Cruel Mexico. Latin American drug war Execution of drug couriers

Mexicans have never been known for being law-abiding. Their national hero is a mixture of an American cowboy and a Caucasian horseman. A stern, dark macho in a sombrero and with a luxurious mustache launches a hurricane of lead at his enemies and disappears into the sunset. And on occasion, he goes into mortal combat for the happiness of the people against oppressors of all stripes, simultaneously robbing government caravans and the haciendas of respectable lords bristling with trunks.

Even before the appearance of the Spanish conquistadors, the Mexican soil was thickly saturated with blood. Now stronger, now weaker, it did not stop pouring here even for a day. In December 2006, a new round of violence and chaos began in Mexico, the end of which is not visible even through the most rose-colored glasses.

With good intentions

Drug cartels emerged in Mexico decades ago. Their ancestors began by supplying alcohol to their northern neighbor, exhausted by Prohibition, in the 20s.

The noir days of bottled moonlight, jazz, Tommy guns, hats and coats in the United States gave way to disco rhythms, afro hairstyles, distressed jeans, speedboats and packets of white Colombian powder marked “999”.

In the 70s and 80s, Mexicans lived modestly in the shadow of the powerful and prosperous Colombian cartels, engaged in transit for a small percentage. But one day, the US drug control department flew out from behind the hills with a cheerful roar and punished Escobar and other Colombians in the name of goodness and justice. And also for the sake of the sympathy of American voters, concerned about suspicious behavior and the persistent white coating under the noses of most show business stars.

“Yes, it’s just some kind of holiday!” - the Mexicans exclaimed. And they took matters into their own hands.

By the mid-2000s, Mexican drug mafias had come to dominate the underworld south of the Rio Grande. They more or less divided their spheres of influence, had strong mutually beneficial relations with the authorities and security forces, practically did not touch the civilian population and sometimes even drove out petty punks so as not to interfere with serious lords and dons doing serious business.


The flow of substances to the north steadily and confidently grew by leaps and bounds. The population was saddened by the extreme corruption and the merging of the authorities with the bandits. But the Mexicans were no strangers to this. Traditional, so to speak, values. Centuries old.

American alcohol producers began to sound the alarm: the target audience is smoking and sniffing! Washington decided to force the Mexican authorities and police to break away from exciting process counting drug lord dollars and doing something about this mess.

Otherwise it could turn out to be a bloody undemocratic regime. With all the consequences.

The Mexicans irritably answered the damn gringos: “Well, OK.” And from time to time they would arrange lazy shootouts with some cartel just for the sake of formality.

Meanwhile, in Mexico, the ambitious Felipe Calderon won the presidential election. He longed for loud and quick fame, as well as people's love. There were two ways: fight poverty and fight drug cartels.


Felipe Calderon

It seemed to Alderon that the second was much simpler. You send troops, they shoot and put everyone in prison. The masses rejoice, the Americans rejoice and send tons of investment.

And so on December 11, 2006, Senor Felipe sent federal troops to the state of Michoacan to defeat drug cartels. He had the best intentions, but the effect was like hitting a hornets’ nest with a brick.

Pandora's Box

Special operations, arrests and murders of cartel leaders destabilized a gigantic criminal system that was firmly ingrained into the body of Mexican society. The system of balancing interests that had been built over the years collapsed. Authoritative dons lost control, and in their place came desperate and frostbitten leaders who sought to rule and conquer while their neighbors were in chaos.


There were two main troubles.

First: drug cartels by that time numbered tens of thousands of active members. And hundreds of thousands - if not millions - profited from them: from beggars in the slums to representatives of the social elite.

While the drug lords remained cold war, it was quite tolerable. But when decapitated, destabilized and turned into a conglomerate of violent factions of the mafia, they began unlimited feudal wars over lands, cities, plantations and drug smuggling routes, countless people and entire states were affected.

