"His face was taped over, and they had cut off his hands and legs," she said.

The Austin American Statesmen posted an AP article entitled "Bullet-riddled Mexican city now a ghost town" by Mark Stevenson. You can read it here:

http://www.statesman.com/news/world/bullet-riddled-mexican-city-now-a-ghost-town-1068138.html

The first two grafs below, but you should click the link and read the whole thing...

MIER, Tamaulipas — Shell casings carpet the road outside a bullet-riddled subdivision on the outskirts of this colonial town in the Rio Grande Valley, abandoned by most of the 6,000 inhabitants after a nine-month battle by warring drug cartels.

Nobody lives in the 65 one-story white houses across the border from Roma, Texas, except the abandoned pets that roam the streets of the Casas Geo development. Like 90 percent of those who once lived in Mier, they have fled, to a shelter in nearby Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico's first such haven for people displaced by drug violence.

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Neighborly

While most people are aware of the violence happening in Mexico right now, the coverage in American medias is pretty minimal compared to the sheer brutality that the citizens, families, regular people have to deal with day to day. These are our neighbors, and its probably only a matter of time before the violence spills over onto our side, not to mention how for years the situation has effected the flood of families trying to escape and survive the ensuing chaos.



This video is riveting not because of the images it captures, but the war time sounds as the videographer ducks through the streets of Matamoros (across the Rio Grand from Brownsville, TX). The shoot outs heard here could be part of the fighting that took out cartel leader Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén. See Times article below for more.

From the NYTimes:

Drug Gang Chief Reported Killed in Mexico
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/americas/06mexico.html

Graves May Solve Mystery in Mexico (Acapulco)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/world/americas/05mexico.html



(Bernandino Hernandez / AP)