Authorities claimed they discovered six mutilated remains in a truck in southern Mexico on Thursday, as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused popular television shows of glamorizing the brutal drug trade.

Prosecutors said the remains were discovered in plastic bags inside a car in Chilapa, Guerrero, without verifying claims that the severed heads were placed on the top.

In recent years, as drug cartels strive to frighten their rivals, more disfigured remains have been discovered dumped in public or hanging from bridges in Mexico.

In January, ten dead were discovered in a sports utility vehicle abandoned in front of the governor’s mansion in Zacatecas’ historic district.

In June 2021, two heads and other human remains were left at polling stations in the border city of Tijuana on election day.

Since the government ordered the army to fight drug cartels in 2006, more than 340,000 people have been slain in a wave of violence across the country.

On Thursday, Lopez Obrador lashed out at Netflix-produced television shows, claiming that they painted a rosy picture of drug traffickers’ lives.

The shows feature “gangs of drug traffickers, with actors, men, beautiful women, property, the latest cars, jewelry, designer clothes, power,” he told reporters.

But they ignore “the destruction in particular of young people. And we are talking about thousands of deaths. In the United States, it’s a serious problem,” he added, referring to victims of drug overdoses.

Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 championing a “hugs not bullets” strategy to tackle violent crime at its roots by fighting poverty and inequality with social programs, rather than with the army.

He has asked the United States to invest in regional economic development instead of sending helicopter gunships and other weapons to take on drug traffickers.

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