14 bodies found in a van in northern Mexico

San Luis Potosi a state in northeastern Mexico, entered the day a dismal list of places where criminals drop dead in droves. The early Thursday, Mexican time, 14 bodies were found in a van parked near a gas station on the road connecting the capital to Potosi with Zacatecas. The Attorney (prosecutor) from San Luis Potosi reported that about four in the morning the police received a tip on a Mercedes Benz van, white and enrollment TP-55240 which was abandoned in the 12 kilometer road to Zacatecas . Upon inspection, authorities discovered the bodies. These are 14 males originating in the State of Coahuila, involved for years in a bloody struggle between organized crime cartels. The victims had been kidnapped and murdered there somewhere between Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi. The Attorney General's Office investigates and facts. Last May, on a rural road near Guadalajara, Jalisco, the dismembered bodies of 18 people were found in two vans. Six months earlier, in November 2011, the Jalisco capital was rocked by the news that 26 bodies had been dumped in a central small square known as Millennium Arches. These grim facts were interpreted as revenge for the killing Los Zetas, on 20 September, 35 people whose bodies were stacked in broad daylight on a major avenue in Boca del Rio, Veracruz. These deaths were attributed to groups linked to the Sinaloa cartel. Just last week, the Mexican government reported that the homicide rate seems to begin to decline after growing year after year, to the point that today exceeds 55,000 since the beginning of the war on drugs in December 2006. President Felipe Calderon said on August 2 at a meeting of the National Public Safety "for the first time in several years, the incidence of intentional homicides nationally is showing finally that is already decreased 7% the first half of this year compared to last year's first half in all intentional homicide, and in the case of homicides allegedly attributable to criminal rivalry, low homicide is now close to 15%. " The case of San Luis Potosi, where there was a shooting at noon in the heart of the capital, bearing the same name as the state, occurs in the same week in which Acapulco on the Pacific coast, has recorded 25 murders . Acapulco is one of the most notable outbreaks of violence, among which also Torreon, Coahuila city where there were 86 murders in July, slightly less than the 113 recorded in June.