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January 26, 2005

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Agence France Presse: Americans warned about dangerous US-Mexican border travel

 

 

"Violent criminal activity along the US-Mexico border has increased as a product of a war between criminal organizations struggling for control of the lucrative narcotics trade," the department said in a travel advisory.

 

“…But we wouldn’t want to actually step in and do something because it might offend the radical fringe,” the advisory’s author thought to himself…

 

For those living in towns near the Mexican frontier, border terror is nothing new. For many years already home owners and citizens have been living under the heavy hand of violence from Mexican nationals that would put Poncho Villa to shame.

 

 

UPDATE: Also see here.

 

UPDATE II: Newsmax reports on the rise in kidnappings and other gruesome cross-border chaos occuring in the past week,

 

Historically, drug-related violence was generally confined to the Mexican side of the border, the Post report disclosed. However that pattern is changing, advised officials.

 

Last weekend, for instance, in Laredo (on the U.S. side of the border) firefighters found the bodies of two young men, with hands bound, in the trunk of a car that had been set ablaze.

 

Also:

 

Border Officers: We Lack the Tools to Do Our Jobs (Newsmax)

 

The Prophetic Words of AFL-CIO Founder Samuel Gompers in a 1924 Warning to Congress

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Martin at January 26, 2005 05:52 PM

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