KIAH TV Houston: From a small hill at a state park here, the border town of Palomas,
Mexico, can be made out through the desert haze. It lies four miles to
the south, but the corruption that roils Palomas and the rest of
Northern Mexico may as well be a block away.
Last year, black sedans and hatchbacks loaded with
federal agents poured into Columbus, a town of 2,000 people, arresting
the mayor, the police chief, a city trustee and nine others. They have
all pleaded guilty in a gun-smuggling operation that sold about 100
firearms, mostly assault rifles, to Mexican drug cartels."Unfortunately, the border is just one vast conspiracy," said Howard Anderson, the lawyer for former Mayor Eddie Espinoza. read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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