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Beheadings, Torture, and Bodies Stacked Like Cordwood in Mexico’s Gruesome Jail Wars

JAILHOUSE SHOCK

Inmates in an overcrowded Acapulco facility were beaten to death and decapitated in a turf struggle between rival gangs earlier this month. And that’s not the worst we’ve seen.

Jeremy Kryt

Updated Jan. 09, 2019 12:05PM ET / Published Jul. 15, 2017 12:01AM ET 
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Once in the Mexican state of Guerrero I met a sicario, or hitman, who went by the name of Chimino. At the end of a long interview Chimino told me how he had come to enjoy the work of killing and torturing people for the cartel called Los Rojos.

“The first time you do it... maybe you feel bad,” he said. “After the first time you start to like it.”

Chimino was a hard case. Worshipped the Santa Muerta (Death Saint), and knew his life would likely be cut short. And yet he did not worry about dying nearly as much as he feared being arrested, and a return to life in a Mexican penitentiary.

Jeremy Kryt

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