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Dog lovers: stay away from the narcos
A disturbing new trend is popping up along Mexico’s narco battlefields: Dogs are being kidnapped and slain, their bodies dumped with threatening messages.
The trend appears strongest in Culiacan, Sinaloa (home to many powerful drug lords including “El Chapo” Guzman). A month ago, dead dogs were left near a military base, a park and the Red Cross offices, bearing threatening notes. “You’re next, Eddi,” reportedly read one note directed at Gen. Rolando Eugenio Hidalgo Eddi. The dogs also were crowned with headdresses made of flowers.
A grisly hallmark of the ongoing drug war in Mexico are so-called “narco-messages” left with bodies of the executed. Drug gangs have also taken to videotaping executions and distributing them on the Internet.
A fourth dead dog turned up last week in Culiacan with an X-rated message. In April, a man was found tortured and executed along with his murdered dog in Michoacan, at the height of the drug war in that rural state.
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