THE COLD BLOODED BRUTALITY AND CRUELTY OF THE MEXICAN CARTELS KNOWS NO BOUNDS

One thing I like about Borderland Beat is that it doesn’t hesitate to show pictures and videos of the brutal killings, beheadings and dismemberments perpetrated by members of one Mexican cartel against another. The videos are produced by the cartel members themselves and proudly distributed on the internet for all to see.

I just got through watching three videos. The first one was the torture and decapitation of Commander Bebe , a plaza boss for Los Zetas, at the hands of Gulf Cartel members. They first beat him with a two-by-four. Then they burned him several times with some electric charges, probably from a car battery. That caused him to scream in agony. Finally they cut off his head with a knife, proudly holding up the decapitated head in front of the camera. Borderland Beat describes the message left behind by the Gulf Cartel perpetrators: "This is what is going to happen to all the Zetas that are thinking of entering San Luis Potosi, we demonstrate it with work and not with narco banners. Attentive 'El T' C.D.G."

The next video was made by members of Los Aliados of Guadalajara decapitating and dismembering a Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) member. At the beginning of the video there is text warning: “This is what will happen to all that help El Mencho and his extortionists and kidnappers of CJNG.” The video, which runs for 12 minutes, shows an alive naked man hanging upside down from a tripod. First his head is cut off by one man who proudly holds up the head after the deed is done. Then a second man takes a hand saw and begins to dismember one arm, then the other arm, then one leg and finally the other until the torso drops to the floor. All the time this was going on, music was playing in the background and at one time the man holding the head seemed to be dancing a jig to the music.

The third video shows a young woman being decapitated with a knife by a Zeta. According to the Zetas she had betrayed them. The Zeta cutting off the woman’s head proudly holds it up in front of the camera, then a couple of minutes later he places it on her body. In the video one can hear someone screaming out of view of the camera. It is believed those were the screams of a child.

In the past I’ve watched several other videos on Borderland Beat of people being beheaded by cartel members. I remember one in which three men were beheaded, one with a chainsaw, another with a machete and the third with a hatchet. The man with the machete was having a particularly hard time and it seemed like it took him forever to complete the beheading. Then other men went about dismembering the three corpses with some hatchets.

I mention and describe these videos only to call attention to the cold blooded brutality and cruelty of Mexican cartel members. Here in the U.S. we hear and read about all the killings in Mexico but we are never made aware of the horrible nature of these killings. And unless we beef up our border security, we will be seeing these beheadings and dismemberments within our own country.