Mexican cartels fueling violence in Mexico

A severed head of a young man between 25 and 30 years old was found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city Tijuana on Monday. It was hung using a metallic ring and a nylon rope with several bullet wounds.

A threatening message was found nearby on the bridge. Earlier, a woman between 30 and 35 years old was found shot to death in another Tijuana neighborhood,  with a threatening message left nearby her .Authorities have blamed recent cartel style violence in Tijuana on feuding between rivals and loyalists of Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental. Monday farther east were Mexico’s borders the United States, Mexican soldiers  found an unfinished tunnel under a house in the city of Nogales.

The army’s 45th Military Zone command said the tunnel was dug about 5 feet beneath the surface and stretched almost 100 feet, just far enough to reach U.S. territory.The command said in a statement the tunnel ended abruptly and had probably been intended to move drugs across the border. The mouth of the tunnel was found in one of the rooms of the house in Mexico, which appeared deserted. There were no arrests or drugs found at the scene.The state’s interim prison director, Erasto Ortiz Valencia was shot to death yesterday  by unidentified gunmen.State prosecutors’ spokesman Jose Larrinaga said Ortiz Valencia died of three bullet wounds. He had been in office only 10 days when he died, his predecessor was fired after he was linked to the escape of a murder suspect.

The assistant police chief of the city of Empalme,  was also shot to death Monday by a gunmen who fired an assault rifle from an SUV. Police reported Monday that two boys ages 14 and 17 were shot to death on Sunday near the Oaxaca state line. While there was no actual evidence the killings were drug related, Mexican cartels have been recruiting youths as young as 14 years of age. In Guerrero, police in the caresort of Apulco  reported Monday they had found the bound bodies of four young men dumped on a main boulevard. The men were found blindfolded with their hands or feet tied  , They had been killed with knives and guns. More  handwritten messages  were found near the bodies, but Guerrero state police, in keeping with policy, did not release the contents of those messages.