Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hitmen's bloody reign all about logic, trafficker says

CAMARGO, Mexico (CNN) -- There are no welcome signs on the approach to Camargo.

It's a hardscrabble Mexican border town and home turf for "Los Zetas," a gang of hitmen and corrupt former special forces cops on the bankroll of the Gulf Cartel.

Local journalists explained if we went there we'd be getting "tangled up in the hooves of the horse." They said Zeta gunmen recently smashed one reporter's fingers with a hammer as a warning to the media to stay away.

Read full article here: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/mexico.gangs/index.html#cnnSTCText