tacitus
06-17-2005, 06:38 PM
Mexico: The Civil War Next Door (http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=7787)
Posted Jun 17, 2005
As illegal aliens continue pouring in massive numbers across the U.S.-Mexican border, the region on the Mexican side of the frontier has turned into a war zone. The combatants include rival drug cartels and local and national police forces that battle among themselves.
The casualty count is already high and quickly mounting.
So far this year, says the Dallas Morning News, 600 people have been killed in Mexico in connection with the drug trade. Most have been killed in regions near the border.
The most notorious recent murder was the assassination of Alejandro Dominguez less than seven hours after he was sworn in as the uncorrupt chief of the thoroughly corrupt police force of Nuevo Laredo, a town across the border from Laredo, Tex.
Dominguez lived on the U.S. side of the border, worked as a small businessman and served as president of the Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Commerce. He assumed office at 1:59 p.m., June 8. “My duty is to the citizenry. I think those who should be afraid are those who have been compromised,” he said. At about 8:30 p.m. he was targeted by a fusillade of at least 35 bullets as he left his Mexican office to return to the U.S. for the evening.
Posted Jun 17, 2005
As illegal aliens continue pouring in massive numbers across the U.S.-Mexican border, the region on the Mexican side of the frontier has turned into a war zone. The combatants include rival drug cartels and local and national police forces that battle among themselves.
The casualty count is already high and quickly mounting.
So far this year, says the Dallas Morning News, 600 people have been killed in Mexico in connection with the drug trade. Most have been killed in regions near the border.
The most notorious recent murder was the assassination of Alejandro Dominguez less than seven hours after he was sworn in as the uncorrupt chief of the thoroughly corrupt police force of Nuevo Laredo, a town across the border from Laredo, Tex.
Dominguez lived on the U.S. side of the border, worked as a small businessman and served as president of the Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Commerce. He assumed office at 1:59 p.m., June 8. “My duty is to the citizenry. I think those who should be afraid are those who have been compromised,” he said. At about 8:30 p.m. he was targeted by a fusillade of at least 35 bullets as he left his Mexican office to return to the U.S. for the evening.