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NUEVO LAREDO - Two men lost their lives a few hours apart in unrelated shooting incidents over the weekend. The shootings bring the death toll in this border city to at least 87 for the year. Jesus Guajardo street, between Mina and Gutierrez, was the scene of Saturday's shooting. The city's emergency response center, known as C-4, received a call at 8 p.m. concerning a body lying inside of an automobile repair shop in the Infonavit neighborhood. The body was identified as Eduardo Rodriguez Salinas, 28, by his wife, Rebeca Margarita de Salinas, 24. She reportedly told State Ministerial Police...

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...