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June 09, 2005

Nueva Laredo Police Chief Lasts Nine Hours

Nueva Laredo descends even further into anarchy as its brand new police chief is killed after nine hours on the job. NBC News in Dallas reports:

For weeks, no one applied for the Nuevo Laredo police chief job. Many saw it as a death sentence.

But Alejandro Dominguez proudly took office on Wednesday, saying he wasn't afraid of anything. Nine hours later, he was ambushed and killed by gunmen who fired some three dozen times.

Dominguez's violent death was the latest blow to Nuevo Laredo, a city across from Laredo, Texas, that has been crippled by a wave of drug violence. The city is on the front line of a turf battle between Mexico's two largest drug gangs, the Gulf and Juarez cartels. Since January, more than 60 people have been killed there, including several city police officers.

Mexico can ever improve itself with this level of corruption and lawlessness. This also shows how important it is to secure our border as soon as possible to keep these sorts of thugs out of the US.

Posted by Pete at June 9, 2005 08:08 PM

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Posted by: Sue at June 11, 2005 10:55 PM