OT: You know how people are screeching about how horrible ISIS/IL is. how they’re the worst, most brutal group ever? Yeah, they’re really disgusting, but the Mexican cartels have them beat in terms of brutality.

Someone (ww, I think) posted a link (tweet?) that went to an article at the NY Times about some students in Mexico that have been killed (or are missing):

The next morning, the corpse of a student was dumped on a major street. He’d had his skin peeled off and his eyes gouged out. It was the mark of drug cartel assassins.

Soldiers and federal detectives detained two alleged cartel hit men, who confessed they had conspired with the police to murder students. They led troops to pits on the outskirts of Iguala containing 28 charred corpses. Forensic teams are working to identify the bodies. A total of 43 students went missing that night, many last seen being bundled into police cars. […]

Out of curiosity I (foolishly) goggled mexican cartel assassination. The extreme levels of violence I saw doesn’t make ISIS any less reprehensible, but their scariness as bogeymen takes a back seat to the cartel guys, especially since the latter are much closer to home and have been killing people for years & years.