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, April 19, 2007

Newsman abducted in Agua Prieta

The Associated Press

Published: 04.19.2007

PHOENIX - A reporter for a small Mexican newspaper was kidnapped in front of the police station in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, Mexican law enforcement officials and family members said.

Saul Martinez Ortega, 36, was taken from his sport utility vehicle on Monday by men with assault-style weapons, said his brother, Edgar Martinez. He was a reporter for the Interdiario/El Centenario de Agua Prieta.

A spokesman for the Sonoran Attorney General's Office said that a milky powder believed to be used to dilute cocaine was found in his vehicle, plus ammunition, and that officials suspect he was involved in drug running.

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