Posted on 04/24/2006 7:41:50 AM PDT by Jack Black
Mexican city's journalists scared silent Rival Mexican cartels employ violence to ensure silence By Hector Tobar Los Angeles Times NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Here, it's better not to know.
Information can be poison in this border city. When there's a shootout downtown, even the most ambitious radio reporter will not necessarily rush to the scene.
So it went the day last month that four undercover federal police officers were ambushed and killed in thick lunch-hour traffic on the city's busiest street.
The offices of several newspapers and radio stations were just blocks away - but the news broke 700 miles to the south, on the Mexico City wire services.
The war between the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels has been blamed by Mexican federal officials for about 230 deaths in the last 15 months.
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Just like Columbia during the heyday of Pablo. I really don't think Pres. Fox will ever regain control...
Fallajah on the Rio Grande
FYI. A partial explanation for the desire of millions of Mexicans to move to the USA.
My interest began with a discussion over what constitutes civil war. Is Iraq really that different from Mexico? Why is one reported on incessently - "the breakdown of civil society, waring factions, civil war ... " and the other, much closer to home, is virtually ignored?
Socialism has failed in Mexico. Large majority of MSM sympathizes with socialism, and as citizens of the world, think America will be a better place with a huge, unassimulated, Democrat voting underclass.
"A large majority of the msm sympathizes with socialism...and think America would be a better place with a huge unassimilated,democrat voting underclass."Good point.Then the final step for the "new" America would be to eventually eliminate the right to vote all together and put our lives in the hands of folks like Kennedy and Kerry.That's scary!
I remember ten or twelve guys who went there on a weekend pass back in late 67 early 68...all came back with a serious 'dose'.
And some pretty wild stories....about the kinds of entertainment one could easily find there....
imo
Chances are he's in with the drug gangs up to his neck.
L
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