| Description: | New gangland slaughters surge in Mexico
After weeks of relative calm following Mexico's July 1 presidential elections, gangsters have unleashed havoc once again across much of Mexico.
Gunmen massacred eight people in a downtown Monterrey strip club before dawn Tuesday, the latest in a string of gangland atrocities sweeping northern Mexico in the past week.
The slaughter at the Matehuala bar officials said the victims were apparently employees of the joint follows the weekend gangland execution of the mayor elect of Matehuala in San Luis Potosi state, a crossroads town on the Pan American highway that in more innocent times was a popular stopover for Texans driving to San Miguel Allende and other central Mexico destinations. Sunday. His killing followed those last Friday of at least 21 people 14 of them apparent residents of the border state of Coahuila whose bodies were left abandoned in a sport utility vehicle outside the city of San Luis Potosi, the state capital.
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