[Susan]

A man was chopped up and left with a note threatening the same would happen to anyone else who stole gasolina. The gangs want full control over the fuel.

[angel_eyes]

Bloody hell, bit drastic innit?

[RiversEdge]

they're stingy over there.

[EMason88]

1 gallon of gas is equal to one body part.

[K53]

Might be a case of overkill?

[Cyclon]

A very stupid reason to dismember someone.

[icehole]

Originally Posted by Cyclon ↗

A very stupid reason to dismember someone.

yeah, it was a cartel so it happens

[prague14]

Green sign original:
Esto les va a pasar a los que anden diciendo que son del CJNG. Aquí en Puebla la mera verga soy yo.
Att. Comandante Aragón

Translation:
This will happen to those who go around saying they're from CJNG. Here in Puebla, the big boss is me.
Sincerely, Comandante Aragón

"La mera verga" doesn't really have a literal translation that makes much sense. Kind of like "the biggest/best dick", so like the best of the best. In terms of hierarchy, it's the boss.

[BigSnail34]

A confluence of historical sociocultural conditions has long made Mexico one of the most inevitably violent areas in the world.

In the pre-Columbian Aztec polis of Tenochtitlan - present-day Mexico City - social status and mobility primarily centered on a handful of warrior cults. All of them except for one (the "Shorn Ones") was egalitarian in that they offered a chance for low-born peasants to ascend through the social strata. And therein lies the foundation of Mexico's violent tendencies, because a warrior gained status and reknown by consuming large quantities of peyote, dressing up in outfits like this, and causing as much suffering as possible with a wooden club.

And then coming into conflict with this warrior culture were the Spanish, who were called Conquistadors because they had just spent generations literally driving the Moors out of Andalusia and into the sea. Not only that, but renaissance southern Europe, from Venice and Florence to El Escorial and Grenada, was extraordinarily violent. The murder rate was over 3 times what Mexico's is today.

And then, in the tumultuous flux of these influences, things got worse. Drought, famine, the fearsome threat of the US, the US making good on that threat, continued incursions and manipulations by European powers - Mexico has just been fucked forever.

[abrastone]

Originally Posted by bigsnail34 ↗

A confluence of historical sociocultural conditions has long made Mexico one of the most inevitably violent areas in the world.

In the pre-Columbian Aztec polis of Tenochtitlan - present-day Mexico City - social status and mobility primarily centered on a handful of warrior cults. All of them except for one (the "Shorn Ones") was egalitarian in that they offered a chance for low-born peasants to ascend through the social strata. And therein lies the foundation of Mexico's violent tendencies, because a warrior gained status and reknown by consuming large quantities of peyote, dressing up in outfits like this, and causing as much suffering as possible with a wooden club.

And then coming into conflict with this warrior culture were the Spanish, who were called Conquistadors because they had just spent generations literally driving the Moors out of Andalusia and into the sea. Not only that, but renaissance southern Europe, from Venice and Florence to El Escorial and Grenada, was extraordinarily violent. The murder rate was over 3 times what Mexico's is today.

And then, in the tumultuous flux of these influences, things got worse. Drought, famine, the fearsome threat of the US, the US making good on that threat, continued incursions and manipulations by European powers - Mexico has just been fucked forever.

The United States has given hundreds of millions to Mexico year after year. You want to blame the U.S. for that disgusting country? Fuck you.