Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated
and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where
Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in
bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.
The bodies of 43 men and six women with their heads, hands and feet
chopped off were dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a
highway that connects the industrial city of Monterrey with Reynosa,
across from McAllen, Texas.
At the spot where authorities discovered the bodies before dawn Sunday, a
white stone arch that normally welcomes visitors to the town was
spray-painted with "100% Zeta" in black letters — an apparent reference
to the fearsome Zetas drug cartel that was founded by deserters from the
Mexican army's special forces.
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