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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2006 
Acapulco Police Find Human Head in Mexican Resort City
 Associated Press
| | A forensic expert bags one of two heads, believed to be of policemen, which were left on the wall of state government offices in the Pacific resort town of Acapulco June 30, 2006. (Reuters/Stringer) |
Acapulco, Mexico – Police on Thursday found a human head inside a plastic bag dumped outside the main entrance of City Hall of this Pacific resort, a day after authorities found a decapitated body.
Attached to the bag was a note that read: “Lazcano, so that you keep sending me more idiots from GAFE,” the Spanish acronym for the Special Forces Unit of the Mexican Army which investigates drug trafficking, said police investigator Guillermo Rios Ramirez. Lazcano is a surname and police were investigating for whom the note was intended.
The note was signed with the letter 'Z,' which authorities said was an attempt to link the killing to “Las Zetas,” a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel.
Authorities were investigating whether the head belonged to a decapitated body found Wednesday with the letter “Z” carved into the chest. The feet and hands were bound and the body appeared to have been dragged by a car down one of the city's main avenues.
The body was found outside the home of city employee Maria Teresa Ascencio Villasenor, a close ally of Mayor Felix Salgado. Ascencio and four of her relatives were injured May 10 when assailants launched a grenade near her home.
Salgado called the action of leaving the head “an act of provocation” aimed at forcing him out of the office he has held for only eight months.
“Obviously there are those who want me to go, because certainly I get in the way,” he told reporters in an interview as he was leaving a meeting with firefighters. “But here I am. Here I'm going to stay.”
The head was the fourth one found this year in Acapulco, where drug gangs have been battling police.
Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in the heart of Acapulco's tourist zone; the man's identity and how he was killed have not yet been determined.
In April, suspected drug hit men in Acapulco decapitated two police officers who had participated in a shootout with traffickers, and left the severed heads at the scene with a note saying: “So that you learn some respect.” |
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