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)