Loyalty to one group or another has become more important for millions of Mexicans than nationality or religious affiliation. They kill and die for this.


Poems and songs are written and films are made for the glory of the cartels, their leaders and militants. And mafia coats of arms and symbols are worn with no less pride than the coats of arms and symbols of powerful dukes or counts in the Middle Ages.

Cartel battles take the form of small wars, often urban, but they involve hundreds of thousands of people. And even for an innocent person, a careless word is enough to disappear forever, sometimes along with family and friends.

The second problem: the quality of cartel fighters. Even before the start great war their leaders began to attract professionals from law enforcement agencies to create their own private intelligence services and special forces. The Mexican budget, with its eternal shortage of money and prohibitive corruption, pays ridiculous and sad salaries to the defenders of the state. But drug lords are ready to shower professionals useful to them with gold. The result is obvious.

heart of Darkness

It all started when the leaders of the El Golfo cartel, which traditionally owned the Gulf Coast, began to recruit the best specialists from police and military special forces into their service. From them gradually formed one of the most powerful, formidable and terrible private intelligence services in the world, known as Los Zetas.

Their fighters knew and were able to do everything that the Mexican special forces, who were diligently trained by American instructors to fight the cartels, can do. But at the same time they did not have any legal or moral restrictions - except for naked efficiency.


Armed "Los Zetas"

Soon Los Zetas became so strong that they declared war on El Golfo and turned into a new cartel.

In addition to the highest professionalism, which was head and shoulders above any other criminal organization and most units of the police and army, they relied on extreme cruelty.

What Los Zetas are doing to prisoners will make most terrorists in Syria and Iraq sick.

Their executions are comparable only to the methods of the dark elves from Warhammer - only, unfortunately, they are completely real. Being dismembered alive with a chainsaw is, so to speak, a special mercy.


Los Zetas were also big fans of documentaries.

The Los Zetas pros swept through Mexico like a legion of Night Lords.

La Resistance lives on!

In 2010, opponents of Los Zetas realized that they needed to unite against this threat.

The ancient and powerful drug mafia "Sinaloa" has joined forces with the barely holding enclaves on the coast of "El Golfo" and the recently emerged cartel in the southwestern state of Michoacan with the wonderful name "Templars".

The story of the Templars is typical, sad and instructive. Initially, they arose as a beautiful cartel idea with high moral values. They say, of course, we push coke, weed, heroin and methamphetamine - but we help the poor, fight street crime, keep order... and most importantly, protect peaceful cities from the horror of “Los Zetas”, which had already crossed the state line.


At first, residents of the state supported the Templars. This was a terrible mistake. The cartel leaders were unable (or perhaps unwilling) to maintain any semblance of the high ethical standards they claimed.

The failed “Robin Hoods” turned out to be perhaps the most frostbitten gang in Mexico.

They did not practice the terrifying and sophisticated execution methods of Los Zetas, but their numerous fighters perceived the residents of the state as legitimate prey. Michoacán has been gripped by the most unbridled Mad Max-style violence. Civilians were killed, robbed, raped in hundreds and thousands for the slightest disobedience or simply because they wanted to.

As a result, entire cities in the state rebelled. Desperate to wait for help from the thoroughly corrupt police and army, their residents armed themselves, created powerful self-defense units and began to exterminate Templar cells.


The Avengers of the People take matters into their own hands

Those trying to “restore order” (or rather, “drive the rebels into a stall”), the police were formally expelled from the cities along with their helicopters and armored cars. Anarchist self-government began to form in Michoacán, and it was noticeably more decent than in Father Makhno’s Wild Field or among the Spanish anarchists during the Civil War.

It didn't last long. The government was more afraid of the anarchist communes than of any drug cartel. The leaders of the movement were imprisoned. Some of the detachments reconciled with the police and received semi-official status. Some continued the fight, which required money, and they themselves did not notice how they turned into small drug mafias.


