Best paid jobs in Mexico: hitmen, corpse dissolvers

Hired guns and people who make murder's evidence disappear by dissolving bodies in acid have become some of Mexico's best-paid jobs, with dozens of killings blamed on drug cartels every day.

That was the conclusion of criminal psychiatrists who recently held a conference in the Mexican capital.

The scientists focused on people like Santiago Meza Lopez, also known as "pozolero", a nickname grimly derived from a famous Mexican soup, who was arrested by authorities last January.