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Mexican Cartels Violently Beat and Kill Female Mayor

Gail104 Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 7:02 PM

People were into heavy drug use back in the 1800s. Opium was put into medications. Coca Cola originally began as a med and had cocaine in it. Hence, the name Coca Cola. Cream soda was spiked with opium and many people became cream soda addicts. There were entire towns in Connecticut that had 100% of their populations addicted to opium. Drugs were more prevalent back then than they are now.

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Mexican Cartels Violently Beat and Kill Female Mayor

As our focus continues to be on the violence in the Middle East, it is also important to pay attention to what is going on just south of our own border in Mexico. The war between the Mexican government and drug cartels is still raging with the war's latest victim being female Mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who was beaten, burned, tortured and dumped for dead on the side of the road. Before being killed, Gorrostieta had been attacked twice by cartels for daring to challenge them. The third attack they waged on her, was her last.