Men were equipped with machetes, hammers, and knives and told to kill one another in a “gladiator-style contest.”
The men who won these horrific competitions by stabbing, slicing, or bludgeoning their opponents to death were then often sent on kamikaze missions against rival gangs where they were drastically out-gunned and out-numbered, basically being sent there to die. The Los Zetas also figured some of the people on these busses they were hijacking would have to be enemy gang members, so it was like they were killing two birds with one stone (Except instead of birds, it’s a lot of innocent people.)
Check out a photo of all the gang members next to the weapons they seized on the next page:
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