the morning on Tuesday on a highway in the municipality of Juchitán, in Guerrero.
On the side of the road he sees a white Nissan with the blue stripes that identify the taxis in the area.
The strange thing is that the hood and part of the front glass is covered with a white sheet on which someone has written something.
On the sheet, there is a red bag.
Inside there is a human head – according to local media.
Inside the vehicle, divided between the seats and the trunk, five bodies.
Three had been decapitated, the other two showed shots, according to authorities quoted by
El Heraldo de México
.
The State Prosecutor's Office has confirmed that these are the remains of five men of unknown identity who have been transferred to the forensic medical service.
They have also launched an investigation.
No more information: a public statement of just two paragraphs for three beheaded and two riddled with bullets.
According to
Reforma
, the sheet could read: "Respect, give respect, understand, the corral already has an owner, it already has an owner, we already have their names and addresses for all those who supported it."
More than a dozen cartels are vying for the plaza in Guerrero, a region particularly hard hit by drug violence.
On March 31, police located six human heads on the roof of a car in Chilapa, a community that is experiencing a war between Los Ardillos, a local cartel, and community police groups.
A week earlier, three other decapitated bodies turned up in Iguala.
Even Acapulco, the state's tourist pearl and one of the country's busiest destinations, has recently suffered an onslaught of violence from which not even the city's tennis Open was spared.
The violence is not exclusive to Zacatecas and Guerrero.
States like Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco or Sinaloa also suffer daily from insecurity and bullets.
This Monday, six people were riddled with bullets at their residence in Tultepec, in the State of Mexico.
Four girls and four adults whose identity is also unknown, whether they were random victims or a targeted killing.
Massacre is a word that has less and less meaning in Mexico.
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