MEXICO CITY — • Five decapitated or mutilated bodies have surfaced around the capital in recent days in what authorities believe may be the work of drug smugglers retaliating for a major cocaine seizure at the airport last week.
The severed heads of two men who worked for a private customs broker turned up near Mexico City International Airport on Saturday.
Federal agents last Friday seized a half-ton of cocaine at the airport that had entered Mexico on a flight from Colombia. They found 500 packages of the drug hidden in a cargo shipment. Federal police arrested two airport workers — a customs agent and a forklift operator — as part of that bust.
Three more bodies were found this week on the outskirts of Mexico City — two of them headless and the third with his hands chopped off.
