In Jim Thompson’s cult crime novel, 1,280 Souls, nothing is what it seems. Neither is it in the crimes on the southern beaches of Oaxaca, with their unknown crime-reported chapters that include a bag with 16 hands inside.
What happened in recent days in one of Mexico’s most popular tourist spots would be the ideal setting for the perverse Sheriff Nick Corey to travel from Potts County, an imaginary town in the southern United States, to the neighboring state of Chiapas, where almost everything happens as if it were unimportant. How else can we explain that nine young people were tortured and murdered, shot to the head? And their bodies, their hands severed, were found by the National Guard between the seats and in the trunk of an abandoned vehicle on the highway between Oaxaca and Puebla, more than 400 kilometers from the place where it all began: Huatulco, an Oaxacan paradise on the Pacific coast, with 36 beaches and nine bays flanked by jagged mountains.
Source: elmundo.es
