The questions are always asked:
1.) Whose to blame? The drug users?
3.) What can an individual do to help? Never use drugs from Mexico?
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The Mexican police and army are struggling to control armed drug cartels operating in cities across the country.
More than 28,000 people have died in the drugs war in Juarez since President Felipe Calderon ordered the army into the fight in 2006.
BBC News - Mexico violence: Monterrey police find 49 bodies
Mexico violence: Monterrey police find 49 bodies
Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico.
Security officials said the 43 men and six women had been decapitated and had their hands cut off, making identification difficult.
They blamed the killings on a conflict between rival drugs gangs - a note left with the bodies said they had been killed by the Zetas cartel.
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It is the latest in a series of recent massacres in northern Mexico.
Mexico body discoveries:
9 May 2012: 18 corpses found in two abandoned vehicles near Guadalajara.
4 May 2012: 23 bodies found in Nuevo Laredo
November 2011: 26 bodies discovered in Guadalajara, western Mexico
September 2011: The remains of 35 people found in Veracruz
August 2010 Bodies of 72 migrants from Central And South America found in Tamaulipas State
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The Zetas have been fighting the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels for control of smuggling routes into the US.
The grim find comes just days after police discovered the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 18 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico.
Earlier this month 23 dead bodies - 14 of them decapitated - were found in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, also in Nuevo Leon state.
Around 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed the army to combat the cartels.
