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Second Chapter: The Vandalism

The saturday 9th of april, in San Pedro, Nuevo León, MX early in the morning, in the streets of the city some walls appeared vandalized with texts about of a supposed criminal gang. But, from the beginning the situation looked strange, because that is not the habitual form a criminal gang works. Those texts said: CDN, C. D. N and Aquí andamos (We are here). The abbreviations CDN is a referencia of the Cártel del Noreste, a criminal gang that works in the mexican northeast. But, today, El Norte newspaper published an article about the case: The official report concludes that the vandalized houses and cars it was not a criminal gang action; and informed the investigation continues. As will be remembered, is an electoral year in Nuevo León, and San Pedro is one of the most important cities in the country.

A 'showy' crime story

First Act . On February 26, the mayor of the municipality of San Pedro in (Nuevo León, México. The richest city in Latinamerica), Miguel Treviño, told the media that it was likely that in the following days a "showy" violent event would occur in the town. Second Act. 17 days after Treviño's statements, in the morning, the strongest opposition candidate, Mauricio Fernández (former mayor of San Pedro on several occasions), appeared in an interview on Multimedios Televisión, where he criticized the management of security in the municipality . Third Act . Two bodies appeared inside a vehicle in one of the most crowded and 'showy' places in the municipality, the Rufino Tamayo Park. The bodies appeared in the afternoon, before 7:00 p.m. The first reports indicated that the bodies allegedly had traces of violence, and their faces were covered with plastic bags, and they also presented a certain degree of decomposition. The next day, it was learned that the bodies of the...