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Drug gang zetas dumped five severed human heads in ice coolers on a road in western Mexico on Tuesday with a message threatening rivals, a state attorney general's office said.Police patrolling a highway on the edge of the Mexican colonial city of Guadalajara found the heads inside five coolers left on the roadside, the Jalisco state attorney general's office said."They were recently severed heads, cut off about four hours before they were found," a spokesman said, adding police found a message left by apparent drug hitmen threatening rival gangs. The victims' identities were not disclosed.Torturing and beheading rivals is common in Mexico's increasingly vicious drug war, which killed more than 6,000 people last year and shows no sign of abating this year despite the deployment of 45,000 troops across the country.President Felipe Calderon has centered his presidency on curtailing drug war violence and reforming corrupt police forces working in league with traf...

Hitmen from the Gulf cartel drug gang left a pile of 11 headless corpses piled up near the city of Merida and police say the victims were likely still alive when decapitated.Drug gunmen killed 13 people including a baby and a university professor at a party in the picturesque tourist town of Creel, breaking a taboo against killing children."You are seeing a deterioration, and a very drastic and violent terrorizing factor," said Fred Burton, an analyst for the U.S.-based Stratfor security consultancy.President Felipe Calderon, a strong-willed conservative, made the fight against crime his top priority when he came to office in 2006 but drug murders have soared to a record 2,700 so far this year in a war between gangs. August was the bloodiest month in three years of clashes that began when Mexico's most-wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman took on rival traffickers for control of smuggling routes. About 450 people were killed last month, most of them in the border ...