A Mexican cartel assassin butchered one of his rivals, cut his heart out and took bites from it in harrowing footage posted online as a warning to other gang members.
It is understood that the mutilated corpse in the video belongs to a gunman working for the Sinaloa Cartel, whose former leader, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, otherwise known as “El Chapo”, is serving a life sentence in a US maximum security prison in Colorado.
Mexico’s most dominant and dangerous drug gang is now headed by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, known for keeping a lower profile than his predecessor, and Guzmán’s three sons.
The description for the video on the blog borderlandbeat.com reads: “A new video from the Mexican underworld has just surfaced online. For this broadcast a fallen Mayo Zambada gunman lies dead on the ground next to other deceased individuals.
“Deep cavity wounds have been made across his torso. A large fixed blade knife is suspected of having been used to remove several body parts. The shadow of a person swinging away to dismember a corpse off camera can be seen on the left side of the screen.””
The hitman dismembering the body is thought to be a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, whose leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, commonly referred to by his alias “El Mencho”, is the most wanted man in Mexico.
The video caption continues: “Kneeling above the mutilated corpse a Jalisco New Generation Cartel assassin takes several bites from a recently extracted heart.
“No sound accompanies this film. Just a message across the screen that warns of the fate of every Mayo Zambada operative who is caught by the CJNG.”
“Emojis have been carefully plastered across the first picture so as to hide the desecration of the captured enemies.”
While some blog users were horrified at the gory scene depicted in the video, many were not surprised.
One comment read: “‘A dance with the devil may last forever… #DrugsAreTheDevil.”
Another internet user said: “These sicarios can’t escape torture and humiliation even in death !”
