Saturday, January 24, 2009

Good Day for the Army

The Mexican army arrested Santiago Meza in Tijuana, a man who has confessed to having murdered 300 people in the last year alone, and then having done away with the bodies in vats of acid. I can't imagine that number is accurate; that would be one murder every weekday of the year. It would also mean that he was involved in one third of the murders in that city this year. He may as well have admitted to having created evil. Nonetheless, much better to have him in jail than outside of it. 

Also, here in the Laguna, the army caught a group of kidnappers that included a municipal police officer from Nuevo León. In the articles summarizing such events, they always include the nickname of the criminals involved. For example, Meza from Tijuana is known as "Theo's Soup-Maker." In the case of the Laguna group, however, at least one of the criminals caught should look at the arrest as a chance to upgrade her moniker. In a blast of unimaginable creativity, Ana Rosa Delgado Guerrero is known as "The Ana."

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