Seven bodies were found early Saturday in an abandoned taxi on the road from Manzanillo to the town of Cihuatlan. On the vehicle was a message signed by the increasingly powerful Jalisco New Generation drug cartel, he said. That cartel is blamed for a surge in murders in the tiny Pacific state of Colima, where Manzanillo is located. The past six months have seen an increase in killings linked to disputes within the Jalisco cartel, police records showed. In March and April 2015, the cartel killed 20 police officers in two separate ambushes in western Jalisco state.

Source: Hindustan Times January 23, 2017 04:00 UTC