Sobbing 'female cartel member' interrogated with plastic bag in chilling torture video
Two Mexican soldiers face charges after disturbing video surfaced of a suspected cartel member sobbing while a rifle is muzzled against her head before being brutally tortured.
In the video, a female soldier taps her rifle on the woman's head, making a similar sound of a weapon being chambered as the victim sits on the ground, barefoot and shaking.
The female soldier then steps back as a man in a blue police uniform removes the yellow cloth and pulls her hair back.
The unknown woman in the video is believed to be a member of the Mexican cartel. Photo: Breitbart
"Are you going to talk?" the solder can be heard asking before tightly wrapping a plastic bag around the woman's head.
The woman, who is sobbing throughout the ordeal, answers: "Who's Maria? I don't know her."
Almost immediately, the cartel woman begins to kick and moan as she struggles to breathe.
Yahoo7 chose to not show what happens next in the clip because it is too distressing.
It is the latest allegation of abuse committed by the authorities in Mexico and the defence ministry said they arrested an army captain and a soldier in relation to the video.
The footage was leaked to various Mexican news outlets and Breitbart news without information about location or events leading to the interrogation.
The female soldier tapped her rifle on the woman's head and made a sound similar to the sound of a weapon being chambered before placing a bag on her head. Photo: Breitbart
According to the ministry, the incident took place in February 2015 in the town of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, in the southern state of Guerrero, but that it only learned about it in December.
In a statement, they said the captain and the female soldier -who is part of the military police - were detained in January on charges of disobeying orders.
The case was shared with the attorney general's office.
An official at the attorney general's office could not immediately confirm whether an investigation was underway, or whether a police officer was involved in the abuse.
Police and troops have faced a slew of accusations of torture and other abuses since soldiers were deployed in the streets of Mexico to combat drug trafficking in 2006.
Yahoo7 chose not to show any footage past this point as it is too distressing. Photo: Breitbart
A soldier has been detained in connection with the February disappearance and murder of a civilian in the eastern state of Veracruz.
In a separate case in the same region, eight state police officers were charged over the January disappearance of four young men and a 16-year-old girl.
And in another high-profile case, a military court in October acquitted seven soldiers who were detained following the killing of 22 alleged drug gang members in the central state of Mexico in June 2014.
Authorities had initially reported the deaths as resulting from a shootout, but allegations of extrajudicial killings emerged later.
Three of the soldiers still face murder charges in civilian court for the deaths of eight of the 22 suspects.
