OUT OF CONTROL.
Mexico is a state in near anarchy.
Its economy in shambles, law is near non-existent ... it is a lawless state.
Killing of Mexico mayor sends message
MEXICO CITY -- Until he was gunned down over the weekend, Salvador Vergara Cruz was a man of some influence with a promising future in his political party. Mayor of an important resort town outside Mexico City, and a close confidant of his state's governor, Vergara apparently felt sufficiently at ease to travel without a specially assigned team of bodyguards despite receiving death threats from purported drug lords.
The 34-year-old Vergara was killed by hooded assassins armed with semiautomatic rifles as he drove with other officials toward his home city of Ixtapan de la Sal on Saturday afternoon.
The killing of a sitting elected official may turn out to be one of the more significant political slayings in Mexico's raging drug war, not so much because of who he was as for what his death represented.
Prosecutors in the state of Mexico say Vergara was killed because he refused to allow drug gangs to move into and operate freely in his city, along a transit route for drugs into the nation's capital.
Still, by Tuesday, Mexican authorities had arrested 14 suspects, including the mayor's former driver and two men named as the shooters. Some of the suspects, prosecutors say, claimed to be members of La Familia, a gang of drug runners and hit men based in neighboring Michoacan state. This would constitute further and especially forceful evidence of efforts by the gang to move into the state of Mexico, ever closer to the center of national authority.
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