The taste for power led to the fact that more and more often self-defense units used force not against the Templar militants, but by dividing power, drugs and money, or oppressing their own neighbors. However, the Templars could not withstand the external and internal war and after a few years they finally collapsed.

Tradition, innovation and victorious humanism

More than a decade after the Mexican drug war began, the fight continues with no end in sight. But some trends are quite noticeable.

The fearsome Los Zetas have lost much of their once vast territory and now control relatively small tracts of land along the Gulf of Mexico. The bet on terror did not pay off: after the first victories, cartels, civilians, and the authorities and security forces rebelled against them.

War is war, money is money, but even by Mexican standards, the cruelty of Los Zetas turned out to be excessive.

And their once unsurpassed elite units have lost most of their experienced operators and commanders over the years of endless battles.

In turn, other drug mafias also recruited many professionals and created their own special services and special forces. The gap between the capabilities of Los Zetas and their enemies has narrowed.


This whole story is very reminiscent of Syria and Iraq a few years later. And the situation with certain lovers of black banners and high-quality video, banned throughout the civilized world: professionals died, and the atrocities not so much intimidated as enraged enemies near and far. The ending is a bit predictable. In addition, Los Zetas is now split into several warring factions, which does not increase their chances of revenge.

Now most of Mexico is controlled by an alliance: the old, venerable Sinaloa cartel and the young, ambitious Jalisco New Generation. They countered the Los Zetas terror with a combination of competent strategic planning and emphasized moderation in violence. Which, unlike the arrogant Templars, they managed to implement. To avoid competition, Sinaloa has focused on exports to the United States, while Jalisco is expanding drug smuggling into Europe.

"I am a cucaracha, I am a cucaracha..."

And the war continues. The cartels are at war with each other, and there is intense fighting between factions within them.

The government does not abandon attempts to defeat the groups, they respond with machine gun fire and explosives. In 2017 alone, and according to official data alone, more than 23,000 people died in this war.


Ladies from drug cartels diligently maintain Instagram accounts, where they diligently pose with a variety of weapons

IN last years More and more women are joining militants and cartel killers - there is little work, no money. And in their desperation and ferocity, the Mexican senoritas will give odds to many notorious machos. Mountains of corpses and wads of dollars are growing in the estates of drug lords, millions of destinies are broken due to drug use. And all this - to the cheerful tunes of “drug ballads”, glorifying “their” cartels and ridiculing the enemy’s.

The anthems of the terrifying Los Zetas could easily be mistaken for children's songs, comic ballads about frivolous lords and their branch-horned husbands, or rhythmic dance music to turn off the brain and turn on hormones.

No surprise, this is what Mexico is all about.

Here, bloody Aztec ferocity has long been inextricably fused with not even Spanish, but Italian frivolity.

Suffice it to recall the text of the once famous “Cucarachi”. In one traditional version of the text, the poor cockroach can no longer run because his legs have been torn to hell. In another version - because he smoked all the grass, but nothing else.

A bloody chainsaw massacre to the fiery rhythm of “Cucarachi” is perhaps the most accurate image of what is happening in Mexico. And there is no end in sight.

The war against drug cartels in Mexico has been going on for several years now, claiming many lives every day.

(Total 26 photos)

1. Doctors and nurses during a protest against violence in the Mexican town of Ciudad on December 7. On December 2, traumatologist and orthopedist Dr. Alberto Betancourt Rosales was kidnapped and his body was discovered two days later. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

2. A policewoman stands near a car abandoned by attackers suspected of killing two of their fellow officers in the city on December 6. One police officer was killed in the shootout. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)

3. The bodies of three young people killed by armed criminals in the back of a pickup truck in the city of Acapulco on December 5. During the first weekend of December, 11 people were killed in drug wars. (Bernandino Hernandez/AP)

