Mexican Bloggers’ Bodies Disemboweled, Hung from Bridge

"This will happen to all the Internet snitches," a banner above the hanging bodies of a young man and woman read. "Be warned, we’ve got our eye on you."

As the Washington Post’s William Booth reports, the two residents were found strung by their arms and legs from a pedestrian overpass on Tuesday morning, just across the Texas border in the industrial city of Nuevo Laredo. Their bodies showed signs of torture. The woman was disembowled.

The banner, which was signed "Z," made clear that the people behind the crime were likely the Zetas—one of Mexico’s biggest and most violent drug cartels. The victims’ offense? Saying too much about the Zetas online...

...Americas Quarterly reports that Mexican civilians have recently taken to reporting dangerous areas occupied by drug cartels along the country’s highways in real-time using Twitter.

But Wired points out that this kind of reporting also comes with risk—last month, rumors about gang attacks in the city of Veracuz spread on Twitter led to panic and the arrest of two people accused of “terrorism and sabotage."

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