Severed Heads Of Four Found

Reuters MEXICO CITY — The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. Neighbors in the northern city of Culiacan found the men’s bodies wrapped in plastic sheets and a blanket, with their heads stuffed into white plastic bags. An obscenity-laden note scrawled onto a piece of cardboard invited Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman — the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel — “to see what his stupid acts had caused.” More than 1,600 people have died so far this year in drug violence as gangs battle for control of lucrative trafficking routes and as the government has stepped up anti-smuggling operations by deploying thousands of army... [read full story]