4. A soldier accompanies Edgar Jimenez Luga, nicknamed "El Ponchis", during his presentation to the press in Cuernavaca on December 3. Soldiers arrested a 14-year-old drug cartel gang leader as he tried to cross into the United States. Jimenez - by the way, a US citizen - is suspected of participating in a drug cartel in the state of Morelos, consisting of several teenagers who brutally killed their competitors. (Margarito Perez / Reuters)

5. Members of the forensic team work at a mass grave in Palomas, Chihuahua, on the other side. national park Big Bend in Texas. Investigators recovered 18 bodies from 11 graves. (Reuters)

6. Mexican Federal Police escort 32-year-old Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, leader of the Aztec drug gang. The gang is suspected of several murders, with Gallegos being blamed for the murder of 15 young people in January this year during a party in Ciudad Juarez, as well as the murder of an American consulate employee in March. (Marco Ugarte/AP)

7. A Mexican soldier squats in a tunnel found under the Mexico-US border in Tijuana. US border agents have found a small tunnel under the Mexico-US border and seized a significant amount of marijuana from a warehouse in San Diego. About 30 tons of marijuana passed through this 548-meter-long tunnel, equipped with a guide system, lighting and ventilation. (Jorge Duenes/Reuters)

A forensic scientist applies "Damaged" stickers to a car window at a crime scene in Guadalajara on November 22. According to local media, three men in the car were killed by unknown assailants. (Alejandro Acosta / Reuters)

9. Christians pray for peace at Macroplaza in downtown Monterrey on November 13. More than 30,000 people have died in drug violence since late 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched his sweeping campaign against the cartels. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

10. Eight-year-old Galia Rodriguez, the daughter of reporter Armando Rodriguez, who died in Ciudad Juarez, came to the anniversary of his death in the journalist's park on November 13. Earlier this year, Rodriguez, who worked for the publication El Diario de Ciudad Juarez, was shot and killed by unknown drug traffickers. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)

11. A man walks past a poster hung by members of the Zetas gang on a pedestrian bridge in Monterrey. Zetas criminals posted messages between trees and over bridges in Reynosa and other cities throughout the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, celebrating the death of Gulf Cartel gang leader Ezekel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas, who was shot and killed by Marines the previous day. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

12. A forensic scientist examines a car containing the body of bodyguard Carlos Reis Almaguer on the outskirts of Monterrey on November 4. The bodyguard of the mayor of the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia Mauricio Fernandez was shot dead by unknown criminals. (Carlos Jasso/AP)

13. Relatives and friends attend the funeral of a drug war victim killed during a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)

14. People clean up the bloody courtyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez. Thirteen people were killed and 15 injured when the house was attacked at a teenager's 15th birthday party. (Raymundo Ruiz/AP)

15. Morgue workers place coffins in graves at the San Rafael cemetery on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez. The bodies of 21 men and four women killed in the drug wars were buried in the city morgue for months after relatives failed to come forward to claim them. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)

16. Confiscated weapons from members of the Zetas gang found in a horse trailer, including rifles with enhanced ammunition, grenades and various ammunition. As a result, two people were arrested. (Miguel Tovar/AP)

17. Soldiers unload 134 tons of marijuana intended for burning at the Morelos military base in Tijuana. Soldiers seized the drugs earlier in the week during a raid. Heavily armed soldiers raided several houses in a poor neighborhood of Tijuana. As a result, 11 people were arrested and the drugs were burned. (Jorge Duenes/Reuters)

18. People gathered around a dove of peace made of candles in the courtyard of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Eon during a protest against violence and in memory of the murdered student Lucila Quintanilla in Monterrey. Once an oasis of peace and tranquility, this one of Mexico's richest cities has now become a battlefield for bloody drug wars. (Edgar Montelongo / Reuters)

19. A forensic scientist looks at a package with a human head and a message in Tijuana. (Alejandro Cossio/AP)

20. Mexican police work next to the body of a murdered man in Ciudad Juarez. Since the government declared war on drug cartels in late 2006, 30,000 people have died. (Jesus Alcazar / AFP - Getty Images)

