Border Wars Grow Violent
TIJUANA, Mexico, Jan. 3, 2006
(CBS) It's become common in Mexico: torture, kidnapping, murder — more than 1500 drug related killings last year.
CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports it is a crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border — hyper-violent drug cartels dying to dominate the $140 billion drug trade.
They are fighting for access to the United States, says Baja Attorney General Antonio Martinez Luna.
"Because the market is on the other side," he said.
But the carnage is here on the streets of Tijuana. A journalist was gunned down in front of his children, the second from his paper, "Zeta," killed for writing about the cartels. We first met the paper's editor after he was ambushed six years ago. His is the only city newspaper that still goes after the cartels. He goes nowhere now without body guards.
Video interviews available at the CBS News site.
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