Bad News from the South

A grizzly story is dominating the headlines today in Mexico: eight soldiers (along with five other people) were found decapitated in Guerrero. The message accompanying the bodies said, "For every one of mine you kill, I'm going to kill ten of yours." This would seem to indicate that the soldiers were not killed for their involvement in drug trafficking, but merely for doing their jobs (or for other soldiers having done theirs). As recently as five years ago, it was pretty rare for honest soldiers or police officers or politicians to be killed; it was the ones who worked for the gangs that were executed. That's no longer the case.