Drug war: Mexican police during a raid on cartel suspects in Mexico City (Reuters)(Photo from ABC.net (Australia))
Mystery Man Blamed For Gruesome Tijuana Deaths
-- L.A. Times
-- L.A. Times
Teodoro Garcia Simental is believed to run a network of hide-outs where kidnap victims are caged. And he is said to be behind most of Tijuana's gang war bloodshed.
Reporting from Tijuana -- He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye.
Teodoro Garcia Simental is among the best known but least identifiable villains in Mexico's drug war, blamed for a trail of terror across Baja California.
His heavily armed hit men, authorities say, have been leaving the gruesome displays of charred and decapitated bodies across the city, signed with the moniker "Tres Letras," for the three letters in "Teo." And authorities believe he runs a network of hide-outs where kidnap victims are held in cages.
Yet thousands of police officers, soldiers, state and federal agents can't seem to find him.
Billboards showing Tijuana's most wanted kidnappers don't include Garcia's image, even though he is believed to be behind most of the gang war that has claimed more than 400 lives here since late September.
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My Comment:Mexico's drug wars are going to go on fo a long time. Mexico's military is predicting a year to two year conflict. If Colombia can be used as a reference point .... this war will probably go on for a very very long time.