The corpses of eight mean and two women were found with plastic wrap and packing tape over their faces in a Mazda SUV parked under a Christmas tree beside the Governor's palace in the city of Zacatecas
Because of its central location between Mexico’s two coastlines, its good roads and highways, and its proximity to the Texas border, Zacatecas is an ideal home for organized crime groups shipping precursor chemicals and narcotics across Mexico and into the U.S. Which is precisely why the competing cartels have chosenConditions are so precarious that state police officers have begun to resign in droves due to their fear of “uncontrolled violence,” according to a.
The cartel insider told The Daily Beast that Monreal had indeed inherited a problematic situation, because “the previous administration had arrangements and protected [the cartels]. Then the new administration arrives and doesn’t want to align itself.” He added that the bodies left outside the palace were intended as a message. “So they threaten him by saying: Get in line or you already know what is going to happen to you, and the whole area is going to heat up too.
Not only has Monreal disrespected the old order of business, he’s also actively pursued a crackdown on the cartels by petitioning Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for crime-fighting assistance. In response to Monreal’s request, “the president recently implemented a Plan de Apoyo [Plan of Support] for Zacatecas and has started sending hundreds of National Guard and army troops into the state. This has raised the hackles of the cartels,” said Vigil, who drew a straight line from the Support Plan to last week’s incident.
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