A deadly drug cartel left two chilling messages alongside the bodies of two decapitated men.
The headless men were dumped by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – considered to be Mexico's most dangerous drug trafficking organisation – in Istmo de Tehuantepec, a region of the state of Oaxaca.
The first grisly discovery came last Saturday (September 2) when a head and a tortured body were found close to a railway track, according to local news outlet Quadratin Oaxaca.
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Alongside the head (which was discovered an hour before the body) was a 'narcomanta' – a sign left by cartels to explain why a particular person was killed.
According to a translation from the Cuarta Plana news outlet, the sign named two men who "feel protected by the Guardia Nacional, the Policía Estatal, and the investigative police".
Another man was accused of "the smuggling of undocumented people, drug sales" and carrying out murders in Istmo de Tehuantepec.
It stated: "Now all of that is over. Your heads have a price, we are coming for you, go and see how all your halcones [paramilitaries] and sicarios [hitmen] who work for you are dying, we don't kill innocent people."
It was signed by the CJNG.
The second body was found on Sunday (September 3) on a stretch of dirt road close to Oaxaca's Malatenco River, according to NVI Noticias.
Authorities first came across the decapitated body, with its hands and legs bound, near an abandoned car. A search of the area turned up the head some hours later.
Another narcomanta was discovered. A translation from Borderland Beat reads in part: "This happened to me for being a chapulin [meaning grasshopper, referring to a traitor] this will happen to all those who think nothing happens here."
It was also signed by the CJNG.
Authorities are now working to identify both victims.
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