Collateral Damage: Refugees: no return to town hit by Mexico drug war

An AP reporter goes to take a look at the abandoned Ciudad Mier

The Associated Press: Refugees: no return to town hit by Mexico drug war: "While Mexicans increasingly have fled border towns up and down the Rio Grande Valley, Ciudad Mier is the most dramatic example so far of the increasing ferocity of war between rival drug cartels, and the government's failure to fight back.

The state and federal governments say it's safe to go back and that people are returning. One official even invited tourists to return. The scenes witnessed by The Associated Press say something else." Nov. 22, 2010