Two human heads were placed in front of a bank in Parácuaro, a municipality of Michoacán, México, apparently by the drug cartel that controls a key state in Mexico. According to the Financial Times, a local group that monitors the security situation, Valor por Michoacán, posted on their Twitter account that the victims were found with a sign reading “for all those who switched sides.” An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the message was a warning to potential traitors about what could happen to them.
Police seem to think this was work from the Knights Templar, the feared drug cartel that is running Michoacán. President Enrique Peña Nieto visited the state on Tuesday, a day after the discovery of the severed heads. In Morelia, the state capital of Michoacán, Nieto announced the government would pump $3.4 million to build roads, schools and other institutions in the state. The funds will help “reverse the conditions of institutional weakness.”
The Knights Templar cartel is so strong, that the government offered militia leaders and vigilante groups to join the local police and register their weapons and unite forces against the cartel. But says the Financial Times that the ability of criminal gangs to slip unnoticed and dump the heads in a plastic bag in front of a bank despite heavy police and army presence in the region, only shows how hard it will be to tame the Templars.
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