Drug traffickers in Mexico have been abducting bus passengers and forcing them to fight each other like gladiators with the winners being ordered to become assassins, a drug trafficker tells the Houston Chronicle.
The fights, initiated by members of the Zetas cartel, are called "Who's going to be the next hitman?" said the trafficker, who agreed to talk to the Chronicle on condition of anonymity.
The gladiators use machetes, hammers and sticks. "They cut guys to pieces," the paper quotes the trafficker as saying.
The winners are sent by the Zetas on suicide missions to shoot up the territory of rivals, the trafficker told the Chronicle. The losers end up in mass graves.
The trafficker said he was not a witness to the fights but gang emembers told him about them.
Federal law enforcement officials told the Chronicle they did not know of any gladiator fights, but they said the trafficker's story was plausible given the escalating violence in Mexico.
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"I will win the crowd. I will give them something they've never seen before"
you all make me sick
Los locos kick your a.ss
Los locos kick your face
Los locos kick your b.alls INTO OUTER SPACE
Nice Short Circuit reference.
Who's Johnny?
Be carefult, these are the guys who will help get Obama re elected
Be "carefult"? Mikeonthebay – I think you are part of the very group you try to insult buddy.
Drug cartel and gang members are like rabid dogs. We need to put them down. They are the scourge of society and civilization. We need to declare war on them and take them out like the terrorists that they are!
Christina333, I have something I've been meaning to tell you.
It's...
MOKKORI TIME!!!
Obama needs these guys to vote and stiff arm voters to win the next election. Wonder why he will not support stopping illegiala immigration or fortify our southern border. He needs these thugs.
Please, let all of these poor, misguided people into the U.S. so they can vote for Obama.
we dont do anything about this s hit; but we go 3000 miles away for what;please explain
Well, time to send the drones south it seems.
*Sigh* Well, time to send the drones south it seems.
No speaka de englas.
What a cheap circus act CNN is. Gee, I didn't see it happen, and the DEA hasn't seen it happen, but I know a guy who knows a guy who says he heard it's happening. So maybe it's happening. Ya never know. Hey look, ma, I'm a journalist!
I'm out of weed.
Beheadings
Cooking people in acid
Setting people on fire
Doesn't sound like a very relaxing vacation. No wonder flights and hotels are so cheap in Mexghanistan right now.
They should put an army together and wipe out all the gangs. ALL of them...get rid of them all.
What about friendly gangs such as:
The Get Along Gang
Kool & the Gang
Our Gang
Death to all violent, drug-dealing gangs everywhere. I'll now await another comedic response from the peanut gallery.