A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August.
Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.
Montejano’s spokesman, Jonathan Arredondo, said initially that the victims were hacked to death with a machete, but the attorney general said they were killed with stones…
Poor Mexico! I really don’t see how they get out of this – I don’t think the government has the authority or the power to really clamp down. Our problem is that the drug cartels control the border because we have abdicated our authority along the border.
It is going to get very grim, I think, for Mexico over the next couple years.
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