Collateral Damage: Mexico's wealthiest city struggles with new violence

 AFP: Mexico's wealthiest city struggles with new violence: "Inhabitants of Mexico's wealthiest city of Monterrey once feared Mexico City for its notorious crime, but some have now moved there to escape an explosion of violence at home.

Grenade attacks on police, bystanders killed in shootouts, and 'narcoblockades' -- when drug gang members steal cars to block roads -- shook the industrial hub and its northern state of Nuevo Leon last year, where total murders rose 300 percent to 828, with more than 500 blamed on drug violence.
Violence hit new levels this January, when 20 police were killed."