GUATEMALA city - attackers killed at least 29 people - beheaded most of the victims - on a ranch in a part of the North of the Guatemala plagued by the drug cartels, the national police said Sunday.
The massacre took place early Sunday in the town of Caserio La Bomba, in the province of Peten near the Mexico border, according to the National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez. Among the 29 dead were two women and two children.
It is one of the worst massacres since the end of the civil war of the Guatemala 36 years in 1996.
Gonzalez said police are investigating whether the attack is related to executions on Saturday in the Peten Haroldo Leon, the brother of boss Guatemalan drug Juan Jose "juancho" Leon argued.
Leon "juancho" was killed in an ambush that the Guatemalan authorities accuse Mexico of Zetas drug cartel, which snatched control of the drug outside the Mexico trade, more times by eliminating their competition in 2008.
Guatemalan police said the victims of the massacre Sunday were tied and their bodies showed signs of torture. They were believed to have worked on the farm. The police found a message written in blood at the scene saying: "Salguero, we're coming for you." Police did not say who was Salguero.
The soldiers said authorities were the search for the unidentified attackers box and offer a motive for the attack.
"It is a terrible event that we must clarify and investigate without taking into account the consequences, one who is the author of this massacre," said the Attorney General of Guatemala, Claudia Paz y Paz.
Later Sunday, the authorities said they had found one injured survivor of the massacre, which remained a living pretending to be dead. But officials released no details of what the survivor.
The Guatemala is a major drug transshipment point, the US State Department said in its last report of narcotics. Its low enforcement, rampant corruption and the proximity to the Mexico attracted of the Mexican drug cartels in its border regions.
In February, the Government lifted a State of long two months of siege he had stated in the province of Alta Verapaz, which neighbouring Peten province, where security forces have been sent to quell the violence related to the drug.
State of siege has given to the army of the powers of emergency – including the authority to detain suspects without a warrant - and allowed the arrest of at least 20 suspected members of the Zetas.
The Zetas are a group of former soldiers who began as killers of the Mexico Gulf drug cartel break on their own, quickly becoming one of the Mexico more violent organized crime groups and spread terror in Central America. They are known for their brutality, including decapitation rivals and officials. Authorities have linked to a series of massacres and mass graves North of the Mexico.
The Zetas began cocaine controlling trafficking in the region of Alta Verapaz in 2008 after killing Leon "juancho".
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