Collateral Damage: Drug War Forces Residents To Flee Mexican Town

Some first-person inteviews with the people who had to flee their home town of Ciudad Mier.

Drug War Forces Residents To Flee Mexican Town : NPR: "Warring Mexican drug cartels have claimed a new victim along the U.S. southern border: the town of Ciudad Mier. Constant gunfights and spiraling violence between rival drug gangsters have forced the evacuation of the Mexican town.

Refugees from the strife-torn community are huddling in a public shelter in a nearby town. The shelter at the Lions Club in the nearby border town of Miguel Aleman has become, in the words of Mexico's Proceso magazine, the first refugee camp of the Mexican narcotrafficking war." Nov. 15, 2010