Bodies continue stacking up in Mexican drug violence

It seems like a day doesn't go by that we're reporting on the increasing violenc in northern Mexico as warring drug cartels are killing people -- including law enforcement officers -- at will.

The Deming Headlight reports that five men were killed across the border in Palomas, Mexico, on Sunday just two days after two other men were gunned down in that border city. It is across the U.S.-Mexico border from Columbus, N.M.

On Saturday, the No. 2 police officer in Juarez, Mexico, was gunned down in that city. His was one of several killings in the Juarez in the past week.

All this, despite the presence of thousands of the Mexican soldiers and military equipment who were dispatched to the border cities to help quell violence between warring drug cartels.

-- Lance Murray