News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

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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