21. The bound bodies of 72 migrant workers at a ranch in San Fernando, Tamaulipas state. Marines discovered the bodies after several shootouts with drug dealers. (Tamaulipas "State Attorney General"s Office via Reuters)

22. Residents came to the funeral of the mayor of the tourist town of Santiago Edelmiro Cavazos in the city center. Drug traffickers have killed 17 mayors in Mexico since the beginning of 2008. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

23. Gold pistol with engraving and diamonds at the Drug Museum in Mexico City on August 18. In this unique museum you can see golden weapons, children's clothing with LSD stickers and religious paintings with cocaine. (Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP - Getty Images)

24. The grandmother of slain police officer Jose Ramirez cries over his body in Acapulco's Las Joya district on July 17. The attack also killed three of Ramirez's comrades. (Bernardino Hernandez/AP)

25. Security film at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez on January 31. Gunmen stormed a birthday party, killing 13 people, mostly teenagers. (Alejandro Bringas/Reuters)

26. Police officers work at the scene of a terrorist attack on the main road in the center of Ciudad Juarez on July 16. The criminals blew up a car near three patrol cars, killing two police officers and injuring 12 others. Another grenade exploded as medics and journalists arrived at the crime scene, leaving one person seriously injured. (Jesus Alcazar / AFP - Getty Images)

History knows many sophisticated methods of execution, from which we, modern people, involuntarily send shivers down our spines, and our hearts clench with fear. Just imagine what life was like for people from past centuries, who were subjected to inhuman torture for even the slightest offenses. Judging by how cruel these executions were, we can say that our ancestors were bloodthirsty and evil and invented new types of execution for their own entertainment.

Death under an elephant

IN South-East Asia Execution with the help of an elephant, which crushed the condemned, was popular. Moreover, elephants were often trained to act in such a way as to prolong the death of the victim.

Walk the plank

This form of execution - walking along a plank overboard - was mainly practiced by pirates. The condemned often did not even have time to drown, because the ships were usually followed by hungry sharks.

Bestiary

Bestiaries were popular entertainment during the Ancient Rome, when the condemned entered the arena against wild hungry animals. Although sometimes such cases were voluntary and entered the arena in search of money or recognition, mostly political prisoners who were sent to the arena unarmed fell to the mercy of the victims.

Mazzatello

This execution was named after the weapon (usually a hammer) used to kill the defendant in the Papal States in the 18th century. The executioner read out the accusation in the city square, after which he hit the victim on the head with a hammer. As a rule, this only stunned the victim, after which his throat was cut.

Vertical shaker

Originating in the United States, this method death penalty now often used in countries such as Iran. Although it is very similar to hanging, there is a significant difference: the victim did not have a hatch opened under his feet or the chair was kicked out from under him, but the condemned man was lifted up using a crane.

Flaying

Flaying a person's body was often used to instill fear in people, as the flayed skin was then usually nailed to a wall in a public place.

Bloody Eagle

The Scandinavian sagas described a bloody method of execution: the victim was cut along the spine, then the ribs were broken out so that they resembled the wings of an eagle. Then the lungs were pulled out through the incision and hung on the ribs. At the same time, all the wounds were sprinkled with salt.

Roasting rack

The victim was secured on a horizontal grate, under which hot coals were placed. After this, she was slowly roasted, often stretching out the execution for hours.

Crushing

In Europe and America there was also a method similar to Indian elephant crushing, only here stones were used. As a rule, such an execution was used to extract a confession from the accused. Each time the accused refused to confess, the executioner added another stone. And so on until the victim died from suffocation.

Spanish tickler

The device, also known as a cat's paw, was used by executioners to tear and skin the victim. Often death did not occur immediately, but later as a result of infection in the wounds.

Burning at the stake

Historically popular method of capital punishment. If the victim was lucky, he was executed at the same time as several others. This ensured that the fire was much larger and that death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning rather than combustion.

