Drug war turns Mexico border city into ghost town – Laredo
Tagged: border, Mexico, sister cityPosted on: April 2nd, 2007“With heavily armed Mexican soldiers patrolling Nuevo Laredos graffitied, rubbish-strewn streets, Mario Cepeda is having a tough time convincing anyone to take his horse-drawn city tour.
Once an easygoing Mexican border town thronging with U.S. tourists, Nuevo Laredo is becoming a ghost town because of a brutal, three-year-old turf war between rival drug cartels that has driven residents and businesses across the Rio Grande to the safety and prosperity of its Texan sister city, Laredo.”
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