On election day, Sunday, Chihuahua recorded 10 executions in the capital city of the same name and another 12 in Ciudad Juarez. At least 24 murders were attributed to organized crime through out the state.
Between 3:00 and 4:00 AM in the state capital of Chihuahua 2 men were found hung from an overpass at the Tecnológico and Los Nogales intersection. One of the victims was identified by authorities as José Scott González, assistant warden of the CERESO prison in Chihuahua who had been abducted on Saturday.
Individual victims were also found hung from two other overpasses on the R.Almada expressway at the intersections with ZoologÃa St. and Buena Vista St.
Also on Sunday the execution-style murder of 6 men occurred at the outskirts of the city of Chihuahua. The bodies were observed by passing motorists at 12 noon on the highway to the city of Delicias. All bore signs of torture before being shot.
The 12 murders in Ciudad Juarez were committed in 5 separate shooting incidents. In the Infonavit Mil Cumbres neighborhood a 90 year old passerby was caught in a crossfire and killed in a shooting where 3 other victims were targeted by gunmen.
In another of the shootings in Ciudad Juarez a 15 year old girl was targeted and killed by a group of gunmen.
In the town of Batopilas located in the Copper Canyon area of the Sierra Madre in Chuhuahua the brother of the PAN candidate for mayor was murdered in an armed encounter.
At least 13 other execution style murders attributed to organized crime were committed throughout the country of Mexico on Sunday. Several of the killings occurred in states holding elections.
In Culiacan, Sinaloa, a retired teacher and PRI committee member, Casimiro Meza Benitez, was shot after being thrown out of and run over by a group of gunmen in a pick-up after the polls had closed.
In the state of Hidalgo, the state prosecutor’s office released a statement confirming the executions Sunday morning of the chief and assistant chief of police in the municipality of Actopan.
In the state of Chiapas, a PRD party official was murdered Sunday morning in the town of Tenejapa by gunmen after ending his shift reviewing and accrediting the locations of polling stations .
700 Polling officials did not show up to their stations and only 25 percent of voters went to the polls because of rumors that there would be attacks by armed groups.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/election-day-violence-in-chihuahua.html#commentsI read "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez" last night. It's a view of the city from the people's perspective. Very interesting; and asks a great question- if (as the Mex. govt. claims) all these killings are cartel vs. cartel, or Army vs. cartels-why are all the victims journalists, cops, city officials (and their families) and street people?