Posted on 07/19/2005 5:54:03 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO - Despite the presence of federal troops and state police throughout the streets, violence continues to plague the Sister City, with six homicides reported over the weekend, including that of a state police officer.
The death toll for the year, which still has more than five months to go, stands at 90.
The most recent victims were Víctor Manuel Castillo Andrade, 18, who died near midnight Saturday; Noe Vives, a state police officer shot dead Sunday night; and Arturo Puente Alonso, 28, killed early Monday.
Authorities had already logged three other deaths, one on Friday and two on Saturday.
Castillo Andrade died at Hospital General of wounds suffered during a shooting on Rió Eufrates street in the Voluntad y Trabajo No. II subdivision late Saturday.
Less than 24 hours later, the Infonavit subdivision saw the assasination of Vives, the police officer, who was a native of Nuevo Laredo. His age was not released.
The sixth victim of the weekend, Puente Alonso, was shot twice in the head and once in the abdomen when gunfire broke out in the Guerreros del Sol neighborhood in the western part of the city. The victim's brother, Luis Enrique Puente Alonso, was injured in the attack. He was in stable condition Monday night, officials said.
There were few details available in any of the cases, and officials said witnesses reported hearing gunshots but said they didn' t get a close look at any of the assailants.
Juan Antonio Jara Benavides of the justice department said investigations have begun in each of the cases; no arrests have been made.
The other three victims who died over the weekend were Luis Saúl Casanova Castillo, 44, who died late Friday night near the corner of Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez and Venustiano Carranza streets; and Jesús Cuahtemoc López Gloria and Abraham Roldan, both 18, who died Saturday when passersby strafed a gathering of young men. Three other teens were seriously injured in that assault; all were still in the hospital Monday night.
Meanwhile, new Police Chief Omar Pimentel said he is continuing his efforts to return city police to the streets as soon as possible. He said he has been reviewing individual officers' records to ensure that all meet the strict standards of education and integrity that he requires and that the residents of Nuevo Laredo deserve.
vicente fox must be VERY proud of the corrupt, lawless 'regime' he's in charge of....VERY PROUD!---lol
When was Mexico NOT like this? It's only a matter of time before the criminal gangs start this same tactic on Laredo's side of the border. When will we wake up? When a group of our cops are executed in the streets for not complying with the gang's orders?.....................
The streets are not safe enough for the cops?.......
The cops were a large part of what made the streets unsafe.
Everybody is just looking at Nuevo Laredo but it isn't any different in any of the border towns from what I understand.
Los Dos Laredos Ping!
We used to stay at la Posado in Laredo and go over to NL to shop in el mercado and the beautiful shops on the main drag. Eat at the Cadillac Bar but no more, what a shame.
NL Ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
Or the MOG.
Yeah, maybe so. TJ may not be quite as bad, but it's not so great either.
As late as 1999, we used to take the trip from Corpus to Laredo and park the vehicle to walk across the bridge and shop for the day. Lotsa fun back then. However, we never stayed overnight.
Now that I have a toddler, there is no way I would go to Mexico for a day trip - much less Nuevo Laredo.
Lots of people did that. Stuff is cheap over there now...
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