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Report: Drug traffickers staging gladiatorlike fights with captives
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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LIONHEART!!
James Earl Jones: No!
Eric Roberts: Coach he's gonna kill 'em!
James Earl Jones:No!
Eric Roberts: Tommy, no!
Jean Claude van Dam: Tung Po! Give me Tung Po!
Quick what three movies did those quotes come from? I gave you the first one!
Lionheart, Best of the Best, Bloodsport.
um....... Looks like Mexico is out of my travel plans... FOR LIFE!!!!
@philip actually native americans ARE from here, that *proof* is merely a form of propaganda. its justification for europeans that took what was not theirs and killed women and children to get it..
Is that chick pregnant?