[SwinneySwitch]

"....drug-related crime hasn't let up since the "federales" arrived, and 31 people have been killed so far this year."

Baghdad on the Rio Grande!

[zeaal]

Town will implode in anarchy.

[AlaninSA]

Well, the federales and el ejercito are both assisting the drug dealers in running drugs north - even to the level of providing cross-border fire support...

What did the folks in Nuevo Laredo expect?

Competence and honesty from Mexico's law enforcement community?

[Froufrou]

Do either of you wonder why this hasn't received more national attention? Is it because Cheney went bird hunting?

[alloysteel]

The obvious conclusion is, that the "federales" are working in cahoots with the drug runners.

The local newspaper has chosen to report nothing, because of active threats against the reporters and the editor himself, and even a couple killings, if I recall correctly.

And once the local press is intimidated, there is little hope of exposure of the extent of the corruption.

A story that has been greatly underreported here in the US media.

[mtbopfuyn]

Eight months ago, President Vicente Fox sent soldiers and federal agents to take back from drug traffickers the city across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. But the killings continue and brazen attacks remain commonplace...because the soldiers kept marching north.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Second Mexican War

[WatchingInAmazement]

Mexico is Americas Palestine.

sigh