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Mexican narco-terrorists prey on U.S. citizens.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
While tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds, are being used to secure Iraq's borders, U.S. citizens living near the border with Mexico have fallen prey to agents of Mexican drug cartels. The last year has seen a "dramatically increased number of U.S. citizens who have recently been reported missing or kidnapped along the border, especially around Nuevo Laredo," reported the January 22 Washington Post dispatch from the Mexican border town. In December, "U.S. consular officials here issued a warning to the thousands of Americans who cross the bridge each week, including Mexican Americans visiting relatives or shopping and tourists on short sightseeing trips."
The Texas city of Laredo and its Mexican counterpart, Nuevo Laredo, "seem like one city ... connected by language, blood, culture and commerce," notes the Post. "About 40 ...
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...Brooks Sep. 7--NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico--The ghosts of...such as Tijuana. Nuevo Laredo is also Mexico's busiest commercial...Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful...maintaining a loose hold on Nuevo Laredo. The Cartel de Milenio...
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- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) August 7, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: Alfredo Corchado NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico _ New checkpoints were...other cities across Mexico. "Now we're going...the public," said Nuevo Laredo Mayor Daniel Pena Trevino...measures of Operation Safe Mexico, which have been gradually...
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- Magazine article from: The Geographical Review Curtis, James R. January 1, 1993 700+ words
...the United States-Mexico border are often referred...Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The goal...than the U.S. and Mexico" (Cutler 1991, 46...respective countries. Nuevo Laredo has emerged as the premier...for foreign goods into Mexico along the entire border...
- Mexico: Consulate reopens in Nuevo Laredo.
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack August 9, 2005 700+ words
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S...notoriously violent Mexican border town Nuevo Laredo has reopened after being closed for...reported Tuesday. In recent months Nuevo Laredo has become a hotbed of drug-gang...
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- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack July 27, 2005 700+ words
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, July 27 (UPI...walking the streets of Nuevo Laredo, near Texas, after having...Universal reported Wednesday. Nuevo Laredo is one of a number of...have been the focus of Mexico's efforts to crack down...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 22, 2006 700+ words
...around Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo where drug violence...Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said...been kidnapped in Nuevo Laredo in recent years...Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo _ came in response...when traveling in Mexico because of "the...
- U.S. Closes Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, amid Visa-Fraud Probe.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 30, 2003 700+ words
...the U.S. consul in Nuevo Laredo, told the San Antonio...visa appointments at the Nuevo Laredo consulate will be contacted...Armbruster said. He said the Nuevo Laredo consulate will continue...enforcement authorities in Mexico. To see more of the...
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- Magazine article from: Texas Monthly Balli, Cecilia August 1, 2005 700+ words
...and philosophized about Nuevo Laredo's crime problems in...violence that had gripped Nuevo Laredo since the summer of 2003...commercial port in all of Mexico," he said, blowing...Domingnez surprised the Nuevo Laredo business community when...
- Sony de Mexico plans to shut down maquila plant in Nuevo Laredo.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 8, 2007 700+ words
(From Corporate Mexico) Source: El Financiero - Negocios Sony de Mexico is analyzing to shut down its maquila plant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, because of the...electronic product maquila plant in Nuevo Laredo and they are thinking about...
- Look at Threat of Kidnappings Just Across Texas Border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
- News wire article from: International Wire February 1, 2005 700+ words
...S. issued a travel warning to Mexico, due to an alarming number of Americans...along the border, specifically in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo...narrow streets of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, searching for a daughter who has...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mexican narco-terrorists prey on U.S. citizens.(Insider Report)(Brief...