![]() ![]() ![]() The gang has been a longtime enforcer of the Gulf Cartel, whose battle against their archrivals - the ferocious Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel - has recently resulted in shocking gangland-style violence along the Riviera Maya, a sun-drenched stretch of beaches on the Yucatan Peninsula that is Mexico’s biggest tourist hub. ![]() The message threatened death to merchants who refuse to fork over bribes to the drug-trafficking gangs and was signed by Los Pelones - “the bald ones.” A day after the murder of two tourists in Tulum, Mexico, a group called Los Pelones posted a threatening, hand-written sign at a market there. The signs were photographed by a local citizens’ advocacy group, which posted them to social media. That’s where the foreigners, visiting the Malquerida Bar last month, had the bad luck of getting caught in cartel crossfire. “Attention merchants of Tulum … this was a warning,” said the sign, which went on to threaten “managers and owners” of bars and restaurants on the “Mini Quinta” tourist zone. The hand-printed signs, in neat block letters, appeared in the Tulum marketplace the morning after two tourists were shot dead and three others wounded at a roadside eatery in the bohemian Mexican resort town. ![]()
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