10 bodies found in Mexico, nine of them hanging from a bridge

• The police confirmed the discovery of several bodies hanging from a bridge in Mexico.
• In total, 10 bodies were located, nine of them hanged.
• The shocking scene has rocked the town.

As if it were a horror movie, authorities found 10 bodies in Mexico, nine of them hanging from a bridge. The lurid scene is believed to have been the work of members of bloodthirsty cartels vying for control of the territory.

The AP news agency reported that Mexican authorities found ten bodies on Thursday, nine of them hanging from a vehicular bridge, in a municipality in the state of Zacatecas, a territory in the geographic center of Mexico whose control is disputed by several cartels because it connects the center and western part of the country with the northern border.

Chilling scene: Corpses found hanging from a bridge

According to the state’s Secretary of Public Security in a statement quoted by AP, the event took place on Thursday morning in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, 550 kilometers north of Mexico City, on a federal highway. In addition to the nine hanging bodies, another body was found on the asphalt. They were all men.

The Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel are two of the criminal organizations that dispute control of Zacatecas, a region where violence has grown considerably in 2021 because it is key in the transit of illegal traffic, especially fentanyl, the most lethal and lucrative drug of the moment, explained AP.

One of the bodies hanging on the bridge fell to the ground before the police arrived

According to federal government figures mentioned by AP, in the first nine months of 2021 more than 25,000 murders were registered in Mexico, a figure 3.4% lower than in the same period of the previous year, but which shows that the level of violence has remained almost unchanged since the start of the current administration in 2018.

The Efe news agency also reported the discovery of the bodies hanging from a vehicular bridge, but indicated that not only nine were found in the structure, but 10 in total, since one of them had already fallen to the ground when the police officers arrived.

They investigate «atrocious criminal act» after finding corpses hanging from the road bridge (click on the image to see the video)

«These are male victims, whose bodies were transferred to the Forensic Medical Service for study, in order to determine the cause of death and obtain more data to aid in their prompt identification,» the Zacatecas government reported in a statement cited by Eph.

The State Government’s Peacebuilding and Security Table reported that it organized «an important deployment of the police corporations» in the southern zone of Zacatecas, while the State Prosecutor’s Office carries out the «investigation of the atrocious criminal act,» he said, cited textually by Eph. The Public Ministry «continues the collection of test data, in order to establish a line of investigation that allows clarifying the facts,» the statement added.

Other corpses hanged in the same week

The local newspaper El Universal also indicated that authorities mentioned that because the investigation is in its early stages, there is no further information on the identity or sex of the people who were hanged, but an intense operation is being carried out by the corporations to find those responsible for the appalling crime.

El Universal recalled that last Monday, November 15, the discovery of three bodies that were hanging from a pedestrian bridge on federal highway 23 in the municipality of Fresnillo. There were two bodies that were hanging from a pedestrian bridge, while the third body was lying on the asphalt, but it is presumed that he was also hung, but due to his weight he fell to the ground.

The shooting murder of three policemen

That same day it was confirmed that the director of the Municipal Police of Loreto, Zacatecas, Rafael Hernández López, and two officers under his charge, were found dead in the community of Asientos, Aguascalientes, in Los Angeles..

The officers were wearing their police uniforms at the time of the discovery, and had been shot in the head. The three assassinated security officials went missing in Loreto, after armed groups allegedly took them from their home last week and took two policemen from the Police building in that municipality. The day before, the discovery of three bodies that were hanging from a tree in the San Marcos community in the municipality of Loreto was also reported. In that case there was a blanket with a criminal message on it, derived from the fight between cartels that dispute the territory of Zacatecas, El Universal reported.

The punishment requested by the US for Emma Coronel, wife of El Chapo, is announced

This Thursday it was announced that the US Government, through the Prosecutor’s Office in charge of the case of Emma Coronel, Chapo Guzmán’s wife, who is accused of drug trafficking and complicity in her husband’s escape, issued its recommendation for the judge to condemn the Mexican.

Judge Rudolph Contreras, who will be in charge of deciding Emma Coronel’s conviction, received a request from the US Attorney’s Office to give a four-year prison sentence to Chapo Guzmán’s wife, in addition to another five years of probation, as well as a penalty fee.

The US government asked the judge to sanction Emma Coronel

The fine that Emma Coronel should pay would be one and a half million dollars, for the charges that are filed against her. The final sentence of Chapo Guzmán’s wife will be issued next Tuesday, November 30, and Judge Contreras might or might not heed the request of the Prosecutor’s Office.

It should be remembered that June 10, 2021, was the date on which Chapo Guzmán’s wife pleaded guilty, on the recommendation of her legal defense, on the charges that were attributed to her at the time of her arrest, and she has been held for several months in a prison.

Did things go the way Chapo Guzmán’s wife wanted?

Emma Coronel is accused of conspiring for the illegal sale and distribution of drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin to the United States. She is also accused of other crimes such as money laundering, transactions and complicity with her husband, Chapo Guzman.

Although it has not been stipulated how much the fortune of Chapo Guzmán’s wife amounts to, it is known that part of her arrest, carried out on February 22 of this year, at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, comes from having controlled properties of the famous drug lord and earned quite a bit of income from renting them.

Did pleading guilty guarantee a heavy penalty?

The best ‘strategy’ that Emma Coronel’s defense team implemented was to recommend that she plead guilty to the charges, however, according to reports from ‘Jornada‘ Judge Contreras had indicated that this was not going to guarantee her a minimum penalty for her crimes, at that time rumors talked of 9 to 11 years in prison.

As reported, it seems that the 4 years in prison and the 5 years of supervised probation would be a ‘victory’ for Chapo’s wife, if the request of the Prosecutor’s Office is fulfilled, a sentence that must be determined next Tuesday, November 30.

Is the sentence far below what such crimes imply?

The petition issued to Judge Rudolph Contreras, signed by US prosecutors Anthony Nardozzi, Katherine Wagner and Arthur Wyatt, indicates that said sentence of four years in prison, plus supervised probation and the financial fine are below standards applicable to the crimes for which Emma Coronel is accused.

The memorandum states: “Due to the impact that drug trafficking has on society and the damaging effects of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana on communities, it is important that the court impose a sentence that dissuades others from exceeding the rule of law. However, the court should balance the deterrent against the role of the defendant and the swift acceptance of responsibility of the defendant in this matter”, it can be read. To know more details of the case, check this note.

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