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Drug wars push Mexican news CEO to Texas
UPI ^ | March 25, 2010

Posted on 03/25/2010 10:14:24 PM PDT by myknowledge

SAN ANTONIO, March 25 (UPI) -- The chief executive of Latin America's largest newspaper company says he moved himself and his family to Texas from Mexico out of fear of ruthless drug gangs.

Drug-related violence, from Reynosa, Mexico, and elsewhere along a long stretch of border from Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros, is bloody and frightening, but "intimidation is the most frequent form of what takes place in the media," Grupo Reforma President and CEO Alejandro Junco de la Vega said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News.

Traffickers go after the media with a vengeance in strategic border towns where drugs are smuggled by the ton, brazenly shooting up newsrooms and kidnapping and killing staff members, journalists say.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: drugwars; newsceo; refugees; texas
The Mexican drug cartels are as ruthless as ever, even toward news CEOs...

I hope God protects this guy and his family from the cartel thugs.

1 posted on 03/25/2010 10:14:25 PM PDT by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

Do you think he crossed illegally?


2 posted on 03/25/2010 10:26:21 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: myknowledge

Feel sorry for the family he moves next door to. Yikes!


3 posted on 03/25/2010 10:51:22 PM PDT by steelwheels
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To: myknowledge

I feel for him but at the same time I don’t. He and the rest of them need to go back and face their problems and fix them rather than seek cover here, they just bring their problems here. Those problems just don’t go away by themselves.


4 posted on 03/25/2010 11:04:15 PM PDT by rbosque (11 year Freeper! A true American is an armed American.)
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To: myknowledge

Great.....Obama/McCain/Graham can now give him amnesty...


5 posted on 03/26/2010 12:07:44 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (National Security begins at the Border)
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To: myknowledge

How did he get in so easily?


6 posted on 03/26/2010 3:35:43 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: raybbr

Simple. Just crossed the unguarded section of the U.S.- Mexico border.


7 posted on 03/26/2010 3:56:05 AM PDT by myknowledge (B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)
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