Bamboo

Extremely slow and painful punishment was used in Asia. The victim was tied over pointed bamboo shoots. Considering that bamboo grows phenomenally quickly (up to 30 cm per day), it grew directly through the victim’s body, slowly piercing it.

Buried alive

This method has been used by governments throughout history to kill convicted prisoners. One of the last recorded cases was during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, when Japanese troops buried Chinese people alive.

Lin Chi

Also known as “death by a thousand cuts,” this form of execution involved cutting small pieces from the victim's body. At the same time, the executioner tried to preserve the life of the victim as long as possible.

Colombian tie

Drug cartels in Colombia and elsewhere Latin America practice similar executions of traitors who give information to the police or competitors. The victim's throat is cut and the tongue is pulled out through it.

A feared female drug cartel leader known for kidnapping victims and dumping their dismembered bodies on the doorsteps of those killed has been detained in Mexico after her lover, horrified by the monster she had become, turned her in to the police.

Melissa "La China" Calderon, whom her boyfriend and deputy Pedro "El Chino" Gomez calls a "maniac," is accused of killing 180 people. A top female drug trafficker was captured on Saturday after El Chino handed over information, including the secret burial sites of his girlfriend's victims, to authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda, 30, known as "La China" (Chinese), became involved in organized crime in 2005 when she began working for the Damaso drug cartel. This criminal organization has ties to the Sinaloa cartel, which operates in the Mexican state of Baja California - one of the country's main regions for drug smuggling - and is led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who recently escaped from prison.

Known for her ruthlessness and brutality, she was appointed head of the cartel's armed wing in 2008. Her power extended to the city of La Paz and the popular tourist resort of Cabo San Lucas, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.

During the seven years she led the cartel's armed wing, the murder rate in the state of Baja California Sur tripled. La China became notorious for abducting its victims from their homes and then dumping their dismembered bodies on doorsteps as a warning to local communities.

When she was asked to resign from her position in the Damaso cartel, she fled and declared war on her former associates. To motivate the gang members, La China ordered bags of cocaine to be distributed to them. Rogelio "El Tyson" Franco (left) headed up logistics, Sergio "El Scar" Beltran (center) became the main killer, and Pedro "El Peter" Cisneros (right) oversaw drug sales and body disposal. In addition, La China had more than three hundred street drug dealers and fighters who rode red motorcycles to identify themselves.

La China paid great attention to safety and constantly changed cars and location. In early August, fearing that her vehicles had become known to authorities and were being tracked, La China ordered logistics specialist El Tyson to buy a pickup truck. El Tyson sent two friends of his parents to La Cina who wanted to sell the car, but she killed them without paying anything. El Peter buried their bodies in a secluded area north of the city.

When El Tyson arrived on the scene and saw his innocent friends brutally murdered, he became angry and threatened to go to the police. In a fit of rage over her perceived betrayal, La China cut off El Tyson's forearms before killing him.

Shortly thereafter, master assassin El Scar killed his favorite prostitute after she refused to continue her relationship with him due to his violent sexual tastes.

The last straw was the failed attempt to kidnap El Tocho, a member of the Damaso drug cartel, who was fighting for La China territory in La Paz. The bandits managed to detain his girlfriend Lourdes, whom La China brutally tortured, trying to find out information, and then killed.

After this, El Chino, the lover of the head of the drug cartel, shocked by her cruelty, left the gang and was soon captured by the police. During questioning, he described how La China's behavior got out of control. His words were soon confirmed by El Peter, who was detained a week later. El Peter showed the police the location of the secret burials.

La China was arrested without firing a shot on Saturday, September 19, in international airport Los Cabos, during an attempt to flee the country. She was taken to prison in La Paz, a city she controlled only three months ago. La Cina is currently being interrogated in Mexico City and will stand trial next year for more than 150 murders.

