Mexican drug wars are getting more brutal.

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Mexico drug war has claimed 47,500 victims in five years - Telegraph

Police recovered the mutilated bodies before dawn off a toll highway at a shopping mall entrance in the heart of the Santa Fe district that is a haven for international corporations, diplomats and the wealthy.

The heads and a threatening message were dumped a few yards away, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement.
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Nationwide, 47,515 drug-related killings occurred from December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón deployed thousands of troops to drug hot spots, through September 2011, the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.

Beheadings seem to be more common these days.

A friend of mine was down there a few years ago and one night his host suggested they go down to the local cantina for a few cervesas.

As they approached the local village they encountered two stakes on each side of the road with heads impaled on them.

His patron did a u-turn and said; "this is not a good place for us to be sen'or."