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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetratorof the massacre of 49 people whose corpses were decapitated,dismembered and dumped on a highway last week. Daniel Elizondo, alias "The Madman," a leader of the Zetas drugcartel, was detained in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, aspokesman for the army said Sunday. Elizondo headed the Zetas trafficking operations in Cadereyta, anindustrial town on the outskirts of Monterrey, close to where thebodies were dumped, the official said. The massacre is one of the worst atrocities committed in Mexico'sdrug war, which has raged since President Felipe Calderon tookpower in 2006 and launched a national offensive against thecartels. Police found the corpses on the highway about 18 miles east ofMonterrey on May 13. As the bodies lacked heads, hands and feet,police said they could only identify them using DNA. A week later,none of the victims has been identified, according toinvestigators. Police said they have found no signs of recent mass disappearancesin the region and the victims could be migrants from Central orSouth America passing through Mexico on the way to the UnitedStates. Drug cartels often kidnap foreign migrants for ransom, killingthose who do not pay. Graffiti sprayed at the scene of the corpses showed the mark of theZetas, who are fighting for control of the region. A video that allegedly shows the men dumping the bodies was alsoposted on the internet. In the film, men can be seen pulling alarge pile of corpses from a truck onto the road during the night.They are then seen leaving a message on a blanket that threatenssecurity forces and the rival Gulf and Sinaloa cartels oftraffickers. "Gulf cartel, Sinaloa cartel, marines and soldiers, nobody can doanything against us or they will lose," said the message, which wassigned by names of Zeta leaders. However, in the following days, messages were put up in severalMexican states claiming the Zetas were not behind the massacre - anunusual measure as the gang openly claims to be behind many masskillings. The Zetas were founded by former soldiers who defected from theMexican military in 1998 to work as hired killers for drugtraffickers. They have since carved out their own smuggling empire,expanded massively across Mexico and diversified into kidnapping,extortion and theft of crude oil. In recent weeks, violence between the Zetas and their rivals hasintensified in several parts of Mexico. Among the worst incidents, 18 people were decapitated near the cityof Guadalajara and nine victims were hanged from a bridge in thecity of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas. In total, around 55,000 people have died in drug related violenceand more than 5,000 have disappeared in Mexico since Calderon tookoffice in December 2006. (Reporting By Ioan Grillo; Editing by Vicki Allen ). I am an expert from mailingbubbleenvelopes.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Cardboard Envelopes , China Courier Envelopes, Bubble Wrap Bags,and more.
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