The mafia and gangster groups of the countries of the world carefully observe their laws and customs - after all, these are theirs business card, which distinguishes them from ordinary street robbers and helps them remain known in certain circles, which means fear, respect, and therefore money. When threats and intimidation do not work, the mafia immediately executes the person, reminding him that there is nothing personal - “just business.” Types of executions also have a peculiar style, it can inform both about the criminal group that ordered it and about the identity of the killer, and sometimes it will be easy for an initiated person to understand by whom and for what the unfortunate person who dared to somehow harm the criminal clans was killed.

Italian mafia

The sultry Sicilians, Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, and their American followers went down in history as the most inventive "classic" criminals in dealing with their enemies.

Their championship is held by strangulation with a garotte - a special noose with handles, made in the form of a very thin rope, most often a string. It is interesting that such an execution was not applicable to everyone, but only to family members, or those who were previously respected, but had lost this attitude.

For ill-wishers, “cement boots” were simpler. As a rule, the mafiosi always protected a couple of construction unions they knew, so it was not difficult for them to get a basin and cement. The victim was placed in a basin, filled with cement, waited until it hardened, and sent to the nearest pond “to the fish.”

A rat in the mouth is a terrible type of execution that was carried out on “informers.” Anyone who violated the law of “omerta” was tied to a chair, a rat was stuffed into his mouth, and then his mouth was sealed with tape. The victim suffered terribly, and if she did not die from painful shock, then she was finished off with a firearm.

Yakuza

Influential Japanese mafiosi, as a rule, do not create chaos at first, but chop off the tip of the little finger for a minor offense. If a member of the clan has committed another offense, the phalanx is cut off, and so on in an ascending manner, until the poor fellow realizes that the next severed piece may be his head.

As for instant executions, here the Yakuza big variety: Sepukku is still in use among high-ranking clan members, beating with bamboo sticks and even execution with a historical overtone: strangulation with a silk cord.

Triad

In the Triad, the most exotic method of execution is considered to be “Ling Shi” - continuous death or “death by a thousand cuts.” The essence of the method is small cuts throughout the body, like from a sheet of paper. The executioner must have a special skill, and not allow the victim to die quickly from painful shock or make a cut too deep and allow the victim to bleed.

By the way, Confucian teachings suggest that if a person’s body was severely cut before death, then in the afterlife he will no longer be able to be whole - so for believers in China this type of execution was considered the most terrible.

Brazilian and South African mafia

The African necklace is a terrible torture that is still used to execute people in Brazil and South Africa. A rubber tire filled with gasoline was placed on a person's chest, after which the gasoline was set on fire. The burning rubber of a tire, which burns for a long time, hotly, and besides, due to gasoline, melts at twice the speed, turned the human body into a molten mass.

Painful death and a terrible sight are exactly the effect that brutal black gangs are counting on.

Russian, American mafia

Burial alive is an execution that dates back to ancient times, and was widely used even at the beginning of the 20th century. The Russian and American mafia have adopted this experience, and if the former goes and buries its competitors in forest plantations, the American mafia takes its enemies to the desert, throws a shovel at their feet and orders them to dig at gunpoint.

They still argue: putting a flashlight and a flask of water in a boarded-up coffin is considered mercy or cruelty, because this only prolongs the torment, while not everyone can refuse the last sip of water that is at hand.

Colombian mafia

It is extremely difficult to find traitors and informers among members of the Colombian mafia, because in the case of “leaking” information, the victim’s throat is cut and the tongue is pulled out, which is called a “Colombian tie.”

Mexican drug cartels

Mexican drug cartels are sadists, and dying from a bullet is considered a gift and an easy death among them. For example, they have a large arsenal of executions by our smaller brothers, from being bitten by poisonous snakes, torture by scorpions, to sticking heads into a hive of hornets.

However, the most “honorable and brutal” execution is considered to be chopping with a machete, when the victim’s arms and legs are successively chopped off, the stomach is ripped open and, finally, the head is cut off.

 

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