There have been almost 11,000 narco-related slayings in the past two years. Mexico is in the throes of its bloodiest drug war ever. (See pictures of Ciudad Juárez, the most dangerous city in the Americas.) Officials say he hanged himself, but few in Mexico are buying that. Last month, Jesús Zambada, the nephew of a top drug-cartel boss, Ismael (El Mayo) Zambada, was found dead in the federal safe house where he was being guarded. 2, Edgar Bayardo a former high-ranking federal police official whose information led to last year's indictment of Mexico's federal police chief and other top cops for alleged narco-corruption was fatally riddled with bullets by two hit men dressed in suits as he sipped coffee in a Starbucks. ![]() In less than two weeks, in fact, two of the country's most valuable soplones, or stool pigeons, have been killed in Mexico City. A mobster may not be able to find decent marinara sauce where the feds have him hiding, but in return for his testimony, he can count on not getting whacked.īut then there's witness protection in Mexico which may as well be called witness detection, since it seems the country's violent drug traffickers are having little problem locating, and assassinating, the informants whom the government is supposed to be shielding. Follow to movies like Goodfellas, Americans appreciate how witness-protection programs are supposed to work.
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