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There's a lot going on in the border towns that we know nothing about.

I work down there. I hear the rumors.

Don't just leave your comment hanging out there: what do you hear?

If you work in South Texas long enough and gain the trust of some in the Mexican communities, you hear rumors of connections in drugs and terrorism.
I don't want to take it any further than that.
I would never divulge my sources, and I can't back it up without doing that.

This is a big problem on the border. There have been a lot of drug related killings this year. So many that the US has put out a warning to Americans crossing into Mexico. The Mexican govenment is furious to say the least. They, the Mexican Government, claims this is all America's fault. They claim that if we didn't demand drugs, there wouldn't be a problem.

For those of you interested go to http://www.el-universal.com.mx then click on the left corner English. There is a huge article about this problem.

There are rumors and true events that you hear about living on the border --- if you talk with Mexicans. It's funny because most of the Americans living here could care less, it's pretty peaceful on the USA side. One of the cleaning ladies was telling me about a drug lord going into a night club with his woman friend --- very attractive. He left the table for a few minutes and some guys started flirting with her --- apparently just harmless flirting. The drug lord saw it, then the nightclub owner told the 4 men to leave and be very careful but to get the heck away. They did but were gunned down on the street while leaving. I checked the Mexican newspaper --- and sure enough --- there was an article about 4 men getting hit in a drive-by shooting after leaving a night club.

Other interesting rumors --- Amado Carrillo Fuentes they say is still alive --- that the 4 plastic surgeons who supposedly killed in in a lipid suctioning procedure and not much later were found executed on the side of a highway really had done a different procedure on him to give him a new appearance so he could avoid arrest. In Mexico --- anything is possible.