A popular vacation spot for ... body parts

Don't be an idiot, stay out of Mexico !!!

Mexican authorities report 20 dismembered bodies found in the state of Jalisco, presumed to be the latest victims of the country’s escalating drug war.

At first, reports said there were 12 bodies,then 18, left in two vans on a road in the Lake Chapala region, popular with US retirees and tourists.

Now, on a road in Jalisco, officials have spotted two more bodies and Mexico's attorney general suspects those killings could be connected to the other corpses, Europa Press reports. More

Mexican cartel may be trying to silence bloggers !!!

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel appears to be launching what one expert calls a "frontal offensive" against people who post crime reports on an Internet chat room. It's an apparent bid to control information about Mexico's drug war.

Residents of the border city of Nuevo Laredo say a man's decapitated body was found there, laid atop a banner suggesting he had been killed for posting on the web site "Nuevo Laredo en Vivo."

Experts said Thursday users of the site are probably vulnerable to such attacks, and that the Zetas could be tracking them from clues they leave on the web.

If the killing is confirmed to be internet-related it would be the fourth such slaying in the border city in recent months.

Clinton vows more money to battle drug cartels in Central America !!!

The United States has pledged extra money to Central American efforts to combat drugs gangs.

The funds were announced during a meeting of 12 regional and donor countries in Guatemala in the wake of a rise in violence across the region.

Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports from Mexico City.