When will the bloodshed end?

14 more die in day of raging violence in Tijuana.

TIJUANA – Police across Tijuana were on high alert as the region's continuing violence claimed 14 lives yesterday, including two state police agents, two victims who were decapitated and four apparently shot while walking.

The first Baja California state agent, Marco Cárdenas Carrasco, was killed about 8:30 a.m. yesterday while driving near the intersection of two major boulevards in eastern Tijuana.
Shortly after 3 p.m., Roberto Elizalde, a veteran agent who oversaw an office in the eastern Mariano Matamoros section, was ambushed on a major thoroughfare as he left his shift.

Yesterday's decapitated victims, both men, were discovered about 6 a.m. near the Otay Mesa border crossing, their bodies inside large plastic barrels, and their heads placed on the lids. They were not identified, but a handwritten message was left: “This is what will happen to those that hang out with the filthy Arellano Félix.” It was signed la maña, a term for mafia.

About 6:30 a.m., four unidentified male victims were found in Mariano Matamoros, on the side of a dirt road near a community clinic attended by dental students. They were between 20 and 25 years old.

Shortly after 5 p.m., two dead men were found inside a vehicle in a neighborhood west of downtown.

At 7 p.m., in the eastern area of Los Alamos, assailants shot four men, apparently while they were walking, the Attorney General's Office reported.

Law enforcement officials say most killings in recent weeks have been the result of battles among criminal groups seeking control of drug trafficking in the region.

From San Diego Union Tribune.