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.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Nuevo Laredo handcuffed by drug trade

Traffickers imposing will in border town
11:15 PM CST on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
acorchado@dallasnews.com
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – The evening calm here is deceiving.

As dusk settles, folks gather and mill around the town square, as they do in town squares throughout Mexico. But soon the talk turns to the latest deadly incident, this week's ambush of a federal congressman, which left him seriously injured and his 31-year-old driver dead. And the inevitable question arises: Is it too late to save Nuevo Laredo?

"You look around here, and nothing seems real anymore," said Mari Moreno, whose sons live in Irving. "You do your best to get through the day, but you know this city will never be normal again."

More than three years after warring drug cartels launched a battle for Nuevo Laredo and its smuggling routes into Texas, senior U.S. law enforcement officials say the Gulf cartel and its enforcers, the Zetas, have established significant control over the beleaguered city.

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