Posted on 01/01/2006 6:14:00 AM PST by servantboy777
Nuevo Laredo Sees Another Homicide
The murder count in Nuevo Laredo continues to climb.
The latest homicide was discovered Monday evening. A man believed to be a municipal employee was found murdered with a bullet wound to the head at around 6:00 in the evening.
The body of Hector Cuellar Torres was found near a ditch by the Piedras Negras Highway after Mexican police received a tip from an unidentified caller.
The man had been shot once in the back of the head with a small caliber weapon.
This brings the body count in Nuevo Laredo to 176 for the year
How sad. Used to go down there at least once a year. Don't see that happening again anytime soon.
The United Staes bordering Mexico is so much like Israel bordering that other ungodly-chaotic land, Gaza. What an analogy.
Well put. Mexico is an amazingly corrupt country, not just the border towns, but up into the Federal government.
Fox continues to come out against American immigration policy and we here very little from our own officials.
We should demand REFORMS in Mexico. We should use the same muscle to force change in Mexico as we do half way around the world.
My cousin lives just across the border in Piedras Negras, she's married to a Mexican national. She's alway inviting us to come visit their ranch saying, she feels safer there than here. We're not quite ready to visit just yet.
I used to live in Arcadia, Florida. There were many migrant farm workers in the area. It was a small town of 5,500 people surrounded by orange groves. About once a week a migrant farm worker would be found dead in an orange grove, usually dead of knife wounds. Very high mortality rate for such a small town.
It's kinda the luck of the draw. I've been to Mexico many times and have never experienced any problem personally. My latest visit was Cancun.
When we arrived home, we found an article reporting 8 execution style murders in Cancun city very close to where we were staying.
I concur.
Talked my son out of taking a job with a computer
company then located in Mexico about 45 minutes
south of Yuma, where his inlaws live.
Americans disappear along that road every year.
It's also the road people take to Rocky Point.
yea no kidding. Do ya remember the young man that disappeared while partying down in Laredo? He left the main street to use the restroom (probably in an ally)and was abducted by that witch cult.
He was found later sacrificially murdered in the desert. He was on my brother's baseball team when we were youths.
Scary
"Scary"
I think I remember the witch cult
thing. So sorry about your brother's
team mate.
I live in Phoenix, but I quit going to
Mexico decades ago.
My father in law, Houston business owner, dead since '79 always said "do NOT invest any money in Mexico". We used to go there fairly often on vacations, but we don't go there anymore.
"We used to go there fairly often on vacations, but we don't go there anymore."
I chartered with a local company several years ago. The pilot told me he was still a wanted man in Mexico because, years before that, he was hijacked by his passengers into Mexico. Kept him blindfolded for several days, but they did give him food and water.
One morning, he woke up and couldn't hear anything or anybody. That scared him worst than anything that happened so far. Finally got the nerve to remove his blindfold. Whoever the hijackers were and what purpose they had in the hijacking he never has found out.
But, the Mexican government issued an arrest warrant for bringing an untariffed aircraft into the country. His charter company had to hire a gang of Mexican attorneys and pay tons of Mordida just to get him back. The Mexican officials refused to quash the warrant.
I asked him if he was concerned that the same thing might accidentally happen and he could spend the rest of his life in Mexican prison. The pilot said he would not live his life in fear of the Mexican government. (I think I might've.)
"Philliman on the last day gave a tearful blessing to our family."
Some of the best people in the world live in Mexico. It's too bad they have to live under such a corrupt and foul government.
When I was a kid, we had a team from Tijuana come up to play us. They had pathetic little uniforms and their catching equipment was honestly dangerous. We probably beat them 145 to nothing, but everyone including us were rooting for them. They played their hearts out. When the game was over, we had a gift exchange. They had little packages of candy or toy rings and stuff to give. We gave them really nice things. They almost cried when they saw the gifts.
Best kids in the world. Couldn't even speak with them to get an address or anything, and we couldn't have read each others' letters. Quite an experience.
There are lots of horror stories about Mexico. My husband's uncle died in Cozumel of natural causes. He was dumped into a cooler and the family had to pay off to every single official in Cozumel before they could get him back here for burial. They didn't even have the courtesy to lay him out straight and he wouldn't fit in a standard casket. The extra large casket wouldn't fit into the company plane that was sent down for him first and they had to get a larger plane. It was a nightmare!
"There are lots of horror stories about Mexico."
LOTS of horror stories.
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