Mexico’S Border Violence And The Security And Prosperity Partnership

    A U.S. State Department alert, listed as “current as of today, Tue May 20 09:15:37 2008,” warns Americans that “foreign visitors and residents, including Americans, have been among the victims of homicides and kidnappings in the border region…. Armed robberies and carjackings, apparently unconnected to the narcotics-related violence, have increased in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped and/or murdered in Tijuana in 2007.”

    Follow this link to the original source: "Travel Alert"

    Lou Dobbs reported yesterday on still more gangland-style executions along the border, one of them an American.

    Because of the recent surge in violence, Newsweek interviewed “Roberto” (not his real name), an American living in San Diego, to recount his story while he was visiting family in Tijuana in the summer of 2005. “[A] group of approximately 20 masked [and armed] men burst in suddenly” in the home, claiming to be Mexican police. Grabbing “Roberto as well as another family member and a close friend,” they were blindfolded, tied up and thrown into a car, which sped away:


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