[DRB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18014099/

Bloody bodies -- slumped at steering wheels, stacked in pickup trucks, crumpled on sidewalks -- clog nearly every frame of the music video that shook Mexico's criminal underworld.

Posted on YouTube and countless Mexican Web sites last year, the video opens with blaring horns and accordions. Valentín Elizalde, a singer known as the "Golden Rooster," croons over images of an open-mouthed shooting victim. "I'm singing this song to all my enemies," he belts out.

Elizalde's narcocorrido, or drug trafficker's ballad, sparked what is believed to be Mexico's biggest cyberspace drug war. Chat rooms filled with accusations that he was promoting the Sinaloa cartel and mocking its rival, the Gulf cartel. Drug lords flooded the Internet with images of beheadings, execution-style shootings and torture.

"Imagine, if you're a policeman, you can find gold here on these Web sites," said Alejandro Páez Varela, an editor at the Mexican magazine Dia Siete who tracks drug gangs' use of the Internet. "It's a shame. Everything's here: names, places. They even say who they are going to kill."

The videos, almost unheard of a year ago, now show up with disturbing regularity. Last Monday, Mexican newspaper Web sites published portions of a video of a supposed Gulf cartel hit man being questioned by an off-screen interrogator about the February murders of five police officers in Acapulco.

The man wears nothing but underwear. A large "Z" is scrawled in thick ink on his chest, along with the words "Welcome, killers of women and children." The Z is a symbol of the Zetas, the Gulf cartel's notorious hit squad, which was started by former Mexican army special forces officers.

The full version of the video shows assassins decapitating the man by slowing twisting a wire through his neck. It ends with a written threat: "Lazcano, you're next" -- an apparent reference to Heriberto Lazcano, alleged chief of the Zetas.

Wait I thought selling drugs was a victimless crime.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

"The full version of the video shows assassins decapitating the man by slowing twisting a wire through his neck."

That has to be one of the most horrible ways to die...I think I just threw up a little...

 

[N8 v2.0]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18014099/






Wait I thought selling drugs was a victimless crime.

well you thought wrong didnt ya?

 

[N8 v2.0]

"The full version of the video shows assassins decapitating the man by slowing twisting a wire through his neck."

That has to be one of the most horrible ways to die...I think I just threw up a little...

i recall that that's what Cortez had in store for Montezuma

 

[Silver]

Wait I thought selling drugs was a victimless crime.

Who made that claim?

It's a little early to be drinking so heavily...

 

[Westy]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18014099/

Wait I thought selling drugs was a victimless crime.

Only when profited by a major corporation.

 

[bac]

Only when profited by a major corporation.

And if it's "over" paid for with tax money.